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Teaching Today | How-To Articles | Cell Phones in the Classroom - 1 views

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  • Chelsea Miller on 11 Nov 11
     
    This article talks about whether or not to use cell phones in the middle school classroom. It talks about the good and the bad and ways teachers can creatively use cell phones for learning tools.
  • Stephen Slagle on 23 May 12
     
    Cell phones have become a ubiquitous accessory of high school students since the late 1990s. Initially banned by schools as an unnecessary distraction, events such as the Columbine tragedy and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have made most districts reconsider the place of cell phones in middle and high schools.
  • Jordan Griggs on 01 Oct 13
     
    I think that cell phones can be used as a tool, but they are not always appropriate. Some children don't have cell phones so in that situation, children can tend to feel left out if a teacher decides to use a phone as a tool. From my perspective, I most likely will leave cell phones out of my plans for the classroom and use other tools such as remote clickers and things of that nature that I provide for the students.
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How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation | MindShift - 1 views

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  • Jordan Griggs on 01 Oct 13
     
    I love Pinterest, it is one of my many obsessions so immediately I was attracted to this article. I believe Pinterest is an extremely useful tool, especially in a classroom. I use it mainly for crafting and creating, rather than news and media things, so rarely will I ever be worrying about copyright issues. I do understand, however, that it can cause some major issues. I don't believe I will have students necessarily be using this site, it will be more for my use. Pinterest offers great ideas through personal blogs that others share for the public use. This article showed me that there are consequences that come with some of the criteria though.
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6 Technology Challenges Facing Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Challenge 1: professional development. Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.
    • Lindsay Pasco
      Lindsay Pasco on 26 Sep 13
       
      I think that it is important to know and understand the challenges with technology in the education field. I think that this is important because it can help to keep those challenges minimal in the classroom. I think it is important that the students do not become too dependent on technology.
  • Challenge 2: resistance to change. Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo."
  • According to the researchers, teachers and school leaders often see technological experimentation as outside the scope of their job descriptions.
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  • Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling.
  • Challenge 4: delivering informal learning. Related to challenge 3, rigid lecture-and-test models of learning are failing to challenge students to experiment and engage in informal learning. But, according to the report, opportunities for such informal learning can be found in non-traditional classroom models, such as flipped classrooms, which allow for a blending of formal and informal learning.
  • Challenge 5: failures of personalized learning. According to the report, there's a gap between the vision of delivering personalized, differentiated instruction and the technologies available to make this possible.
  • Challenge 6: failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments.
  • However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes. Simple applications of digital media tools, like webcams that allow non-disruptive peer observation, offer considerable promise in giving teachers timely feedback they can use."
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Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 0 views

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  • The development of written language changed the way human beings developed, in large part by influencing brain development and expressed new brain-mediated capabilities that had previously been un-expressed.
  • Children need real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from available technologies. Technologies should be used to enhance curriculum and experiences for children. Children have to have an integrated and well-balanced set of experiences to help them grow into capable adults that can handle social-emotional interactions as well as develop their intellectual abilities.
    • kristel coulter
      kristel coulter on 27 Sep 13
       
      Children need to have hands on experiences that will enhance their learning capabilities.
  • As parents think about the future they need to realize two things: technology is not going to go away and we are in the midst of a major sociocultural quantum shift. These technologies are revolutionizing the world our children will live in. So our task is to balance appropriate skill-development with technologies with the core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy children. We must keep the core principles of healthy development in mind as we incorporate these technology and tools. If we do that we'll be fine. And at the heart of any healthy child is the opportunity for enriching and nurturing interactions with other human beings. I think the key to making technologies healthy is to make sure that we use them to enhance or even expand our social interactions and our view of the world as opposed to using them to isolate and create an artificial world.
    • kristel coulter
      kristel coulter on 27 Sep 13
       
      Children need to have balance. They need opportunities for using technology in the classroom; however, technology should not over take the educational goals.
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  • In addition, there are a number of specialized programs that allow children with certain information-processing problems to get a multimedia presentation of content so that they can better understand and process the material. They are able to see the written words and see a visual image and hear the sounds — all at the same time. Combining these sensory-modalities helps a child to more efficiently internalize information about a topic. If they have, for example, an auditory processing difficulty or a reading disorder they may be very bright but they don't read very efficiently so if something is read to them on a CD-ROM with visual images they are better able to internalize the information. This helps these children feel better about themselves because they perform better. They're not as afraid of school anymore.
    • kristel coulter
      kristel coulter on 27 Sep 13
       
