Technology_In_Education_ (Summer_2012)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology Classroom. Instructional programs to effectively integrate technology in the classroom through "Connected Tech." Modules for the teacher include internet, power of integration Language arts and others.

Article is about how a school integrated technology successfully.

This journal produces a measurement invariance analysis of how much gender differences affect the intention to use technology.

This website is quite efficient as a way for students to hand in assignments to teachers. This is a tool I would explore using in my future classroom. Teachers can also use this website to create their own pages. This is especially helpful as a different kind of instructional tool. Students can go on the internet and view the next day's lesson on the internet. This is the way of the future and we will definitely see more this.

Today's Meet is an online, real time meeting place for online collaboration. It's free (as far as I know), and seems really user friendly. 

Today's Meet seems like a scaled-down version of Skype and I really like that! It would be helpful for me to use this with fellow teachers and my students. We could use this virtual meeting place as a way to not have to make the commute to school if the weather isn't necessarily permitting. I'm sure my students would find this website as efficient as I do.

Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology The international DO-IT Center promotes the success of individuals with disabilities in postsecondary education and careers, using technology as an empowering tool. In collabortive groups DO-IT exercises use active participation by using assistive technologies as well as supporting issues in the sciences and mathmetical models for learning. Their site may be accessed through various links by: involvement, current news issues, search bars and topics. A great site that encourages empowerment through knowledge provided and established by the University of Washington.

There will be many diverse students in my classroom and I will have to prepare for their different abilities. This website is quite helpful in teaching me how I could help my students boost their confidence when they use different technological mediums. I can also navigate my students towards this website, so they can learn about technology through it. This is an effecient website and I would use it in my future classroom.

This site lets you share papers or notes from courses you have taken with others. You can make study groups and work with others. You can also search other papers and find information you need.

This is a great site for teachers and students to use. As we are moving forward to more green solutions in schools, this site leads us in the right direction with paperless notesharing that is much more convenient than copying with a pen and paper. Teachers can use this site as a way of sharing notes with their students instead of sending a lot of emails. Students can also use this website to catch up on notes they missed if they were not in attendance for a class period. I would definitely use this website in my future classroom.

This website consists of screen-by-screen shots of how to use various Web 2.0 tools to educate students.

This journal describes how online social networks can be made into a classroom environment all in itself.

This article introduces the simplicity of using real materials to make lessons more interactive for students.

PDF file of 2012 Horizon Report. 

Here is the PDF file of some insights of the book: Grown up digital: How the net generation is changing your world.

"A fascinating inside look at the Net Generation, Grown Up Digital is inspired by a $4 million private research study. New York Times bestselling author Don Tapscott has surveyed more than 11,000 young people. Instead of a bunch of spoiled "screenagers" with short attention spans and zero social skills, he discovered a remarkably bright community, which has developed revolutionary new ways of thinking, interacting, working, and socializing." I am reading the book now and enjoy it very much.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released the NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Education Edition. This ninth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. Six emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, as well as key trends and challenges expected to continue over the same period, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning.

This is an interesting article published on the New York Times in 2010.  "Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning." 

One of my links to web 2.0 materials. Very interesting on how web 2.0 materials can be used in the classroom by students.

I love Prezi and how unique you can make every presentation

This is a short article on the Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for young learners to help them share and collaborate with others.

This is really great tools that didn't know was out there.

This site is good introduceing people to new tools.

This is a blog by Joanne, she talks about how technology is affecting education and what teachers and the community can do about it.

Her use of tags in help when trying to lacate information on certain subjects.

This is a great wiki to help teachers find all types of Web 2.0 tools to use int he classroom. Very helpful and interesting!

This was a great blog! Has a lot of great resources to use in the classroom but they can also be used at home as well!

I really like the set up for this site. I really like how they break down the tools.