EDC 601 Instructional Tech ASF SUNY

Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use.

Twitter’s hashtags and other tools share a great way to organize information for your classroom.

Use these ideas to take advantage of the vast resources that Twitter has to offer.

My own children, both still not yet in high school, are media omnivores. They will watch broadcast TV from Comcast, they will view YouTube videos, they enjoy Netflix, they watch iTunes movies using the AppleTV box, and they still watch a DVD or two while we roadtrip somewhere. No single solution exists that satisfies everyone and it's awfully nice to have a variety of choices.

John GiardinaSenior Technical Instructor - Electrical at Duke Energy - Harris Nuclear Plant

It’s simply harnessing the power of technology to leverage your instruction. It’s incorporating technology in your teaching practice to boost student engagement and motivation.

I thought this Connected Educator Starter Kit was a great resource to share to get started.

Tweet more often.

What it is: Our Little Earth is a great international online newspaper for kids.  It is delivered every two weeks directly to email and best of all, it is free!  Past editions of Our Little Earth can be found on the site for students to read and explore.  Each issue helps students stay informed about what current events are happening in the world around them.  Every edition has a map showing students where the news came from for the issue.  The articles are easy for students to read and do a great job of offering enough background information so that students can make connections to the text and better understand it.

a bit of history: to keep the world's military-industrial machine running at the zenith of the British Empire, Victorians assembled an education system to mass-produce workers with identical skills. Plucked from the classroom and plugged instantly into the system, citizens were churned through an educational factory engineered for maximum productivity.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding. -- Sugata Mitra

Math textbooks can be very dry and hard for students to read for understanding. So much of math involves relationships, patterns, and 3-D objects that a static textbook just can’t do justice to. Online supplements can give students a better understanding of relationship, pattern, and 3-D objects with video and animation.

11. Harcourt Multimedia Math Glossary

Real World Math Practice:

Educators and researchers share their views on why technology integration is an important strategy for 21st century classrooms.

The first thing the teacher needs to do is to understand what kids do and the range of it; she has to understand what her own children do.

What's the difference between project-, problem-based learning?

In this blog post, Larmer explores different teaching strategies and differentiates between two PBLs -- project-based learning and problem-based learning, which he describes as two sides of the same coin to engage and teach students.

Instructional Technology

As such, diversity plays a large role in projects students design for use inside and outside of classrooms. Faculty and students at Curry contemplate ways technology can be used to extend educational opportunities to all populations. 

Students who focus their studies in IT gain exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies, while ensuring the basic competencies required of all practitioners.