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Augmented reality has the potential to revolutionize learning in primary and secondary schools more than any other technology has done in the recent past.
Via Nik Peachey
A Diagram Of 21st Century Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff The modern learner has to sift through a lot of information. That means higher level thinking skills like analysis and evaluation...
Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson
Learning management systems, like Blackboard and Moodle, have helped educators manage assignments. However, the LMS can be an obstacle to letting students take their work with them while connecting to the greater world.
Want to bring technology into your classroom? Looking to discover new ways of creating meaningful learning experiences for your students?
This self-paced, online course is intended for anyone - of any technical skill level - hoping to use Google's educational tools in the classroom.
The Future of Technology Integration in Instruction Lies in Engaging and Empowering Teaching Methods Like These. As we head into this new year I'm excited
New "3 Minute Teaching With Tech" Tutorial Video Provides a Quick Intro to This Powerful Free Tool. Have you ever wished you knew how to easily add questions into a video to create lesson content or to help ensure that students are engaging with video content? Well, you can, for free!
Bill Gates is excited to launch a new free product called Graphite in collaboration with Common Sense Media. Graphite will focus on ratings and reviews for educational web sites, apps, and services.
Free, open-source, high-quality textbooks for your college course. THE RIGHT PRICE FOR STUDENTS The perfect price for a student budget: free. Web/PDF/EPUB copies are $0.00, forever, and printed copies ring up at just what it costs to make them.
reIt’s old news that simply getting devices for your classroom is not enough. But to many teachers, figuring out how to use the devices they have (or will have) can be overwhelming. This great infographic from Always Prepped outlines 7 lessons from teachers who use technology that we can all learn from, regardless of how much or little technology usage is happening in your classroom or school.
First and Foremost on Teacher's Minds - Getting Students to be More Self-Directed in Their Learning. On Sunday we published the first part of our recent survey On Sunday we published the first part of our recent survey results. Today we wrap it up with a look at responses to a question I posed asking about your biggest challenges. This question was not just about technology, but your overall teaching challenges.
Google is tackling the persistent need in education for better software with Classroom, a new tool launching in beta preview to help teachers make, collect and track student assignments, and to help them better communicate with their classes.
12 Ways To Share Almost Any File With Your Students As a 21st century teacher, you probably need to share stuff, and have stuff shared with. “Stuff” like pdfs, various word processing documents, video files, and other digital fare. The traditional way to do this has been email, but limits here–including speed, file size, and the relative clunkiness of sharing with large groups–make sharing files through email less than “best practice.”
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How To Design A 21st Century Assessment by Mike Fisher Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets: engaging 21st Century skills, using digital tools, collaborating with others around the globe, performance tasks, and more.
The problem with universal access to technology is the fact that it provides almost unrestricted access to information. Much of this information is fantastic and can give a real boost to the learning experience. The danger exists where there is mis-information, inaccuracies and worst of all information that might promote prejudice, discrimination, hatred and violence.
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A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by the New York Timesbestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element.
Getty There appears to be no shortage of new businesses looking to apply technology to education. An entire ecosystem has emerged in recent years to deve
25 Signs You Might Be A 21st Century Teacher
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies In Infographic Form
Google's free learning management system, Google Classroom, is now in full release and is being made available today to all Apps for Education customers.
Google offers a ton of solutions for students, teachers, and classrooms. Some products are intentionally designed for classrooms, others just happen to work well for that setting as well as many others.
The Google Apps For Education and Google Play for Education are two tools built for teachers and students that encompass a ton of different solutions for different types of work.The handy infographic below takes a look at some usage statistics on Google tools in the classroom along with a few tidbits about Apps for Education if you’re not familiar with them. Keep reading to learn mo
10 Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment Wherever we are, we’d all like to think our classrooms are “intellectually active” places. Progressive learning (like our 21st Century Model, for example) environments. Highly effective and conducive to student-centered learning. But what does that mean?
EDUCAUSE Review Online In the From Badges to Breakthroughs: Unleashing Learner Potential through Competency-Based Achievements panel session at EDUCAUSE 2013, various presenters explored challenging innovations related to prior learning assessments, badge frameworks, and verification of competencies as options for extending low-cost, quality educational opportunities for increasingly diverse student and instructor populations.
CAST today announced the launch of On Course, a collection of resources that help postsecondary educators and administrators improve instruction through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The online resource is provided at no charge to users at http://udloncourse.cast.org.
Paper outlines how the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended, and deeper learning.
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