A video doing the rounds in which a US high school student complains bitterly about the teaching approach used. i.e. hand out packets, read. He wants the teacher to teach, to engage the students.
A lesson there about what's acceptable teaching strategies.
But more broadly, there's a lesson here about the spread of smart phones with video. What happens in your classroom can be recorded and made public. The classroom may not be as private as you think.
A typical knee-jerk response may be to ban the use of device. What are the chances of that actually working? How well has it worked in schools today? What about using these tools as part of student learning?
From Edudemic, this has a visual that is good for students to see the main five things associated with digital citizenship, in Jeff Dunn's opinion. I liked it. Good for special ed and younger students.
Shared by Jeff Dunn, from his Edudemic blog that used Symbaloo which was created by user Icobbs detailing 50 great classroom tools that are easy to implement into just about any classroom. Including Stixy (wait, what?) - check it out.
This 3 min video tutorial shows how to use the digital tool Padlet. I found it on the ETMOOC diigo site which I am subscribed to. Michelle Poulter posted about Wallwisher (now known as Padlet) on her blog also.
Just read David's bookmark for Mural.ly. Blog post is here http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4972
The author says Murally reminds him of Padlet. Google docs for visual learners. Interesting.
Edudemic blog by Hanna Shekhter on how and why teachers should blog. This site has heaps of other posts that are also fantastic regarding technology and worth a look.
Got this on Twitter. Worth looking at thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn using Vimeo. Directed at teachers and parents.