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For those of you interested on the convergence of education and technology, check out http://www.convergemag.com/. It's part of the Center for Digital Education that focuses on the news, perspectiv...
For those of you interested on the convergence of education and technology, check out http://www.convergemag.com/. It's part of the Center for Digital Education that focuses on the news, perspectiv...
Florida Educational Technology Conference has a FREE virtual conference at the end of October where one of the sessions is on Tech for Tots: Using Technologies to Enhance Early Learning Thought ...
Interesting example of online classes! Daphne demonstrates the impact online education can have visually and then demonstrates its benefits as she walks through her experience with Coursera.
This article profiles some top Open Educational Resources including the Khan Academy-sponsored SmARThistory.org, a group-study platform, free or low-cost digital textbooks, and other cool ideas. ...
http://k12blueprint.com/k12/blueprint/story_video_bridging_our_future.php Occurred to me that it is interesting to map some of the similarities between the Microsoft video we saw in class, today, ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/science/field-testing-the-math-apps.html?ref=education There are so many apps out there, but who knows which ones work? WGBH brought iPads into a preschool clas...
Found this blog post that links to a variety of different AR projects. Check them out! http://interactyx.com/social-learning-blog/20-augmented-reality-experiments-in-education/
Although he doesn't talk about Technology specifically, I believe the paradigm shift in education for which Sir Ken Robinson advocates is made possible by the collaboration that technology affords....
Brian Bennett is a flipped classroom educator who runs the #flipclass chat on Twitter every Monday night at 8pm EST. Good opportunity to learn more about what flipped classroom is and its evolutio...
Hi T561-ers! Wishing you luck on wrapping up your projects tonight! I came across this website which has platforms to create apps, games, etc, for the classroom. It is a little pricey but it is a g...
Opponents say it will "dilute the quality of instruction by doing away with the teachers in certain classes." Agree or disagree? http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2011/09/landmark_online...
Report: Schools Should Move from Print to Digital Content by 2017
when more engagement leads to more personalized learning
Part 3 of 3. Recently, Virginia has implemented an iPad study program (Link: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/virginia_schools_launch_ipad_study_program/) and it got me thinking about the pr...
If you can't find what you want, then build it! I love to see schools seeing and meeting their individual needs and extending it outside the school walls to include the parents. http://www.newsch...
T561, I'm looking for ideas. I'm helping to develop a training for teachers in an inner city school. The training involves the Teaching for Understanding with Technology Framework and I want to c...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/04/13/can-you-mooc-your-way-through-college-one-year-can-you-mooc-your-way-through-college-one-year/lAPwwe2OYNLbP9EHitgc3L/story.html
Both the general nature of this portal: Coursera.org and the content of this course specifically are very relevant to this course.
I followed a link from Cole Shaw's EduRobots article. This one explores the significance of attention in learning and how to maintain it. Bilge Mutlu and Dan Szafir at the University of Wisconsin-M...