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in title, tags, annotations or urlSchools | State of EdTech | EdSurge - 0 views
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Yes, technology plays an important role in today’s classrooms. While the pace of change has accelerated, however, one constant remains the same: Good teachers are critical to delivering an effective learning experience
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Technology can play a critical role—but only when the technology supports the approach, the teaching philosophy and the goals that educators, students and families have agreed matters the most.
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- What's Your Favorite Transformative Tool of 2011? - 3 views
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What's Your Favorite Transformative Tool of 2011? Dec 22 Written by: 12/22/2011 2:02 AM As we near the end of 2011, I thought I would invite you to add to this post by linking and reflecting on the tools that have most transformed your classrooms this year.
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Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 2 views
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Increased Motivation and Self Esteem The most common--and in fact, nearly universal--teacher-reported effect on students was an increase in motivation. Teachers and students are sometimes surprised at the level of technology-based accomplishment displayed by students who have shown much less initiative or facility with more conventional academic tasks:
Apple Pushes To Put Interactive Textbooks On iPads : NPR - 0 views
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Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them.
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Apple also released iBooks Author, a new tool meant to lure publishers into creating new content specifically for the iPad education user.
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even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.
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Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Map View - 0 views
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Education Week's Digital Directions: Whiteboards' Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven - 0 views
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“What makes it worthwhile are the interactive features and getting the kids at the board to connect with the material, because on the whiteboard you can present it in a way you cannot do with a chalkboard or overhead projector,” says Gilley, who began teaching a decade ago after a career in business. The ability to present multimedia material that is verbal, visual, auditory, and interactive, she says, is essential to draw today’s students into the subject matter.
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teachers who don’t know how or refuse to use them
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The teachers who were most effective using the whiteboards displayed many of the characteristics of good teaching in general: They paced the lesson appropriately and built on what students already knew; they used multiple media, such as text, pictures, and graphics, for delivering information; they gave students opportunities to participate; and they focused mainly on the content, not the technology.
How Does Age Affect Web Use? - 1 views
Why Is Project-Based Learning Important? :: TESOL/TESL/TEFL/EFL/ESOL/ESL Resources :: Articles | Ebooks | Games | Links | Forum | Toelf iBT | Toeic - 0 views
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Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills (reading, writing, and math) and Digital Age skills (teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high-tech tools). With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher.