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SITE 2016 in Savannah, Georgia, March 21-25, is the 27th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education ... I know that it is late to say for this conference but I thought that maybe the studies can be followed by this conference news.

This link is also related with the conference and useful for us. http://site.aace.org/sigs/tpack-sig/

this infographic shows us that using technology in our lives has more place than in our educational purposes. It gives the rates of U.S, however i think that in our country or any other one rates are similar. Especially students use technology for socializing like smartphones, social medias or etc. rather than to use in education. :)

The 4 Ways Educational Technology Is Changing How People Learn Infographic presents how alters the way we learn. In particular, there is a transition from individual to collaborative learning and from passive to active or brain-based learning while differentiated instruction is rising and the phenomenon of multitasking is expanding. This is the summary of how is education now with technology integration

The What Teachers Want from Educational Technology Tools Infographic presents what kinds of digital instructional tools educators consider essential to help their students be prepared for college and careers in the 21st century.

This new infographic reminds us that when we FAIL to invest in girls' education, millions of girls and women are locked out of opportunities. But when we SUCCESSFULLY invest in girls' education l...

Education and technology are interconnected. This synergy is able to transform the world we live in. The contradictory phenomenon is that while being an early adopter of technology, education is also one of the last sectors to be fully transformed by it, due to institutional inertia and a number of other reasons.

"When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you'll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within." - Kio Start Loved this quote !! + I am shocked to see how they used vine videos to explain science :)

The warning for social media privacy is quite an important aspect, indeed. Thanks for this educative article, Özlem!

Use of technology for educational purposes has evolved in such a way that it started intimidating students. Apparently, some guys designed a software which, supposedly, is capable of predicting student failure in advance. Although the designers had planned to introduce this program to forewarn the learners who were likely to underachieve before it was too late, a good number of students started complaining that "the data [would] be used to label them before they [had] a chance to make their own impression on a teacher". Issues of digital redlining and privacy were raised by many students whereas the proponents, many of whom are teachers, continue to argue that the program was designed only to "help educators find and help students at risk of failure".

a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

Let's try to locate this book at the library. Looks like a good read.

I saw this book at the library but have not been examine it yet. I want to offer another book that I have raised a loan from the library. http://www.amazon.com/Considerations-Technology-Teachers-Best-JRTE/dp/1564842738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362518933&sr=8-1&keywords=Considerations+on+technology+and+teachers+%3A+the+best+of+JRTE

Came across with this at Twitter.

This article suggests some research topics to develop literature for special education and technology

This article empahizes benefits of TPACK in integrating technology into special education and also suggests implications for preservice teacher education.

This is an interesting website that includes information about top 25 universities' onlive teacher education course.

One more Augmented Reality sample. This time it is used in Math Education.

Picking up the right educational apps to recommend to your students and kids is not an easy task.There are several criterion you need to consider before you can comfortably claim that an app is educational or not.

Chegg is an online homework help and material supply company and Dan Rosensweig, chief executive officer at Chegg, discusses the trends in education tech and what we can expect to see in 2016.

"In this research, we explore how educators are using digital education services to deliver personalised programs. Through inputs from a series of in-depth interviews, surveys and social listening, we paint a picture of how the world of work and learning might evolve over the next forty years." A 16-page report from IBM.