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It really comes down to the tool fitting the task and learning target. An understanding of the SAMR Model allows educators to reflect on their own progress while investigating ways to use educational technology in a useful and productive way.

come-from-behind win

how he pulled it off

posted on Facebook and Twitter where it was re-posted and tweeted by thousands of fans, reaching far more people than just traditional media watchers alone.

Now more than ever, educators are coming forward and speaking about the benefits of using Twitter, and why they personally endorse it.

While a lot of this activity comes directly from demands of one's employer, Toronto-based life coach Joshua Zuchter said much of it is also a matter of personal choice.

Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.

Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say

“By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”

around 2025 that amount should let us buy equivalent of one human brain and by around 2050 an equivalent of all human brains!  I share the two graphs just to emphasize that the pace of change will only increase and all our predictions about evolution of Learning Technology could come true sooner than later

main differences between praise and encouragement is that praise often comes paired with a judgment or evaluation

Laptops make learning and schoolwork more interesting, students and teachers said.

Writing test scores have improved

Freeport math skills have jumped

Now, the coming months will bring a blizzard of tablets that are meant to compete with the iPad

the shocker here, though, is that the iPad 2 actually costs less than its comparably equipped Android rivals, like the Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

teaching isn’t about content and it’s not about technology. It’s about kids, about building relationships with them, about believing in them, about finding out what they can do and then providing opportunities for them to do it.

Know your students, have faith in their capacities, and magical things will happen.

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Readers, how do you find quality educational apps? What changes would you make to the app stores to give consumers better information, particularly when it comes to educational apps?

Because iPads deal with pdfs so easily, teachers can share out their assignments as .pdfs, either via their websites, qr codes, email, etc.    

  We have Google Apps, including email, so one option is students emailing their assignments to the teacher.

But the happiest and most powerful benefit of all is seeing all the staff and students coming together to problem solve.   Students helping teachers with utilizing an app, students sharing apps with one another, teachers showing other teachers new methods for doing things, teachers sharing with students, and tech staff and library staff all in the mix as well.  

requires sophisticated searching and processing skills

many users have not been taught how to make appropriate decisions

we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens