Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
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eduTecher - a non-profit web resource - 0 views
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eduTecher is a non-profit web resource that was created in 2008. The website's sole purpose is to help educators around the world better integrate technology into their classrooms and schools. eduTecher offers links to valuable websites, product reviews, as well as hosting lesson plans and activities for teachers to use with their classrooms.
How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Up... - 1 views
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Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 6 views
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And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
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We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Skype in Schools / FrontPage - 0 views
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Directory of educator Skype users.
BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION IN XXI CENTURY: Gr8 tools and appl... - 3 views
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BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION IN XXI CENTURY: Gr8 tools and applications to make heard your visual presence around the semantic web #edtech20 ; http://about.me/web20education ; http://twitter.com/#!/web20education
Marzano Research - 0 views
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Research by Robert Marzano of effects of interactive whiteboards in education.
Dr. Bob Marzano, CUE 2009 Keynote, Part I - 0 views
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Marzano talks about technology's effects on education.
ICT for Development and Education: Exit LIFI « Innovate Blog - 0 views
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In 1997, a group of researchers based in Lugano (CH) started organizing sustainable development and training projects that used online technology (video conference, virtual learning platform, e-mail, etc.) to connect people in remote areas with experts from a range of academic institutions.
Estándares tecnológicos para profesores (ISTE, 2008) - 0 views
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Traducción de los estándares de la International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) para profesores, en su versión de 2008.
NETS Alumnos 2007 según ISTE - 0 views
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Estándares de la International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) para alumnos.
2010 Horizon Report - 3 views
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The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC's Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
HUMlab - stream Virtual Macbeth - 0 views
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,Virtual Macbeth was designed to demonstrate how we might best use the affordances of virtual environments for Education. Shakespeare’s Macbeth reimagined in Second Life provides an adaptive bridge between classic texts and new media technology.
Thinkfinity - 0 views
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Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.
Learn It In 5 - Home - 8 views
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"Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."
21st Century Technology Tools Revised by Liz Davis (Book) in Education & Language - 0 views
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A collection of tutorials on Web 2.0 technology tools such as Google Docs, Wikispaces, Ning, VoiceThread, Twitter, Diigo and Delicious. You can downbload the book for free!
FreshBrain - 0 views
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Social site allows teens to explore and learn technology and participate in a variety of application projects.
Library2Play - 0 views
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Spring-Branch ISD library services program to introduce technology to librarians.
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