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Why Incorporate Technology? - 2 views

  • There are many fundamental reasons for incorporating technology in the classroom:
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One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • Google Apps' ­productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access ­reading materials and other course ­content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
  • To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
  • Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to ­incorporate technology into their curriculum
  • Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
  • offers five blended high school courses in English and health education
  • Early BYOD Adopters Share Lessons Learned
  • Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
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Actually, teachers DON'T have to learn technology - Redefining my role: Teacher as student - 2 views

  • t “most teachers” just don’t put in the effort to incorporate technology into their instruction. I would have to agree, but I think it’s important to ask, “Why should they?”
  • Or do they?… Are their colleagues telling them they have to? Are their administrators telling them they have to? Are the parents telling them they have to? If not, then they don’t have to learn it.
  • I believe it is our responsibility as educators to integrate technology into instruction as much as we are able to
Phil Taylor

This Time It's Personal -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • for the most part, schools have incorporated these 21st century instructional techniques and tools as add-ons to the teacher-centric 19th century classroom structure, in which the majority of the curriculum is pulled from a textbook, and, despite best intentions, most students learn the same thing in the same way at the same time.
  • what exactly is personalized learning? And why is technology so central to its outcomes?
  • personalized learning as an instructional approach that encompasses both differentiation and individualization, but is also flexible in content or theme to match the specific interests and prior experiences of learners
Phil Taylor

A Two-Gear Construct for Envisioning Blended Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

  • CFY, conducted a pilot in 2011-12 that worked with teachers on incorporating blended learning into their classrooms. Our goal was not technological but pedagogical.
  • Envision these cycles as gears that are interlocked and running as one to drive student achievement and student ownership of learning. Neither of these cycles requires technology, but both are greatly enhanced by using technology.
  • Shifting Prominence of Each Gear from K-12
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Googlize your Lessons: A nice wiki with simple ideas for incorporating Google Apps (RT ... - 2 views

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    Take your old worksheets, slide shows, and web quests and add a twist of Google to make creative, collaborative, and engaging lessons!
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6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
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Smartphones: From Toy to Tool | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Tabscott, Mettler, and Matthews suggest that you follow these steps to begin incorporating smartphones into classroom activities.
Phil Taylor

6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom - 0 views

  • Deeper Learning incorporates technology purposefully to enhance, rather than automate learning.
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Full STEAM Ahead: Why Arts Are Essential in a STEM Education | Edutopia - 0 views

  • True STE(A)M education means that students are creating, applying, and incorporating mathematics and at least one of the other content areas into their work. Not every project is going to include every letter in STEM, but ideally, they should allow for the integration of at least two of them
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