TeachLivE is a mixed-reality classroom with simulated students that provides teachers the opportunity to develop their pedagogical practice in a safe environment
Immersive environments, such as Multi-User Virtual Environments and virtual worlds, are increasingly being prototyped, explored and assessed as tools to help students master content, domain-specific thinking skills, and general problem-solving ad decision making skills.
Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners.
The results of the current study show that teachers involved in Fatih Project were especially content with being able to make their lessons visually more appealing for their students. They were, however, not satisfied with the in-service training provided, especially in understanding ways to effectively integrate the technologies into their teaching, and the limitations put upon Internet access from the tablets. The impacts of these tools on their teaching practices were very minimal.
The author of this article tries to answer why so many teachers are resistant to mobile devices in their classrooms although their students tend to believe that smartphones and laptops can assist their learning. After reading the text, I realized how social attitude toward mobile learning can be a decisive factor in terms of its integration into education.
This infographic gives information about social media,online learninh,apps with shocking percentages. At the end of the infographic a little history timeline is waiting for us to see what changed in in education with technology.
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. :)
80 percent of faculty use social media for some aspect of a course teaching, 20 percent of the students are assigned to comment on social media sites.
* Fun infographic shows changing educational habits under the effect of promises of technology
There are examples for different domains how technology can be integrated into specific topics. I shared one from science: Also, we can watch videos among teachers and students to get feedback about TPACK cases.
Teachers and administrators can use Mobilskole from their mobile devices to quickly and easily send information to parents and students about attendance, grades and school events, among other things. Mobilskole can be used for urgent communication between schools and parents about emergencies and school closures due to weather.
System provides templates for standard messages, including reminders for parents, information about school field trips, and internal communications among school employees.
I picked the project conducted by Yorkshire Coast College. It emphasizes the power of text messages in learning; therefore, it increases the retention and welfare of students. In addition, it will definitely help to motivate them because they never set their mobile phones aside.
An open-source technology education movement that partners with educators in schools and learning centers to deliver courses to young people. Aim of this movement is to encourage students to work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn to build a mobile, web or social app to solve them which makes it good in that it helps learners to be productive.
I could not tweet because of the problems in my Twitter account; that is why, I would like to share the resources I have found here. :) This research study aims to learn about classroom teachers point of views about FATIH Project. Half of the teachers think that the project will be a failure because of technical problems of tablets, lack of teacher's technological competency and the training of teachers. However, they think that the project may help students in terms of not carrying heavy bags and providing a better, tehcnology-enriched learning atmosphere.
Presemo provides a flexible suite of participation activities and accommodates different workflows. As always in class, there's more than just one way to do it.
Presemo focuses on developing mobile participation platforms that teachers can use during lectures to support greater interactivity, communication and collaboration among students.