Group items tagged

Interview on NPR's Fresh Air with MIT professor on ways in which digital usage effects teens and adults differently. It also highlights challanges presented to teens by needing to constantly create a digital persona

Thank you for reminding me of the wonderful resources on NPR. I need to delve deeper into this site!

Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. Many countries outperform the US in terms of education and moving toward digital forms of education is a way the US can get back in the game, so to speak.

Educational technology journalist, Audrey Watters, explains that although a large percentage of people have cellular devices, only a small percentage of those are smart phones. She also speaks on the digital divide of only being able to access internet on your phone and not a home computer for a small percentage of Americans. She concludes that online learning places need to be expanded for mobile devices if we wish to include everyone in the digital age.

Seth Godin,STOP STEALING DREAMS, discuss eight things he feels will change as a result of the digital revolution. These include: use of flip school model, evalutaing experience not test scores. precise focused education in place of mass produced curriculum, teacher as coach, 24/7 course access, life long learning and the end of compliance as an outcome. He ends with the question "What is school for?"

Great post and summary, John!

This website has links and descriptions to several very cool, and actually useful sites. It contains nice categorization. A blog that will be updates with new info!

This is a great article that describes using technology to extend the learning of our students in a social studies classroom. Emphasis is placed on the importance of using technology to make our teaching better and that teachers must be involved in a constant and consistent training program. The article highlights some great web-based sources for social studies teachers such as the Virginia Center for Digital History.

Stephanie: I like how this article doesn't leave the content behind. It was a wonderful "reinforcement" of the idea that technology needs to help and support the learning in a new way. Great find.

This is a website providing many articles about technology in the classroom. The articles vary from distance education, to visual media, to acess and the digital divide, etc. This website can provide insight for the most successful ways we can all incorporate technology.

Wonderful resource, Emily. I hope you added this to your RESOURCES page on your Google site!

Technology is allowing for eductaion to become personilized and competency based. Online tools allow cirriculum to be delivered to the students and at peronalized pace with personal goals and structure. Students are different and I like the idea of allowing students to progress according to their ability.

I like this idea, too. Personalized pacing is key to my own learning.

This article is exactly what the title describes. 10 technologies that educators should know about. I bookmarked another article which dives further into the concept of "flip teaching", which is not so much a technology but a method.

You'll want to come back to this assignment for your Digital Skills Presentation! I couldn't believe all of the links--hopefully, you tied some to your resources on your site.

This article discusses the impact technology has on k-12 classrooms. The technology revolution has forced teachers to move from the front of the classroom to the center. It has forced teachers to differentiate their instruction , get to know their students, and create digital learning materials.