ICT for Education and Development

When it comes to locating educational content for a PC-powered VR headset like a Vive, Rift or WMR, it can be a little tricky for three main reasons:
1. There are multiple app stores to find content and some of the content can only be found in certain app stores.

2. Not all the stores have an easy to find Education section.

3. Some content which would be great in the classroom isn’t actually tagged as educational.

Teach and learn practical digital skills using Google's free project-based video curriculum.

Google's free, video based computer science curriculum is designed for teachers with no prior CS knowledge.

Go back 20 years from now and one would have never complained about the flaws existing in the traditional education system as economy rolled out quite easily, societal need for drastic change was nimble and it could well meet the expectations of the world.
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But now it’s a different time altogether. Yes, the main reason why 21’st century education standards demand use of technology is mainly because, it helps to spur innovation and foster global economic competitiveness.

Education technology in colleges and universities is slowly making its way, and this being in almost every strata of learning. In the current digital age, there is a successful digital conversion of instructional strategies. Teachers are bracing up tech skills to innovate ideas and most importantly, implementation of such ideas is giving back real time benefits. So let’s find out examples of EdTech usage that can help universities connect their students.

Social media and the process of learning do blend better than anyone of us could have imagined. Who doesn’t like an innovative, creative way to work together? Social media not only helps the process of learning but also helps us to connect easier.

In this blog post I’ll talk about the most popular social media tools and how to use those social media tools in your classroom. Prepare yourselves for this social media guide for teachers.

Today, digital natives are both consuming and creating online or on their mobile phones constantly, and the literacy skills needed for an interconnected world have changed. They include the ability to navigate thousands of sources, locate quality information, evaluate fact from fiction, synthesize, and create and communicate perspectives in the appropriate way to diverse audiences.

To what extent are the literacy skills required for a new world more or less the same as they were before? Will new literate practices need to be generated and if so, what are these new literacies and how can they be learned?

Recent research from the likes of Bersin by Deloitte, Fosway and many more revealed the learning habits of modern professionals in 2018. The results paint a picture of employees adapting to cope with the fast pace of modern working life. They are often busy and overwhelmed but still keen to learn; they value high quality content that’s personalized and relevant to their needs; and they are getting increasingly impatient and turned off by content and experiences that isn’t high value, relevant, and available when they want it.

Spread the loveWise educators know that their goal is not only to teach students the content for their particular course of study but also to help students become lifelong learners. Edtech has an important role in this process of helping students understand the “how” and the “why”—not to mention the joy—of becoming lifelong learners. Finding Opportunities Students may not be aware of the kinds of resources that are available to them online—and for free–that they can use to continue to learn beyond the walls of their classroom. They may also be unaware of the best practices for selecting, vetting, and …

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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"There are many new edtech tools on the market, and each claims it will improve student learning. Before your district can put promising new technology in the classroom, however, you’ll need to assess whether the tech lives up to its marketing claims. These steps will help you pilot edtech successfully."

As much as Generation Z has embraced technology for social engagement, they very much still value an on-campus education experience.

Thousands of teachers and students are creating AR in their classrooms. It is so easy to create that grade school kids can do it. Engagement is off the charts!

The latest data on the nation’s college and university enrollment shows that online is steadily climbing its way up to more than a third of the student population—as face-to-face continues to plummet. That’s a surprising turn in the long-time arc of academic population growth.

If online weren’t in the picture, on-campus enrollments, as reported in the most recent U.S. Department of Education 2016 results, would have fallen by more than 1.5 million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. “Without digital, higher ed would be in far worse shape than it is now,” he adds. “Distance ed is saving higher ed.”

Given the lack of rigorous evidence to guide related decision making, a big investment in educational technologies has in many ways been the true ‘faith-based initiative’ in many education systems over the past two decades. While there are still gaping holes in our collective knowledge base about what works, and what doesn’t, related to many uses of ‘edtech’, we (thankfully) know substantially more today than we did even a few years ago.

Such knowledge doesn’t come a moment too soon! While estimates about the size of national and regional edtech markets can vary widely, depending on how one chooses to define the term and whose white papers you choose to believe, there is no denying that this stuff is (for better or for worse, depending on your perspective) big business around the world – and growing bigger. It’s important to note that big investments in educational technologies aren’t only happening in places like the United States or South Korea, Germany or China or Australia. The emails that land each week in my in-box are testament to just how widespread a phenomenon this has become:

Vizor 360 is a super simple WebVR tool that lets you create interactive and customizable 360° experiences with zero coding. Just drag and drop your 360° images, link them together, customize and share.

"When young students have access to coding, it helps them stick with the topic, and other STEM learning, as the subjects become more challenging"

"A few weeks ago, Aaron, a student in my high school elective class, mentioned he didn’t use social media very often. I’ll admit I was a little skeptical at first. When I followed up, he told the class he found the ads distracting—and said he ended up buying things he didn’t need."

Chances are, one in three (if not even one in two) students is introverted. So check a few reasons why you should include e-learning in your teaching.

In our survey, we asked teachers to tell us about resources that they found on Twitter which they then implemented in the classroom. Here are 25 of the most commonly shared ideas:

Create a profile of a technologically literate graduate by connecting criteria to your school or district's computer science, edtech and STEAM initiatives. Start by incorporating CS and STEAM into instruction through classroom projects that also address digital equity and digital citizenship and connect to science, math, ELA and other subjects.

A few weeks ago I asked a group of teachers to describe a lesson where technology was used effectively to impact learning. After som