Our challenge is to find ways to teach our children how to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, consciously and reflectively.
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Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age - 0 views
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the "one life" perspective says the opposite, that it is precisely our job as educators to help students live one, integrated life, by inviting them to not only use their technology at school, but also talk about it within the greater context of community and society.
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The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community
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ASCD Express 8.09 - The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network - 0 views
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Members of any profession need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues to understand and improve their skills. Face-to-face collaboration is personal, but is limited by boundaries of time and space. Participants must have a common time and place for collaboration. Digital collaboration has no bounds of time or space, and collaboration can take place anytime with anyone, anywhere.
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Technology is not a generational thing, it is a learning thing. It may be outside many educators’ comfort zones, but comfort zones are the biggest obstacles to education reform.
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The time has come for educators to accept that they no longer have a choice about technology. To maintain relevance as educators, they need to employ relevant technology learning tools for education, connect and collaborate with other professionals to improve their skills and knowledge within their profession, and use PLNs to improve their profession and hold off the barbarian politicians and business people banging down the gates of education
40 Ways to Use Google Apps in Education ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views
Educational Technology and ICT ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views
One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views
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the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and refreshing notebooks every three to four years would be prohibitive
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surveyed the 155 eighth-graders participating in the pilot, they learned something interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
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IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
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When It Comes to Education Technology, Video Won't Kill the Radio Star | Emerging Educa... - 0 views
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Emerging technologies are not limiting teacher’s roles – they are expanding their tool kits, improving their availability, and empowering them in many exciting new ways.
10 Major Technology Trends in Education -- THE Journal - 0 views
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The 2013 results represent more than 400,000 surveys from 9,000 schools and 2,700 districts across the country. Respondents included 325,279 students, 32,151 teachers and librarians, 39,986 parents, 4,530 district administrators and, new to this year’s survey, 1,346 community members.
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89 percent of high schools students have access to Internet-connected smart phones, while 50 percent of students in grades 3 through 5 have access to the same type of devices
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students are designing “best-fit” solutions for their very specific needs.
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"10 Major Technology Trends in Education"
Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Shou... - 0 views
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“Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
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e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
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“I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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The Curriculum Meets Educational Technology: Avoiding Tech Shine | Tech Learning - 0 views
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"The Curriculum Meets Educational Technology: Avoiding Tech Shine"
A Great New Technology Integration Matrix for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mob... - 0 views
Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views
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Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
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Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
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They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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10 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers and Educators ~ Educational Technology and Mo... - 0 views
http://mediawisesolutions.com/Education%20and%20Technology%20-%20Manitoba%20Action%20an... - 0 views
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Education and Technology - Manitoba Action and Reflection Released yesterday. The eBook is now available in from iBooks and a pdf version from this link
How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System - Joel Rose - Busi... - 0 views
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Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
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Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
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our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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Part 2: Digital Citizenship Education… Over 20 Essential Resources | 21 st Ce... - 0 views
What the iPad (and other technology) can't replace in education - The Answer Sheet - Th... - 0 views
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Technology is great. I love my iPhone. It can do all sorts of things, but making me a better dancer isn’t one of them. Every day parents ask their kids, “What did you learn today?” It’s never “How did you learn it?” or “On what device did you learn it?” but always, “What?” Yet so long as the answer to that doesn’t change, neither will educational outcomes.
9 Educational Technologies That are Most Exciting Right Now (2016-17 Update) - Emerging... - 0 views
An Excellent Collection of Educational Rubrics to Help You Integrate Technology in Your... - 0 views
What Will Education Look Like in 2020? | EdTech Magazine - 2 views
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the idea that technology will save education (as opposed to the idea that relevance will).
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The reason that so many schools are struggling with the change technology represents is because they haven’t adjusted to this shift, to the emergence of participatory, user-driven technologies and social media as viable communicative and collaborative tools.
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