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This year my school district in Vermont ventured into a sort-of BYOD/1:1 hybrid program. We realized the importance of allowing our students access to technology to enhance their learning, but the infrastructure wasn't in place to tackle a traditional BYOD. .. Instead, we chose to be creative with our technology and professional development.

"Bringing iPods and iPads into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. .. The list is for large or small class sets of handhelds; if students are using their own personal iPods you'll have a different set of considerations and technical issues to deal with.."

"The self organized learning environment (SOLE) is a model to adapt school space to facilitate inquiry based learning. The idea is simple and powerful: "A teacher encourages their class to work as a community to answer questions using computers with internet access"."

Summary of articles and recommendations to flip class model.

Statistics come in your middle classes. Often found interesting and difficult at the same time, a base of math is needed to make the attractive graphical diagrams and other important calculations in the subject. With online math tutor, it is now becoming easier for the students to deal with both...

"In a nutshell, it works like this: You create presentations in PowerPoint, and \nInteractive Classroom helps you insert real time knowledge checks (called polls) \nalong the way. Polls can include multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false \nquestions, and they seamlessly integrate with the lesson you're teaching. \n\nStudents can connect to your presentation by joining an Interactive \nClassroom session that you create (note that your students will need a network \nconnection). After students join-and it's easy to do, so don't worry about \nspending half your class time setting it up-they see your presentation and the \npoll question(s) you've included in their own OneNote notebook. Students can \nanswer poll questions in OneNote, and you get real-time feedback in the charting \nformat you choose. You can add text or draw on your slides during the session, \nand your students will see the changes you've made in OneNote. They can also add \ntheir own comments and notes on the presentation."

use of Twitter enhanced student engagement

I grew up during the 1950s and '60s in a three stoplight mill town in western North Carolina. I did not enjoy education but I enjoyed learning, being in class, listening to teachers talk to us about our world, and participating in discussions (in our co

As the popularity of taking classes at home grows, you might stop to wonder, what's the difference? What are the advantages of pursuing an MBA program online versus in a classroom?

Until recently classes were sent to the library to check out pre-selected books that would have some information about their topic. Allowing students to search for their information on the web makes teachers often uncomfortable. * They can't control the content, students encounter * Overwhelming number of search results * Inappropriate sites * Inaccurate information * Citation All the above mentioned reasons are valid points, but can't be used as a reason to "stick to the book" when allowing younger students to research. We do have to prepare them for research in media that is current for our times and one they most likely will use as as their primary source for gathering information as they grow.

SchoolRack Helps You, Your Students, and Parents * Share information, documents, and files * Hold discussions online, outside of class * Report grades online to students or their parents * Keep in touch with private messaging * And much more! (don't forget it's easy to use!)

Excellent description of the TeachMeet Takeover at Bett this year and the difference it made to class room practice

Worldwide educators you are invited to join my #edtech20 presentation and all the sessions in #CO11 - free annual live online conference on wiziq http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/443860-co11-free-project-in-the-clouds-for-teachers-worldwide

"One theme we all emphasized is that, before we can make comparisons between virtual worlds and real worlds, we need to understand lots more about the real world...."

"All work and no play makes jack a dull boy". This is true because the best researchers are now saying that the kids have the fastest learning curve only when they are learning while having fun. Having an extracurricular learning and at an early stage helps increase receptivity of kid's by 50 percent.

Each student that going to the math classes obliges to finish loads of math homework in instructive life but still have issues in completing the assignment because such math homework might be perplexing, and tedious.