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Edtech Cheat Sheet - what do different terms mean

"Edtech is important because it is transformative. Because it has the potential to amplify (or mitigate) innovations across the field of higher education (and beyond). It is our responsibility to take this seriously, and to do what is best for our students above all else."

"Project 252 is a crowdsourcing project that will run during 2015. Every 2 weeks for the 52 weeks of the year (hence 252) we will focus on one letter of the alphabet (starting with A and going through to Z). For the two weeks that each letter is featured, participants will be invited to submit the details of an EdTech Tool (for instance, an app, Web 2.0 service, software package, etc.) that begins with that letter. All submissions will be compiled into an A-Z Directory of EdTech Tools that is searchable by a number of criteria. "

Not sure I agree with the list, but it's useful to look through

Found this guy's channel while trying to learn more about google docs. He has  a number of videos explaining how to use various technology in the classroom. Might be useful for those of use trying to get our head around what we can use, when and how.

Links to loads of articles on education and technology. Fantastic site.

Blog about 21st century teaching: Part 1 is on PBL, STEM, Common Core Series (April 23, 2013).

Post from an assistive technology consultant about a Chrome browser plugin to help struggling readers when using Google docs.

Web page based on a presentation that talks about the use of digital technology in teaching, with a specific focus on preparation and responding to problems. Some good content for preparing for Professional Experience and preparing your Part B essay for Assignment 3.

Web page based on a presentation that talks about the use of digital technology in teaching, with a specific focus on preparation and responding to problems. Some good content for preparing for Professional Experience and preparing your Part B essay for Assignment 3.

This could be useful for our assignments.

Erin Klein is well known for being an award winning educator, a national keynote speaker and achieved her masters in education. She provides information to her readers about creative ways to amp up lessons, keeping organised and gives tips and tricks for classroom activities and using ICT's.

Kathy Cassidy writes and shares a video about what risks are acceptable to take when teaching children new tasks such as reading and writing. The idea that risk taking is apart of teaching is hard not to agree with. All students are individual and have a different way of learning, so approaching activities with different mindsets can be quite daunting. As teachers, she writes that we need to grasp the idea of the work risk-taking.

Erin Klein's blog post '3 Reasons to Use Bing in the Classroom' raises many issues of child safety on the Internet. One of her fears are what students will come across while independently researching Bing. She stresses that teachers not only need to teach students how to use ICT's but how to be 'digitally responsible'.

This document discusses the use of iPads in schools and how benificial they can be when teachers and students are trained to use them correctly. 

For those of you doing mathematics