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Increasing technology trends in higher education

Statistics on the adoption of educational technologies in higher education

"As a mobile learning device, the iPod Touch encourages learning anytime, anywhere! These mobile devices do not tie students to their desks or the classroom; they bring the world into the classroom through the lens of personalized learning. The value of an iPod Touch as a mobile learning device is its ability to transform student learning behavior. According to research by K-Nect Project (2009), students using this digital device achieved higher test scores. This was attributed to more interactivity between students, teachers, and content."

Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student's blogs.

Multimedia copyright guidelines from the Chronicle of Higher Education

Too much hyperbole, but more or less the direction we are heading with education.

TED-ED helps with flipped classrooms.

read it later is rebranded as Pocket. This is a great series of apps for reading online articles later when you're offline.

rules for using twitter and good examples of college professors using twitter well.

Using the ipad for teaching and learning

creating backchannels with Twitter from ThatCamp

teaching with twitter

Internet access and technology integration statistics in Utah

Quality does not lend itself to government regulation because there is no simple metric.

screencasting on an ipad. Looks like explain everything is the best one currently.

track changes and edit Word docs on your ipad

a cool way to schedule tweets with buffer.