SJR Teacher/Learners

Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Instructional Strategies

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

Technical competence

An educator needs to know how to use the technology of an era

Experimentation. Every teacher/educator should see herself as a researcher

Mediocre, scattershot training, apart from doing little to help students, is a burden for teachers.

“We should start where students’ weaknesses and shortcomings are and then seek strategies or techniques to help [teachers] understand those shortcomings.”

“But the heart of it has to be about planning for good instruction and evaluating teaching.”

This Is Your Brain on Metaphors

Technology will be more than just a tool – it will be the great enabler for commerce, collaboration, and communication.

most dramatic technology-enabled transformations are still ahead of us.

second part is the mobility we now have, so that the resources and connections are in our hands wherever we go

“It’s absolutely unbelievable how slow change occurs in a school system. Even if something is proven to be a great idea or something we should try, it takes a long, long time to change the whole thing—administration, teachers, parents, students. I almost expect things to look not too different in the next 10 to 15 years, unfortunately, and that’s not something that I wish.”

eSN Special Report: Empowering the iGeneration

it’s now easier than ever for students to start their own companies or collaborate with peers to solve the world’s problems.

With the clear partnership between Microsoft and Facebook, then, will Facebook become the new space for not just students but for students and teachers to work on class projects?

still see it as a distraction and a platform for stupid public disclosures by students and cyberbullying."

plagiarism is an act of fraud

And though the iPads have been in the building for only two months, an education revolution appears to be under way.

I actually do use Winthrop High School students are never far from their iPads, even using them during their lunch hours. A glance across the school cafeteria reveals iPads on almost every table. this for many academic purposes." Those include taking class notes and recording lecture audio in an app dubbed Evernote, using the iPad as planner and calendar, downloading and reading class materials in PDF form and writing papers.

How Is Technology Affecting Teaching and Learning?

If we were really serious about educational technology

how new media literacies can be cultivated in students, faculty and staff in ways that deepen our understanding of the world, the university and the community of education in which we live.

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education