Free Technology for Teachers: New Google in Education Ebook and Website - 1 views
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Yesterday, the Google Apps for Education team published a new ebook (PDF) titled A New and Open World for Learning. A New and Open World for Learning is all about using Google's products and services in education. The ebook is clearly a marketing vehicle for Google Apps for Education, but you will find some good examples of and ideas for using Google apps in your school.
Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators - 0 views
For 'Connected Educator Month,' Tips From 33 Educators We Admire - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Schools are doing Education 1.0; talking about doing Education 2.0; when they should be... - 0 views
Education 3.0: Altering Round Peg in Round Hole Education | User Generated Education - 2 views
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Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age - 0 views
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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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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
The Education Technologies That Educators Believe Can Have The Biggest Impact On Studen... - 2 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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CEM: Getting Started | Connected Educators - 0 views
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"Never been part of an online professional community or network? Already part of a community or network, but want to be more connected? The CEM Starter Kit can help you on both fronts. Written by The Connected Educator author Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Powerful Learning Practice in collaboration with the Connected Educators initiative, and loaded with helpful links and embedded videos, the kit takes a 31 days approach for this special month, giving you one simple way to get more connected every day. Please feel free to pass it along to any friend or colleague you think could benefit from getting more connected!"
The Top 50 Education Blogs Every Teacher and Educator Should Know about ~ Educational T... - 0 views
The Barriers To Using Social Media In Education (Part 1 of 2) - Edudemic - 1 views
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2012-13, The US department of Commerce ranked 55 industry sectors for their IT intensiveness, education ranked lowest (below coal mining). Education industry that bears the responsibility to prepare children for the world of tomorrow, itself is not ready to embrace the digital revolution with an open mind.
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Indeed there are some real risks attached with children using social media and it can’t be taken lightly. But there are also dangers in crossing a road. Do we tell our kids not to cross the road? No, we don’t! We hold their hand and tell them how to do it.
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So irrespective of whether or not you as an institution are ready to embrace the new digital ways of teaching, the revolution is already happening. If educators are left behind on social media, they will also fail in the simple role of being cultivators of curiosity.
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