SJR Teacher/Learners

So, what did Facebook announce this morning? Several things that will greatly appeal to its user base:

iGeners are almost universally plugged in. Ear buds hang from backpacks, and cell phones are stuffed into every pocket. Instant communication has replaced listening to messages, streaming video has replaced waiting for television shows to start, Xboxes have replaced Ataris, digital images have replaced negatives, and high-speed connections have replaced dial-up modems.

iGeners aren’t always the best students, however! Working quickly instead of carefully, they infosnack their way through class, flitting from instant experience to instant experience. Reading deeply, considering multiple perspectives and interacting with others in meaningful ways is pushed aside in a race for immediate gratification.

Build your skills and confidence in guiding kids through engineering activities, or in training other adults how to do the same.

How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5)

This fall, Burlington High School will transition to a 1:1 school exclusively with the iPad 2. One of the goals of this initiative is to slowly transition curriculum and textbooks to ePub format. ePub file format allows anyone to create a file that is readable on an iOS device or Kindle like a book

AVG surveyed mothers in North America (USA and Canada), the EU5 (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), Australia/New Zealand and Japan, and found that 81 percent of children under the age of two currently have some kind of digital profile or footprint, with images of them posted online. In the US, 92 percent of children have an online presence by the time they are two compared to 73 percent of children in the EU5.

Today's students are no longer the population our educational system was designed to teach. So how do I actively engage my students in learning situations that fulfill the requirements of higher education in the language and style of their digital culture?

a world renowned expert on the English language tackling the myths (as he sees it) of texting and Twitter corrupting the language and leading to a generation that cannot spell and finds it hard to express themselves in more than a few clipped sentences.

154 Ways to Use Moodle

How to Import a List of Emails into Your Gmail Contacts

20 Top Tweeters for Maths Teachers

This list of top tweeters is specifically designed with maths teachers in mind

For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.

one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,

As Mr. Share says in the signature file at the bottom of every e-mail he sends: “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”

Draw it Live is a free application that allows you to work together with other people to draw in real time.  You simply create a whiteboard and share its URL to allow other people to join in.

Wunderlist makes it downright simple to organize your daily life.

Capture sights, sounds, tastes, and anything else. Keep notes from your classes all in one place.

No matter how complex your school schedule is inClass will help you keep track of all your courses and even alert you before class so that you are never late again.

Best Practices in a Twitter-enhanced High School Classroom