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Jill Bergeron

5 App and Mobile Use Guides for Parents | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 75 percent of children 8 years old or younger had access to a "smart" mobile device at home
  • For teens, mobile use is near ubiquitous; almost 80 percent own a cell phone and three-quarters use mobile devices to access the internet, according to findings from a 2013 Pew Research survey.
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    Resources for parenting with technology.
Gayle Cole

Google Forms for Teachers- A Must Read Guide ~ ... - 0 views

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    Google Forms for Teachers- A Must Read Guide ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | @scoopit http://t.co/UGAKN0hTrZ
Jill Bergeron

Sparticl Homepage - 0 views

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    Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM.
Jill Bergeron

The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • A backchannel (3) -- a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity -- provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation.
  • TodaysMeet (4) would have let teachers create private chat rooms so that students could ask questions or leave comments during class. A Padlet (5) wall might have fueled students to share their ideas as text, images, videos, and links posted to a digital bulletin board. The open response questions available in a student response system like Socrative (6) or InfuseLearning (7) could have become discussion prompts to give each student an opportunity to share his or her ideas before engaging in class discussion.
  • To inspire questioning and wondering, Meghan Zigmond (10) put her first grade students in groups and allowed them to use a Padlet wall (11) to capture their questions as they read Douglas Florian's Comets, Stars, The Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings
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  • They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class period. Backchannels don't replace class discussions -- they extend them.
  • She used Socrative to capture her fifth graders' questions and answers throughout the presentation, giving them an immediate channel for their thoughts.
  • The backchannel gave every student an opportunity to express his or her views and to listen to voices that otherwise may not have been heard.
  • A backchannel creates ubiquitous opportunities (18). In a blended environment, students and teachers can communicate through multiple modalities, allow their thoughts to develop over time, and engage in authentic learning.
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    This article provides three good tech tools for teachers who want to try a back channel chat and nearly a half dozen ideas for incorporating this type of technology into the curriculum. There are even suggestions for how to use it with students as young as 6 years old.
Jill Bergeron

The Best Educational Chrome Extensions for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile... - 0 views

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    These Chrome extensions are sorted by subject area and by technology application.
Jill Bergeron

Facebook's so uncool, but it's morphing into a different beast - 0 views

  • Instead, four new contenders for the crown have emerged: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp.
  • WhatsApp is better for messaging and is now said to have overtaken Facebook as the number one way to send mobile messages.
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    What's replacing Facebook for this younger generation?
Jill Bergeron

7 Awesome Visual Alternatives to Google Docs ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    Good ways for students to collaborate on note taking simultaneously.
Jill Bergeron

30+ YouTube Channels for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views

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    Options for teachers looking for relevant classroom YouTube videos.
Jill Bergeron

3 Excellent Google Drive Apps to Remotely Present to Your Students ~ Educational Techno... - 0 views

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    These tools integrate with Google slides and other presentation tools.
Jill Bergeron

This Is How to Use Twitter to Search for Educational Content ~ Educational Technology a... - 0 views

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    Several tips on how to make the most of Twitter for education.
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