      For children who have a special need programs assist with the developmental need of that child. These programs help to build self esteem in children who have communication issues and have a difficult time processing information to be able to have a hands on approach to share their thoughts.
  • Jennifer Flanigan on 09 Nov 10
     
    This article talks about pros and cons with young children and using technology in the classroom. He says that it needs to be done at particular times and should take away from the social development that these children at this age are learning. Timing is everything to technology and children at a young age. Parents and teachers need to take in account, when they are using the technology application what are they missing out on? Social interactions, play time, nap time or just free time. This time could also be a time where the parent and the child can spend time together to learn and teach each other about what they are doing with the technology.
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Assistive Technology: A Necessity for Student Success - Education Futures: Emerging Tre... - 0 views

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  • Assistive Technology: A Necessity for Student Success
  • At its core, the American educational system is about democratization of knowledge for all students, regardless of their circumstances.
  • In 2011, 22 percent of non-institutionalized adults with disabilities had less than a high school education.
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  • The key to improving the educational experience for students with disabilities is better accommodations in schools and continued improvements in assistive technology.
  • Assistive technology in K-12 classrooms, by definition, is designed to "improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability."
  • Alternative input devices:
  • Text-to-speech options:
  • Sensory enhancers:
  • Screen readers:
  • Assistive technology is important for providing a sound education for K-12 students with disabilities but benefits the greater good of the country too.
  • David Rutledge on 27 Sep 13
     
    Assistive Technology: A Necessity for Student Success
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Education 3.0: Embracing Technology to 'Jump the Curve' | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Education 3.0 is what I believe we can aspire to so as to educate our students, at all levels, in ways that actually promote 21st-century skills and prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow (aka, the jobs that don’t exist today but which will be required in the future). It’s the coming together of creativity, outcomes, critical thinking, big data, personalization, and much more. For me, it’s really the confluence of three crucial education elements: Neuroscience, Cognitive (Learning) Psychology, and Education Technology. And so, in this first blog post, I will begin to discuss the infrastructure for Education 3.0: Education Technology.
  • From Pencils to Personalized Learning: What is Ed Tech? Ed Tech has taken on a whole new meaning in the last two decades. While some might argue that Ed Tech began with the humble pencil, I’m really talking about technology that is web-based, digital, and/or mobile. I’m talking about websites, apps, LMS’, hardware, software, and anything else with an ‘e’ in front of it. I’m talking big data, little data, personalization, and machine learning. I’m talking about dashboards, on-demand reports, and visualizations of information. Education technology has changed what we can deliver, how we can assess, and how we might connect learners to each other, to instructors, and to content. And that connection changes … well, everything.
  • the education sector is focusing far too much about what existed yesterday, some about what exists today, and very little about what will exist tomorrow. He challenged the “Choice Architects” of today to stop creating employees for the jobs of yesterday and start focusing on careers of tomorrow.
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  • The point is, the lower the usage of technology in classrooms, the harder it is to teach 21st century skills. When academics ignore a future that is not just technology intensive, but dependent, our graduates go into life under-prepared (if not unprepared) to work, live, and thrive.
  • David Rutledge on 27 Sep 13
     
    Education 3.0
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A Map of Education Technology Through 2040 [#Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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  • It is likely, however, that cloud-based technology will be the foundation for educational technology and that remote, online learning will continue to grow at a faster pace.
    • Ashleigh Clark
      Ashleigh Clark on 27 Sep 13
       
      I feel like this will likely be the case in the future.  With technology growing so fast and all, I feel that online learning will grow more and technology based in the classroom will grow more as well.
  • Will the developing world catch up with the developed world? Will residential colleges be as popular as they are today? And what about degrees…will they still mean something to employers?
    • Ashleigh Clark
      Ashleigh Clark on 27 Sep 13
       
      These questions are very important to ask our selves.  Especially as teachers.
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  • This visualization attempts to organize a series of emerging technologies that are likely to influence education in the upcoming decades. Despite its inherently speculative nature, the driving trends behind the technologies can already be observed, meaning it's a matter of time before these scenarios start panning out in learning environments around the world.
  • Matt Britland
  • The future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and learning is going to be social. Schools of the future could have a traditional cohort of students, as well as online only students who live across the country or even the world. Things are already starting to move this way with the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs). For me, the future of technology in education is the cloud. Technology can often be a barrier to teaching and learning. I think the cloud will go a long way to removing this barrier. Why? By removing the number of things that can go wrong.
  • Ashleigh Clark on 27 Sep 13
     
    The reason why I chose this article is because of the picture. It shows what they think technology will be like in eduction by 2040.
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For E-Learning to Succeed, Schools Need Support Infrastructure - 0 views

