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Leslie Lieman

The Driven Classroom: New Strategies to Motivate and Engage Students - 1 views

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    Education Week PD Webinars (yes, there is a fee to register). > Developing Intrinsic Motivation in Students with Chris Wejr and Larry Ferlazzo March 5, 2013 at 4pm ET > Intentional Teaching: Infusing Instruction With Purpose with Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey March 20, 2013 at 2pm ET >Daniel Pink on How Teachers Can 'Sell' More to Students April 9, 2013 at 2pm ET
Chris Dede

5 K-12 Technology Trends to Watch in 2013 -- THE Journal - 2 views

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    What is hot, and by implication what is not
Chris Dede

NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition | The New Media Consortium - 0 views

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    Gamification is one of their high impact technologies
Kim Frumin

12 Trends That Will Rule Products in 2013 - 1 views

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    Though geared to the for-profit tech and design industry, this article describes what designers at Ziba learned in 2012. How might we apply these insights to education?
Brandon Pousley

Wearable soundscape from Canada - 1 views

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    Wearable technology seems to be gaining popularity... Here's a link to the NYTimes profile of Memoto, the new life-logging camera featured at SXSW. The company was founded in 2011 and has raised close to a million dollars in financing through Kickstarter and from European investors. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/meet-memoto-the-lifelogging-camera/?ref=technology
Maria Anaya

Giving Good Praise to Girls: What Messages Stick | MindShift - 0 views

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    Hi Maria! Thanks for this posting! It was really interesting to read. I totally agree--it's important to give our girls the same praises that we give our boys in the classroom so that they both feel empowered and capable. This is also an interesting site to check out--- http://www.forbes.com/sites/deniserestauri/2013/05/01/why-the-ripple-effect-for-change-starts-with-educating-girls/
Malik Hussain

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf - 1 views

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    Thanks for sharing this Malik. I was wondering about accessibility in the middle of the report. Then when I came to wearable technology and the list of products available, I realized that there's so much more we could do for students who have special physical needs.
Xiaodi Chen

Amherst College Turns Down edX | EdSurge News - 1 views

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    Rethinking MOOCs
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    Thanks for sharing, Xiaodi! Here's a related story about Duke University's participation in online learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/education/duke-university-leaves-semester-online.html?ref=education&_r=0
Maurice Joyce

AMA Wire - AMA grant to fund virtual patient cases for medical student training - 1 views

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    Part of the American Medical Associations' attempt to increase engagement in medical education.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline of PCs - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    "Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, estimated that Mr. Cook's prediction would come true in 2017, but others contend tablets will be on top sooner than that. For example, in a blog post on Friday, Horace Dediu, an analyst with Asymco in Finland, made a detailed argument that tablet sales would pass traditional PC sales in the fall of 2013.
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    Developers of electronic textbooks and educational games would do well to focus on the tablet platform, which is predicted to become dominant in the next 2 to 3 years. This means that we would need to be fully prepared to leverage the affordances of the tablet technology in delivering our products. .
Chris Dede

Girls and Games: What's the Attraction? | MindShift - 0 views

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    Ensuring games are engaging for both genders
Chris Dede

Gallup: Student Engagement Drops With Each Grade - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 2 views

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    This affirms decades of similar findings
Brandon Pousley

Wearable Tech And Augmented Reality - 1 views

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    NPR podcast about wearable technology and the evolution and adoption of Augmented Reality devices.
Leslie Lieman

Education Week Teacher: Cultivating a Positive Environment for Students - 1 views

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    Back to the basics: "Studies show that positive feelings can enhance students' attention and higher-order thinking skills, as well as encouraging perseverance."
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