How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms : The eLearning Site - 0 views
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Michael Comins on 07 Mar 13How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms
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Learning Technology Trends in 2013 - 0 views
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LEARNING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN 2013
5 Key Ways to Implement Technology In Learning - Getting Smart by Guest Author - DigLN,... - 0 views
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5 Key Ways to Implement Technology In Learning
How Technology Is Changing Traditional Learning Methods | EdTech Magazine - 0 views
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How Technology Is Changing Traditional Learning Methods
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Technology, Instruction and the 21st Century Classroom | EdTech Magazine - 0 views
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"Technology, Instruction and the 21st Century Classroom"
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The NETP presents a model of 21st century learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The plan also identifies far-reaching "grand challenge problems" that should be funded and coordinated at a national level.
A Guide to Riding the Mobile Learning Wave | Learning Technologies | Training Industry - 0 views
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make sure your learning technology platform can launch a mobile course.
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You want to spur the adoption of mobile learning. So direct users to a course that’s only available in a mobile format. Make the course easy to access.
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The goal is delivering a lot of instructional value in a small package.
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Are kids all that techno-smart? Maybe not | eSchool News - 0 views
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“What we are seeing today is a certain amount of familiarity for the millennial generation around using technology. Whether it is a mobile phone, a tablet or computer, or also doing things with television, video recordings, gaming, there is a particular set of skills that they have developed,” says Akhtar Badshah, senior director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corp. “However, we also know that just because you’ve had familiarity with the use of a device, it may not necessarily lead to proficiency in the use of technology where youth are effectively using technology to better their lives through a job, start something, or undertake further studies.”
To support ed tech, schools need to rethink budgets, infrastructure | eSchool News - 0 views
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Two-thirds of students want to use technology more often in their classrooms, and 76 percent of IT staff said faculty members show increasing interest in implementing educational technology.
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But 87 percent of IT professionals said they would need to upgrade their infrastructure before they can incorporate much more technology in their classrooms, and almost nine in 10 faculty members anticipate problems moving away from the traditional lecture model.
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“Schools need to have resources equal or better than what [students] have at home,” Washington said.
School District In Poor Border Region Gets Technology Rich | Fronteras Desk - 0 views
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The outcome will be quite innovative. Within a year, the school district expects all 25,000 students to have an iPad — for grades 3-12 — or an iPod Touch for those in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
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The total price tag of $20 million — over five years — will be covered with district money.
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Federal funds will help with infrastructure. Free training will be provided by Abilene Christian University (ACU), a leader in educational technology instruction.
Author: 'iGeneration' requires a different approach to instruction | Interactive Learni... - 0 views
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Children born in the 1990s, dubbed the “iGeneration” by Rosen, live in a time of rapidly changing technology, in which they are constantly connected to a number of mobile technologies. Rosen said the “i” stands for both the technologies these students use—such as the iPod, iPhone, and Wii—and the individualized ways in which students use these tools.
4 Tips for Effective On-Demand Training | Learning Technologies | Training Industry - 0 views
The New 3 Es of Education - 0 views
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Project Tomorrow This report is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2010. In this report "The New 3E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning," we are building upon that student vision and focusing on three specific key trends that have generated significant interest this past year at conferences, in policy discussions and within our schools and districts: mobile learning, online and blended learning and e-textbooks. Each of these trends include the essential components of the student vision of socially-based, un-tethered and digitally rich learning, but they also directly address the three new "E's of Education" - enable, engage and empower.
15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers | Emerging Education Technology - 0 views
Growing up Gen Y: The Impact of Being Immersed in Technology - 0 views
Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views
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Ensuring that teachers are properly trained to use technology resources is fast becoming as big of a budgetary concern as was acquiring the technology in the first place.
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Often overlooked however, is that not all teachers are immediately comfortable transitioning to a wired classroom.