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Can We Really Enforce Differenciated Instruction in Our Schools?
I was attending the all popular now #edchat and organized every Tuesday at 7 PM EST. on Twitter. It has been a great opportunity to know more participants, but also to learn a bit more about Differentiated Instruction (DI). If you missed the online ...
Will Kindle Solve All Our Reading Problems?
As days pass by, more and more people is getting used to small appliances and the same sort of technological devices. We are hunting for the right cell phone, the tiniest digital camera, the faster netbook and of course, the device that solve all our...
What Role Does/Should Social Media Play in Education?
That was the topic of tonight's fantastic conversation (#edchat) about one of the multiple parameters the education encloses. The consensus was that social media should be modeled and utilized properly in the classroom. But to overcome success, teach...
A Student's Goals Many Teachers Should Read
Every often we teachers are dedicated to read, investigate and plan ahead our class management and the substance of our subjects, but the contact with our students is reduced to greet them at the beginning of the school period, randomly check their h...
How Does Technology Help in Learning Languages?
It’s something almost all of us pick up from our parents and those around us, this thing we call our mother tongue. We learn it instinctively and through repeated usage, and we hardly give it a second thought. However, development of language skill...
Undertsanding a PLN to Build a Strong Learning Community
Almost never we talk about what Twitter means in our daily life. This is due to the short periods of time we have to spend online and where we have the great opportunity to talk and share about common interests with other professionals in education.T...
The Challenges 21st Students Are to Face
David Warlick comes to the conclusion, after two polls and his own experience, that teachers can do good without technology, term defined by Alan Kay as anything that was invented after you were born.If teachers in this century are not required to us...
Digital Age: The Future of Learning
We woke early today and start browsing the most recent tweets. We came across to an interesting report, licensed under Creative Commons: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assist...
CEP: NCLB Focus on Proficiency Is Shortchanging Students
CEP (Center on Education Policy) has released an analysis to answer: Is the Emphasis on “Proficiency”Shortchanging Higher- and Lower-Achieving Students? (pdf doc). The study shows good news for the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) policy. Sean Cavanag...
A Comment on "Cellphones in the Classroom"
Little by little teachers and citizen are taking into account how important it is for our kids (students)to use what they know, some times, better than us: The cellphones.Jesse Moyer weights in and says: I think we can all agree that this type techno...
Reexamining Our Roles as Teachers
Dr Delaney Kirk of Ask-Dr-Kirk blog, links to a very well framed post from Adobe Education Leaders.. Johanna Riddle is the author and she explains how digital media has transformed the role of educators, that is taking us to a new breed of learners...
Research Book on Neuroscience And Learning
This post is originated after a tweet that was posted by @edtechcowgirl. We were checking our subscriptions and we found a book recommended by Clark Quinn that would fit Donna Feledichuk's necessities.The book title is Why Don’t Students Like Schoo...
Edublogs: Steal But Do Not Get Caught! Give Credit.
Do you think school districts "pirating" content from your education blog and sharing it with their staff - with or without attribution - is right or wrong?This is the question which the author of this post, closed it. And since we are reproducing so...
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Suffer in School
Children exposed to domestic violence not only have more disciplinary problems at school, they perform considerably worse in math and reading than other students.They also have a negative effect on their classroom peers, resulting in decreased test s...
Identity Management And Open Educational Resources
JISC Access Management TeamOn the way to work this morning, whilst I was supposed to be writing a paper for JISC SMT (oops), I instead found myself thinking about a question that I posed to David Kernohan on Twitter a while ago – how does the Open ...
Passage Middle School Challenges Others On Using Cellphones in Class
Principal Kipp Rogers is the man behind the move. Passage Middle School is in Newport, WA and contrary to what other principals and faculty members nationwide are doing, here at Passage students not only can they carry their cellphones but they are a...
Education on Being Tamed, Domesticated And Subdued
Ed Tech JourneysAt birth we are blessed with a natural curiosity. There is a great wildness in it. A shaft of sunlight illuminates a world of dust and delicate objects floating in air, as if by magic. A child who catches a glimpse of this will stop w...
Call for Papers on Applied Research in Workplace E-Learning
The new Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-Learning is based in Australia, reports Will Thalheimer, the online journal will publish both refereed and non-refereed articles "from both researchers and practitioners relating to the design, imple...
Web And Google Are Making Us Smarter So We Re-discover New Ways to Learn
It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It...
Write or Not to Write. It's Better to Read
It is weekend and we fairly catch up with our subscriptions. I had the opportunity to read Miranda Marquit interviewed and I really like this excerpt, I think all bloggers should be paying attention: "I find that more people want to visit my blog if ...
Social Web in Education and Good Use of Technology
Once cellphones are in the hands of the rebel, pupils can start using technology for the right things, and with direction they would stop using it for the wrong thingsThere is an ongoing investigation performed by an aspiring EdD that is part of the ...
Making Uses of Technology in the Classroom a Reality
Where is the best place to begin convincing teachers who don't use technology about the power of these tools?Jim Multon at Edutopia, says that veteran teachers have great assets they can bring to the effective use of technology in the classroom, his ...
Brits Spell Better Than Americans, Says a Survey
If you don't learn to spell correctly at early ages, then you are way, way behind. Time to re-learn and recapitulate, thinking you know all and everything about your language.Are you embarrassed by your spelling? If so, you're not alone. More than ha...
John Updike: Writing Is Diminished And Reading Is Declining
John Updike passed away yesterday. There was no greater advocate of books than this author who created so many of them and read so many of them. For someone who thought of writing and literature as so fundamental, he was known for writing about the m...
A Definition of Collaborative Learning in Attention of New Teachers
Last night we had the privilege of listening for the very first time to George Siemens and his concepts on Connectivism & Connective Knowledge. Hat tip to @courosa for spreading word of the webcast (The Elluminate Recording for this Session).Today, t...
Research: Meta-analysis of Early Literacy by the National Early Literacy Panel
Photo by amy.k.This week was the Arne Duncan's confirmation hearing in the Senate and none of the 20 questions prepared to this event were brought in. In place, Duncan faced some "not-so-tough grilling" from senators, according to Christina Satkows...
Expert Predictions for the e-Learning Community
Lisa Neal Gualtieri eLearn Magazine's editor summarized what lies ahead for the e-learning community, provided by experts in this field like Stephen Downes, Jane Hart, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche and many othersFrom Education and Technology in Perspect...
