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Teacher Training | News Most Professional Development 'Sporadic, Short Term, and Divorced from Teaching and Student Achievement' Professional development should provide teachers with continuous feedback and opportunities to collaborate and coach each other, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress.
The iPad is the king of the mountain when it comes to school officials' current use of mobile technology, according to a new survey of district officials, who also offered their preferences for the kinds of apps they want to see in classrooms. More than 80 percent of district technology officials said districts use or plan to use iPads over the next year or two, according to the results released by Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc.
Presidential campaigns implement extensive efforts to capture the youth vote by posting huge amounts of information on the Internet. This lessons combines students, social media, and politics.
Boise State University's EdTech program uses Moodle as a social networking site in all of its classes. It allows students to share work and to comment on each others' work.
Nancy Kaplan and Ananda Gunawardena write about the use of Classroom Salon, a social media network designed for collaboration in the higher education setting. They found that Classroom Salon was not effective in helping students in the chemistry class, but was in the biology class.
Jeff Jarvis, a professor at City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, gathered a conference that discussed the use of alternative media for reporting news. Blogs with comment sections seemed to be the main technology of course for the conference participants.
http://truthy.indiana.edu/ is a project that analyzes tweets to understand how information diffuses on Twitter. A collaboration between professors and students that uses Twitter to uncover the spread of information and disinformation about public issues.
Rey Junco, a faculty associate now at Harvard conducted a class that taught college students how to use Twitter. It was successful in showing that Twitter can aid in education.
The Stanford University Facebook page is a place that Stanford uses to share information about research projects that are occurring among their students and faculty. There are hundreds of entries including one about She++, a group promoting programming among women and another post about great white sharks.
http://arxiv.org/ is a social networking site that is hosted by Cornell University Library. It is used to share working papers and to actually publish academic papers. It is widely used in the quantitative sciences and is beginning to displace actual journals.
Mark Frydenberg, a lecturer at Bentley University, has a project were students collaborate on doing a presentation with other students in Romania. They use Facebook and Twitter to connect and YouTube to post videos that they create for the project.
Purdue University has used an application called Hotseat which piggybacks off of existing social networks in two classes. Students can send messages to Hotseat via Facebook or Twitter. Students used this tool to comment to each other and the professor during class.
This site explains how facebook was setup at one learning center and some of the perceived accomplishments. It indicates increased communication and promotion of services and events with community.