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This study examined the effect of electronic outlining on the quality of students' writing products and how outlining affects perceived mental effort during the writing task. Additionally, it was studied how students appropriate and appreciate an outline tool and whether they need explicit instruction in order to engage in planning. To answer these questions, the writing products and self-report data from 34 tenth-grade students of a Dutch pre-university school were analysed. Students wrote two similar argumentative texts with or without an outline tool. Results show that electronic outlining improves the quality of students' argumentative texts and decreases mental effort. Answers to a retrospective questionnaire showed that a short instruction on the outline tool was sufficient for students to understand its working and that most students experienced the tool as beneficial. Finally, results indicate that without specific instruction on text planning, students hardly devote any time to this important aspect of writing.

Sci2ools is a free online suite of productivity tools that are very useful for your daily use such as, Convert scanned documents into editable text - OCR, Convert Latex equations to high resolution images to embed in documents, Convert web page to printer friendly PDF, Convert web page to high resolution image or wallpaper, Split and Merge PDF, Extract Images from PDF as JPEG, Convert PDF to Thumbnails, Text, or Postscript, Repair Corrupted PDF if possible, Convert Office Documents to PDF, Image Converter, Converts Latex Documents to RTF, and much more.

Tony Vincent shares a powerful infographic that may just help you mobilize for greater productivity. Check it out!

Add nature sounds in your class.

Improve Focus and Boost Productivity with Background Noise - Mix different sounds to create your own background noise to relax or boost productivity.

Good review of a good product.

Inexpensive, and it works. Great service. The developer works in edtech development at Penn State

"At its inception in the Victorian era, mass education in the UK focused very much on conformity, based on the prevailing 'factory production' mindset on the age. But how much has changed? With top down curricula and a rigid exam system testing the merest fraction of what is actually important, has education really left the production line behind?"

"Drawing from almost 200 scientific studies on workplace meetings, a team of psychological scientists provides recommendations for making the most out of meetings before they start, as they're happening, and after they've concluded. Their report is published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Meetings are a near-ubiquitous aspect of today's professional workplace and there is abundant trade wisdom and written guidance about how meetings should be run. But, as researchers Joseph Mroz and Joseph Allen (University of Nebraska Omaha) and Dana Verhoeven and Marissa Shuffler (Clemson University) point out, very little of this guidance is informed by the available science."

"To tackle something most productively you need room. Physically you need all your tools in order and an open space for spreading your raw elements and assembling structures. Psychically you need an empty head, clear of distractions and unfinished business holding your attention hostage"

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I want to share many of the apps that I find very useful below in my productivity app list. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it ought to really help you get a great start on using your iPad for more than email and Web browsing.

"Nobelprize.org's educational section consists of 46 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includes a "Read more" about the subject. Enjoy learning!"

As I mentioned earlier, the best device a school can roll out is a teacher who can adapt to new and emerging technologies, does not always require formal training for learning and staying current, and is not tethered to a product (PowerPoint) in order to teach. Education technology will continue to progress and part of this evolution will be for students and teachers to stay current with both curriculum and digital literacy. Even in the absence of technology, a great teacher will continually seek out ways to engage his or her students in great lessons, simulations or challenges.  

Index of EdTech products

Presents a beta-version of a tool developed by an US governmental department for schools and school district choosing edtech solutions. Interesting!

A collection of PBL end products, organized by grade level.

Fuel cell cars are expensive.  The fuel cell costs a lot

Example of using area model to explore multiplication by values greater than 1 and values between 0 and 1.