ACER principal research fellow, Gerry White, told Computerworld Australia that school students need to be equipped with adequate tech skills to take advantage of the internet and technology for learning purposes.“The whole business of using technology so that they can benefit it in terms of research, doing projects, being more productive, writing, any of those sorts of things that they do in terms of their study, there’s no doubt… they need to be taught how to actually use technology,” White said.
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6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views
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notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
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Learning analytics
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Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 2 views
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Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.
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"Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
Ed Tech Terminology and Concepts Teachers Should Know About ~ Educational Technology an... - 1 views
Top Tech Tools for Formative Assessment - 12 views
Seeing tech in the classroom as 'just another thing' | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views
Tech for 2018: 10 things worth trying this year | Ditch That Textbook - 1 views
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Learning to Code - 3 views
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: Education Data and Learning Analytics - 4 views
How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn? | MindShift - 3 views
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"Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it."
Avoid the 17 Deadly Sins of Flipped Learning Tech Selection - 2 views
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How to Avoid the 17 Deadly Sins of Flipped Learning Technology Selection
Personal Learning Networks - Tech Niche - 1 views
When Students Get Creative With Tech Tools, Teachers Focus on Skills | MindShift - 4 views
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"One of the most intimidating aspects of infusing technology into curriculum is that educators often believe that they will have to master and then teach their students to use new technology tools before assigning a project. These concerns are understandable as our time for professional development is finite and school curricula are already packed. However, consider the impact if, rather than focusing on new tools, we explored the skills students need to learn and then incorporated the most effective digital resources to accomplish those objectives."
CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game - 0 views
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"If you want to learn to program, you don't need lessons. You need to write a lot of code and have a great time doing it. That's what programming is about. It's gotta be fun. Not fun like yay a badge but fun like NO MOM I HAVE TO FINISH THE LEVEL! That's why CodeCombat is a multiplayer game, not a gamified lesson course. We won't stop until you can't stop--but this time, that's a good thing. If you're going to get addicted to some game, get addicted to this one and become one of the wizards of the tech age."
Philly Teacher: Tech Tool vs Learning Tool - 8 views
5 ways tech can truly improve learning (with examples) | Ditch That Textbook - 4 views
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