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"1. Disconnect to connect: la tecnología nos acerca a personas que están a miles de kilómetros, pero como nos muestra este vídeo, a veces nos separa de los que tenemos tan cerca... 2. Una manera muy especial de aprender inglés: en este vídeo podemos ver como los protagonistas usan las posibilidades que ofrecen las nuevas tecnologías para aprender inglés de una manera muy especial, eficaz y emotiva. 3. El mejor adivino de la historia: vídeo para hacer ver a nuestros alumnos los peligros que se esconden detrás de las redes sociales. 4. Book: este vídeo nos da a conocer de una manera muy original un producto revolucionario, el book. 5. Social Media Guard: este anuncio nos hace ver como día a día empleamos de una manera inapropiada los dispositivos móviles. Pero no se queda ahí, propone una solución a la que esperemos no tener que llegar. 6. ¿Con la tablet?: vídeo muy divertido que nos hará ver que no todo se puede hacer con las nuevas tecnologías."

Un informe (resumen ejecutivo) centrado en investigar como se pueden usar los medios sociales para fomentar el surgimiento y el mantenimiento de entornos que favorezcan la educación conectada.

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

"1. Blogging enables reflection. This is true for both students and educators. Too often do we go through our days, class to class, with minimal opportunities for reflection on our experiences or the information that we have acquired along the way. Blogging offers the opportunity to take a step back and connect with our learning and place it in the context of the bigger picture. Make reflection an assignment or part of another assignment - it is an important component to learning. For students: This is not the easiest thing to accomplish - blogging takes time and that is a finite resource during a busy class period. There is great opportunity in academic support periods or advisory classes for students (particularly in 1:1 schools) to blog. Many advisory classes take place throughout the day, which is a great break point for students to create based on their learning from that day. For teachers: This type of reflection can and should be compiled into your lesson planning for future lessons. Take what you learned from teaching and learning that day and incorporate it into the next day's lessons. Find time to do this during a conference period during your day or right after school. Yes, it is tough to get in the habit of doing a new thing - but once you start using reflection through blogging, I think that your lesson planning will be easier and much more meaningful. 2. Develop an Authentic Audience An authentic audience is a great way to increase rigor and in all of my experiences has led to increased performance by students. Authentic audiences in blogging could mean any number of things - family members, students from other classes, students from other buildings, other teachers, individuals interested in the content from around the world, etc. A student knowing that their work may be seen by people other than what they consider their 'typical audience' (read: teacher) typically spends more time and exerts more effort to creating a quality p

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"1. The teacher is choosing the technology. It's not always possible, but when you can, let the students choose, and see what happens. Not all of them will be able to. Some need help; so let other students help them. 2. The teacher is choosing the function. This doesn't mean you can't choose the function, but if you students can't control the technology the use nor its function, this can be problematic: the learning is passive from the beginning. 3. The teacher is determining the process. To an extent you have to, but don't overdo it. 4. The technology is distracting. If the technology is more magical than the project, product, collaboration, process, or content itself, try to muffle the bells and whistles. Or use them to your advantage. 5. The technology isn't necessary. You wouldn't use a ruler to teach expository writing, nor would you use a Wendell Berry essay to teach about the Water Cycle. No need for a Khan Academy account and a fully-personalized and potentially self-directed proficiency chart of mathematical concepts just to show a 3 minute video on the number line. 6. The process is too complex. Keep it simple. Fewer moving parts = greater precision. And less to go wrong. 7. Students have access to too much. What materials, models, peer groups, or related content do students actually need? See #6. 8. The teacher is the judge, jury, and executioner. Get out of the way. You're (probably) less interesting than the content, experts, and communities (if you're doing it right). 9. They artificially limiting the scale. Technology connects everything to everything. Use this to the advantage of the students! 10. They're not limiting the scale. However, giving students the keys to the universe with no framework, plan, boundaries or even vague goals is equally problematic. 11. Students access is limited to too little. The opposite of too board a scale is too little-akin to taking students to the ocean to fish but squaring of

"Our smartphones enable-and encourage-constant connection to information, entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides. Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost. In this research, we test the "brain drain" hypothesis that the mere presence of one's own smartphone may occupy limited-capacity cognitive resources, thereby leaving fewer resources available for other tasks and undercutting cognitive performance. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention-as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones-the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare."

"5 herramientas de videoconferencia (sabemos que hay muchas más) con el objetivo de conocer las características, ventajas y desventajas que presenta cada una de ella para ayudarnos a elegir la más adecuada para nuestro contexto, la formación en Red: Hangouts, Adobe Connect, WiZiqQ, Blue Jeans y SkypeEn base a esto, en las siguientes diapositivas os presentamos las ventajas y desventajas que extraídas de cada una de las herramientas: En conclusión, de las herramientas analizadas, según el objetivo de nuestra conferencia podría ser viable cualquiera de ellas. Por ejemplo, si nuestro público va a ser reducido y se pretende una inscripción previa, Blue Jeans es una muy buena opción. Si lo que queremos es hacer una reunión de trabajo o coordinación con equipo docente Skype o Hangouts parecen ser las más adecuadas. Si vamos a organizar una videoconferencia con una duración breve y con una participación y/o asistencia moderada WiziQ puede ser tu herramienta. Si lo que se pretende es que esa videoconferencia sea masiva y abierta al máximo público, así como disponer del vídeo automáticamente al finalizar en YouTube, Hangouts de Google es una de las mejores opciones por las posibilidades que ofrece, la conexión con otras herramientas y por su capacidad de difusión y alcance."

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