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  • most school districts do not have the necessary infrastructure to support online and computer-based learning that advances in education technology require.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      Many schools can't support advancements in learning. This is the major challenge of E-learning.
  • New York City’s plans to move textbooks from paper to digital form is an important first step in modernizing the city’s 1,600 traditional public schools. To get benefits of e-books, the city would need to provide a computer or tablet to every student and give schools access to a fast Internet connection.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      The sheer amount of e-books needed and the cost show that this is somewhat of an unrealistic dream. Though this can help students the cost would be staggering and unlikely to gain support.
  • Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
     
    This article is about the challenges schools face in modernization.
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K-12 Education Tech Startups Face Challenges, Tough Competition - 0 views

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  • New K-12 education technology startups must contend with corporate conglomerates that continue to dominate the K-12 market.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      Here it talks about the monopoly in ed tech
  • Higher education startups have already found that elite universities and their tightly knit communities of academics are certainly not an inviting field for cost-cutting, potentially job-threatening startups. But K-12 education is an even more complex animal, governed by larger teachers’ union and a web of state, local and federal funding and regulations.
    • Riley Montgomery
      Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
       
      This talks extensively about the monopoly on tech ed involving universities and communities.
  • Riley Montgomery on 27 Sep 13
     
    This article is interesting because it shows how small startup educational tech groups are being stopped or shut out by big monopolizing university used, educational technology groups.
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LearnBIG - 1 views

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  • Kellie Demmler on 27 Sep 13
     
    This site is a repository for quality educational apps. Great place to find tools to use in your classroom.
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Five Ways Teachers Can Use Technology to Help Students | Brookings Institution - 0 views

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  • The best education technologies enable teachers to do more with fewer resources.
  • Many mistakenly believe that education technologies are expensive and complicated to use.
  • They also serve as a platform for students to demonstrate growth.
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  • Online portfolios have many advantages over paper based options because they cost less and allow for more robust outreach.
  • Despite this obstacle, teachers working together have tremendous potential to reform education.
  • Sadie Butts on 26 Sep 13
     
    This article is an awesome resource for teachers to read because it provides ways in which technology can be used, answers common questions, and wraps everything up simply.
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South Korea Works to Stem Digital Addiction - 2 views

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  • Terra Nichols on 05 Dec 12
     
    The digital age is not all positive. Children are now growing up addicted to technology.
  • jme8227 on 19 Jun 13
     
    I agree the digital age is not all positive, it is scary how much and what kind of content is out there. But as parents and teachers it is our jobs as its always been to teach good from bad, and to keep an eye on what they are looking at, what they are learning. We need to st good examples and find sites that allow you to be interactive with the child and the program.
  • Carley Morrison on 26 Sep 13
     
    I like this article because I agree, technology isn't all rainbows and butterflies. There is a positive to technology but it is not ok for children to grow up addicted to it. In the classroom, there needs to be a balance.
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How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Page 3 | Education.com - 0 views

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      Kelsey Short on 26 Sep 13
       
      I really like this idea because it takes the focus off the teacher or the technology and onto the students where the focus belongs.
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Magical Thinking - 0 views

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  • Rachel Longnecker on 26 Sep 13
     
    This is a good read because everyone told me that: technology will take over teachers positions, teachers are not needed as they were back then, and so on but, this article lowers those fears and says no that is not true. The guy, Larry Cuban, did a good job.
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How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Page 2 | Education.com - 0 views

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      Kelsey Short on 26 Sep 13
       
      I believe this concept can be apply at any level; elementary, middle, high and even secondary education.
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How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? | Education.com - 0 views

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  • With every other technology, including computers, educators recognized its importance and debated how to apply each nascent commercial technology for educational purposes
  • Unfortunately, educators have almost always tried to use technologies to teach students in the same ways that teachers had always taught.
  • computers as productivity tools
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  • students should teach the computer or use the technology to represent what they know rather than memorizing what teachers and textbooks tell them.
    • Kelsey Short
      Kelsey Short on 26 Sep 13
       
      I would like this to fit into my education model. I think this statement reflects constructiveness.
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Ohio Department of Education Announces New E-schools for 2013-14 | Ohio Department of E... - 0 views

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    • Kelsey Short
      Kelsey Short on 26 Sep 13
       
      This section would be an interesting find to see the specifics of what an online school has to do to qualify.
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The Education-Technology Revolution is Coming - 0 views

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  • Rachel Longnecker on 26 Sep 13
     
    I think this is interesting because it is about a program we use here at Ohio University. It touches on the becoming of it but more of the revolution of it and for active learners.
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