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This article is one I wrote a couple years ago that I believe is relevant for this course - it was published in International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. The link is to the whole issue - mine starts on page 21. Thanks - Becky

This blog entry provides us with very useful ideas of using Twitter in education.

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all.

This article describes ways to use twitter to enhance academic work. With twitter, the class goes on beyond the assigned class period because (i) the technology is appealing, (ii) students have much to say/ask, (iii) students can 'talk' without concern for "who's (physically) in class that might make fun of me", and (iv) students respond in their own time. Twitter has the dual benefits of quasi-synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Some interesting applications. Maybe I need to reconsider.

Do Popular Social Networking Applications Have A Place In The Classroom? A Growing Number Of Educators Say 'Yes'. The post, "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter", is one of the most consistently viewed article on this site. Similarly, "Facebook As An Instructional Technology Tool", resulted in the 2nd most trafficked day here in 2010.

Awesome article! Thank you.

Article links technology to constructivism

How G Suite was implemented in Chicago Public Schools and NY Times' article about it. Read this a few years ago and it has stuck with me since. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html

Helpful presentation on using technology to effectively teach music online.

This paper raises serious doubts regarding the success of our educational system in preparing students for the knowledge society. According to the author the knowledge economy "...holds the promise of changing, to our benefit, some of the most deep-seated and universal regularities of economic life and of dramatically enhancing productivity and growth. Its effects, however, have so far proved modest." The disruption brought by the new technologies can cause an even bigger inequality in societies. Worth thinking about it.

Tech tools for librarians. Some of them are for younger students, but there some good options for older students as well.

Some good technology tools for math.

Thought I share some cool tools to use in classroom #TT1941

These are some great ideas! Thanks for sharing. I like that many of them extend to multiple disciplines. #TT1941

Thank you for sharing!! This has some really wonderful ideas!

TT2331 Milana Herman

Not only for the assignment, but found this to be pretty interesting.

Very interesting list of resources to use in the class. I already use the NewsEla & Radio Ambulante

Claudio Sanchez #TT1251 Technology Reaches Remote/Isolated Locations

This was a very interesting article. I perused the comments and it is very evident that there is still a high degree of skepticism with online education.

"Facebook pages for college classes? Students say yes, please"

Superior collection of videos by and for teachers of all levels.

This search tool is wonderful! It allows the clinican to input patient data and search most likely diagnosis as well as providing red flags on questions and conditions which must be considered. It is a valuable tool to improve clinical decision making,

I hear complaints about the poor quality of student writing today as often as I read stories about the Internet causing the end of higher education as we know it (i.e., frequently). When those complaints come in the form of actual conversations with peers, instead of in print, I feel myself immediately put on the defensive.

Thanks for this post Heather. I liked that the instructor recognized that despite some challenges with using a new technique to promote his students' writing skills the energy that was expressed by his students far outweighed the "mess" that he dealt with the first time trying something new.

The lack of learning transfer is a common mantra in higher education. It's a good article for reflection. Although I've been a proponent of service learning, at the same time, I wasn't sure how students could or if they would transfer their experiences to the academic component. Now, I need to rethink my position on service learning and its impact on connected learning