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Why Advanced Technology Classrooms Fail

" A recent survey of almost 2,000 teachers found that half think that using Twitter (and Facebook) in the classroom "is harmful to the learning experience." But, Los Angeles history teacher Enrique Legaspi disagrees with the naysayers. Last year he went to a workshop that discussed ways to use Twitter in teaching and now his students-even the shy ones-at Hollenbeck Middle School in East L.A. are speaking up more."

video about e-learning and the need for change in the classroom.

One teacher removes technology from the classroom totally.

"Will technology cause the traditional college classroom education to become obsolete? Here's a satirical vision of future education. "

Really funny look at our current teaching environments

Short essay from a Prof who used Twitter in the classroom this semester.

The list below is an ever expanding list of free resources, now over a 100 tools, that can be used in a classroom either by students or teachers.

"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."

Excellent discussion about using blogs in the higher ed classroom - specifically discusses issues around FERPA, assessment, privacy, etc.

Great description of a instructor's use of Twitter in a course - he walks through his entire process from planning to implementation to results in class

On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

Delicious Shutting Down - will need to point people to Diigo - this also will affect the labs/classrooms image

Article describes a classroom broken down into stations, each one designed to teach specific skills in different ways. A kid who needs to learn how to calculate the area of a circle could be taught in a group with a teacher, with a virtual tutor, or with a computer program.

A great rubric for using Twitter in the classroom.

YouTube Teachers is a site that is geared to help teachers use educational videos in the classroom. Also, it shows teachers how to record themselves and implement video that way.

Celly is a wonderful free site for using mobile phones/text messaging in the classroom (found out about from a member of my PLN on Twitter). There is a lot to like about using Celly such as: creating a chat, alerting, and even using a curator to approve messages before they get posted (ideal for education). Also, it's ideal for taking notes, interacting w/ web (no phone is actually needed), etc etc.

Defines social bookmarking and provides uses within classroom.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets.

More college students than ever before are demanding online classes as an option when they register for classes -- even traditional students who live on campus.