This website is for educators who want to learn about using iPads in education. Here you will findinformation about the Victorian school iPads for Learning trial including specially selected apps,classroom ideas and technical tips.
site about the future of education. In the spirit of DIY U, I made it myself-with help from friends, colleagues, and Twitterfolks.You might also be interested in my Fast Company column Life In Beta, my Tribune Media column The Savings Game, my Book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education,my Twitter feed@Anya1anya, or in having me come speak at a campus
Because living and working are so different now from even a decade or two ago and because things will continue to change, today's students need new skills to survive and thrive in the future. Education should combine practical, intellectual, and social skills as never before. What does this mean for classrooms? Read the articles below to find out how technology can impact teaching and learning.
On the Internet, everything links to everything, and all of it is available all the time.
Unfortunately, current practices of our educational institutions—and workplaces—are a mismatch between the age we live in and the institutions we have built over the last 100-plus years.
"Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills. "Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
"collaboration by difference." Collaboration by difference is an antidote to attention blindness
Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged by teachers.
Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers.
The GRumbler allows you to define up to five variables in addition to gender that can be used to map conflicts in sorting students into groups.
t then calculates the best ways to sort the students according to number desired in each group; whether you want gender to be balanced, clustered, or random; and the additional variables you’ve defined
Today in my literary theory and writing course I found yet another great use for Google Docs, one of our favorite subjects here at ProfHacker. Specifically, I used Google Docs Forms to structure an in-class peer review workshop.