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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.

Mobile Learning in Primary and Secondary science Education

Edutopia is an example of online communities of practice for educators.

How can learning analytics help? How does learning analytics process work? What are the costs and challenges of learning analytics? What are the recommendations for educators and administrators?

This is a nice info-graphic which answers some of the challenges mentioned in the Horizon Report.

This page provides a register of OER providers in the teacher education area, links to OER search engines, and other aggregate sites, allowing you to find further resources.

When Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc stepped onto the stage at Campus Tech 2015 in July, he painted a bright picture of competency-based higher ed. "Today, 500 institutions are moving to competency-based education, and they are not-for-profit," he said. "There's a lot of opportunity." LeBlanc certainly had that right.

It is a video about virtual reality and it is effect on education. It is not to long just 9 minute.

This ten minute ted x video introduces information about challenges of creating virtual reality and its possible future implementations in education. If you say " it is too long, I have no time to watch, you may try to watch by skipping :P

This infographic is about the teachers' ranking the hottest educational trends. I chose this one on purpose with the aim of presenting some attitudes towards new trends in teaching and learning. This infographic reveals North American teachers' appraisals related to educational technologies. It was interesting for me to see that they attached far less importance to interactive whiteboards and digital games in education.