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"A fun site for learning html/CSS coding which uses emojis to help learners remember the syntax. You can run the code within the site to test it and you can switch between emoji and text based code at the click of a button. There are also lessons to follow to help users become a coding pro."

Pros y contras de Wikipedia. Pistas para utilizarla como recurso didáctico

If a student can score equally well on a test reviewing the instructors notes attending the lecture or not, what does that say about the instructors ability to present information they deem important or testable in their notes? I would not disagree that students often struggle with notetaking, but the study also also raises questions about the way we teach.

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This blog post discusses data found in an infographic about Wikipedia and challenges Education to embrace Wikipedia instead of restricting its use.Pros and cons,practical suggestions and solutions are discussed.

suite of scholarly literature tools with a new release of the free ReadCube desktop application; ReadCube Pro, a premium add-on to the desktop version; ReadCube iOS apps; and SmartCite, a Word-compatible citation tool. Available free for both Mac and PC, ReadCube's desktop application allows researchers to organize and manage their scholarly article libraries, and discover new literature through searches and daily personalized recommendations.

Great article showing both pro and con.

Scan documents to PDF with your iPhone. Integrates with Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote and more. Would work with ipod touch and ipad too.

pretty advanced presentation tool to record and share your PPTs online.

Pros and Cons of Flipping, along with some clarifications about what it is supposed to do, and why you need to be careful not to use it to just perpetuate the lecture format.

"Education is catastrophically deficient in trust. Pro-accountability education reformers presume that, absent carrots and sticks, classrooms would be overrun with lazy and incapable teachers. Traditional instructors presume that, absent carrots and sticks, classrooms would be overrun with lazy and incapable students. Both viewpoints emerge from a noble desire to make classrooms high-performance spaces, but in actuality they suppress excellence."

An excellent article - must read! via @Edutopia

My thoughts on normalising the use of social media in schools in the context of Safer Internet Day 2014 "This reality has yet to sink-in, in most schools where dealing with the safer-internet means presenting an anti-cyber bullying campaign rather than a positive pro-social media approach. Many children have a smart-device near at hand - the immediacy if this must be normalised within the process of teaching, learning and play as a tool for research, creation and communication rather than a device that necessarily leads to meanness."

The rise of the amateur pro culture, the rise of the value of visual literacy, the rise of the value of teaching video as a core literacy skill! Kudos to Pew for making a video of this summary of their findings. My prediction: the future of successful online education models will be conducted via video, not text.

Video creation tool.Use photos, videos and music. Free account and Pro accounts available.

Wow, high priced!

On this site, there are five articles by five different authors explaining their opinions of the pros and cons of having year-round schooling.