What's special about Finland's educational system? How they facilitate educational technologies in their classrooms? Here in the article you can find the answers of these questions.
This site enables one to research his/her online options with our database of more than 1,600 schools by filtering his/her choices by subject, degree level, tuition, and more to find an online school that will fit his/her needs.
The world's educational philosophy has been changed , and now that we can reach all off the sources online with a computer and Internet connection. This database is quite a beneficial source in terms of its vast filter and content.
MIT Center for Mobile Learning, in colloboration with the MIT Media Lab encourages teachers and academic faculty to develop their own mobile apps to facilitate in education.
In 2011, Katy Independent School District, in partnership with Cisco, launched the final phase of a technology transformation. The teachers explain how they transformed their vision of instruction by integrating mobile learning strategies.
After having run across with this virtual reality platform while reading through the last week's article, I have been exploring it to see how I can facilitate it in my workplace. It's kinda Second Life application which might cause you to become virtual reality life addicts. Highly catchy, highly recommended :)
"Delivering Performance Feedback to Teachers" is an interactive and conversation-based training simulation that lets principals practice giving feedback to virtual teacher (avatars). I think the game is beyond helpful due to the fact as school leaders, it's hard to give a neutral feedback to the teachers from time to time, which may deter the leaders from giving it at all.
"Children learn best when the content is relevant to them and when they can connect new learning with old," says Marcia Baldanza, principal of Patrick Henry Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia. Finding the Velcro to make those connections can be challenging, but with games, it's easy."
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) is an program for K-12 school districts, state departments of education, regional service centers, teacher training institutions, and other educational organizations to enable them to provide effective online learning programs for teachers, administrators, and students.
Here is a free event: 'Net Nesliyle Yaşamak Sempozyumu' it is held in Maya Schools, 29th of March (this sunday). Anyone interested may apply and join the event :)
In its Policy Priorities report, Can Social Media and School Policies be "Friends," ASCD provides a state-of-the union on social media use in Schools. How administrators and educators deal with federal regulations, defining what's legal, parsing out School responsibilities and weighing them against the benefits of using social media to engage and communicate with students are all addressed in this useful guide.
I am not sure if this link is directly related to social media but this is an online conference about education and technology. Check out the link and register for free for the conference if you wish :)
"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 :)