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I store all my syllabuses there,

Dropbox for both scholarly reading and keeping track of documents

snap a picture of his whiteboard before he erases it

uses his iPhone's camera as a document scanner, with an app called JotNot Pro

Inkling creates textbooks made for iPads, with interactive features and videos

mind mapping

smartphones or tablet computers enhances the process, letting scholars toss around ideas with a flick of the finger

touch-screen interface of

crowd science," in which the public is invited to add structured data to an online database

a flashcard function that helps them learn the names of their students

Attendance

app (which now sells for $4.99

This is an important point if instructors require students to post to a blog, social networking site, or any other site not affiliated with the institution. In this case, “the activity may not be FERPA-protected because it has not been received and therefore is not in the custody of the university, at least until the student submission is copied or possibly just reviewed by the faculty member.”

FERPA applies only to information in the possession of the institution

When students are assigned to post information to public social media platforms outside of the university LMS, they should be informed that their material may be viewed by others

Students should not be required to release personal information on a public site.

Instructor comments or grades on student material should not be made public.

By placing so much emphasis on testing, the curriculum became centered around those tests. Since students’ day-to-day lives are vastly different from what they see on standardized tests, they have little context for the content they are asked to learn. The result: 21st century skills involving creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication are devalued or absent from classrooms.

immersing students in a specific career provides a stronger context for learning. Students can connect the rationale for learning new content to a career skill or objective. Instead of being viewed as a distraction, technology becomes a critical tool to give students 21st Century skills in creativity, critical thinking, and communications.