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John Evans

Broadcast students' learning live using Spreaker DJ. | Smarter Learning - 0 views

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    "Spreaker DJ app is available for iPad, iPhone or Android devices and also available at www.spreaker.com . Spreaker transforms your device into a full-featured radio station, allowing you to mix your voice with your music library and a range of sound effects. Broadcast your lessons live or have students broadcast their learning by running their own radio station during the lessons. Students can create podcasts that could be listen to after the lesson as a form of revision or to review their learning. Students and teachers can easily share their shows via twitter, Facebook or email. Another excellent feature is the ability to chat to the DJs during the show and could be used as an excellent way to increase the interaction between students all over the world."
John Evans

Curiosity Makes You Smarter - 5 views

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    "For lifelong learners of all ages, we share amazing topics in visual, short-form, mobile-friendly experiences. We make learning easier and more fun than it's ever been."
Sheri Oberman

CATME | Smarter Teamwork - 2 views

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    Teachers can use this software to assign students to groups. One free tool, the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness allows teachers to input the desired criteria on which to base groups. Teachers also have the option of selecting from a bank of questions provided by CATME developers. Tools within a learning management system may also have features that allow instructors to assemble students into groups based on instructor-generated criteria.
Phil Taylor

Patience for the Unconnected | My Island View - 1 views

  • Connected educators may be the worst advocates for getting other educators to connect.
  • The idea of collaborative learning is that we are all in this together, and together we are better and smarter than we are individually.
Phil Taylor

The Connected Educator: It Begins with Collaboration | Edutopia - 1 views

  • Collaboration in the past was limited at best, due to the costly restraints of time and space. Districts needed to pay for travel and provide time away from the job, which limited the amount of collaboration possible. This excluded a great number of educators who could not be replaced if absent from the classroom.
  • Technology has provided us with the ability to communicate, curate, collaborate, and (most importantly) create with any number of educators, globally, at any time, and at very little cost.
  • victims of its dated mindset: if it was good enough for me, it's good enough for the kids. The idea of collaboration requires a mindset of believing there is room to learn and grow. It is also a belief that we are smarter collectively than individually.
John Evans

Smarter Teaching: 10 Ways You'll Know You're Doing It Right - 6 views

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    "Notice that we didn't use the more vague "good teacher" phrasing. That's an important distinction, because here we're talking about something a bit more clinical. Not entirely scientific and analytical and icky, but not entirely rhetorical and abstract and mushy either. Something somewhere in the middle-human, efficient, and hopefully happy and sustainable as a result. "
mike_schlecht

The Most Powerful Mental Booster To Make You Smarter - YouTube - 0 views

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    Mental booster for heightened focus, reduced fatigue. Discover what you can do with an increase to your brainpower! http://tinyurl.com/mentalbooster
Shivani Agarwal

Alternative to Conventional Walls Technology - 0 views

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    Over time buildings are getting smarter with innovative new material. Traditional partitioning methods like Aluminium, Wooden, Brick or cement are not able to cope up with demanding requirement for new modern spaces. There is a growing need for a new material to create trendy looking partitions with high strength and quick installation time. Pronto's walls and partitions panels is an answer to such demanding material.
Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 4 views

  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
John Evans

YouAreHere - where kids learn to be smarter consumers! - 6 views

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    You are welcome to use the resources and activities on this site to teach kids about today's marketplace. The site is intended for students in 5th through 8th grade and can be used to complement lessons in critical thinking, writing, language arts, media literacy, business, civics, and social studies.
John Evans

Can Messy Be A Sign Of Brilliance? - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 6 views

  • "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?"                                                                                                           ---Einstein
John Evans

Philly Teacher: 6 Reasons I Surround Myself with People Smarter Than I Am - 1 views

  • This is the same experience I have had in building my PLN as an educator. While once I was the only one I knew who read ASCD books for fun, now I am humbled and amazed by the intelligence and diversity on Twitter that pushes me to rethink my own ideals and beliefs and exposes me to new ideas.
John Evans

21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter.... - 19 views

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    "21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020"
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