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Students Work Should Be Published at The End of Every Unit of Study
The Innovative Educator:During a recent visit to a school I was disappointed because although the school is noted as being a model technology school I was hearing from students, teachers, and leaders that the students had “handed in” a lot of gre...
10 Places for Teachers to Collaborate and Communicate Online
Collaboration and communication is one of the most important aspects of teaching and education. If you are looking for tools and sites that can be used to communicate and collaborate with other teachers, parents, and students, you can find many quali...
Jane Hart\'s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
Jane Hart has made a tremendous effort to compile the suggestions from about 300 learning professionals. There is a slideshare presentation to read it better. This year's list, writes Jane, "is a great demonstration of how learning professionals are ...
Larger Schools Had Built an "Innovation Prevention Department."
The IndependentWith his tips on tagging Web site bookmarks, shortening URLs and installing browser applications, Tony Vincent may have sounded at times Wednesday like he was talking to a group of Web developers.But Vincent was talking to teachers, an...
A First Definition of Cyberbullying Applied to Teachers
I read lots of information on the fly, but the article written by Doug Johnson caught my eye for the appealing context with which he discusses the cyberbullying against teachers.Doug Johnson is the publisher of The Boo Skunk Blog. He posted a very c...
Edmodo Hits Badly an Australian Classroom
I don't pretend to criticize neither the teacher nor the application. What I try to, is to show experiences from which everyone else may benefit.Simon Job of Maths Class, lived first hand, what happens when we give a tool to students for whom it is m...
Twitter Is Broad-Casty, Facebook Is More Conversational
We already had mentioned Danah Boyd in other posts. She is a a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In this opportunity, Danah begins a conversation about practices and inte...
There Is Not Research on the Impact of Twitter on Education
If we still want to submit the social sciences to be probed by scientific science, then we will never accept Twitter as a good tool in the classroom. @kmanzo of Education Week posts an interesting article about Twitter in the classroom.Kathleen Kenne...
Learning From Participation at #lrnchat And #edchat Sessions
Somewhere in the internet I was reading how comments on blogs dropped considerably. The reason, microblogging and social tools like Twitter are up front, contributing to make people to share their thoughts, links and comments there, rather than on bl...
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...
A Mandatory Course on the \'Internet for Dummies\'
PC World:Techie W. W. has a long wish list of "driving instructions" he wishes every user would master. Here's a partial list: How to get to the command line How to get to the command line and type ipconfig /all How to start Task Manager and...
K12 Online 2009: Bridging the Divide
On September 26, 2009, the K12Online Conference in partnership with EdTechTalk will host a worldwide, synchronous “LAN party” (free web meet-up) from 2:00PM EDT (6:00PM GMT) to 5:00PM EDT (9:00PM GMT).Organizers encourage educators around the wor...
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...
Digital Literacy Programs Needed to Embrace Digital Tools
Marisa Connolly, from Common Sense Media submitted a press release about what education experts consider, based on the available digital media, it is a new approach to learn: Digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and ...
Lessons Through Holograms of Your Teacher
nzherald:Teachers could soon be conducting lessons in holograms around a family's dinner table if mobile technology continues to evolve, an award-winning Auckland teacher says.Nathan Kerr from Howick College recently represented New Zealand at one of...
Using 'Screenr' for Free to Make Interesting Math Presentations
Last week, while I was checking the streamline of our Twitter account, fellow Steven Diaz, who is a experienced math instructor and in pursue of his Ed.D. degree, gave to Screenr a try, uploading his very first work to show how to find the equation o...
All Invited to the LEARN NC's 2009
LEARN NC, the organization that makes Instructify possible, will hold its 2009 conference on October 1 in North Carolina.Event will run on Thursday, October 1st from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The face-to-face morning session is full, but you can log in virtua...
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...
Schools' Overworked IT Staff, Are Seen Unfriendly to Teachers
Jim Moulton has some insights about the internal relationship among school, ITs, teachers and students. In a reflexive post, he quotes three posts where the experiences and data about interaction is evident. The first one is from eSchools News, other...
20 Useful Websites and Tools for Elementary School Teachers
Engaging students in an elementary classroom can be difficult. But there are a lot of sites online that can help. Here are 20 useful sites that offer lesson plans, web apps, and other aids for elementary school teachers:Lesson PlansScholastic - Schol...
Open Standards, the Solution to Mobile Security
Jeff Crawford is the manager of networking and security for East Grand Rapids Public Schools in Michingan. Mr. Crawford was to struggle helping students to go online using their very own devices. After rejecting many vendors and convinced he was cap...
What Do You Believe to Be the Most Effective Methods for Delivering Professional Development to Teachers?
Despite what many still think about professional development for teachers, workshops and seminars ranked highest in a recent survey referenced by Alfred Thompson in his blog. Even though, the survey was exclusively used to measure the Computer Scienc...
Mobile Devices Are Machines for Learning ( Not Distractors)
"I want my children to be taught how to use their mobile devices to create and publish and connect, but I also want that done by adults who know how to do that for themselves." A Will Richardson comment featured in this post, thanks to the terrific ...
"Students Who Took All or Part of Their Class Online Performed Better," Says a Study
It's Sunday and Education & Tech usually gets updated on weekdays. But what we have to say today is something we had to postpone for two or three days, given that our schedule was tight, so barely we were able to read feeds and update Twitter.Someone...
20 Free Web Apps to Use in the Classroom
Guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about college online for OnlineCollege.orgTeachers who are looking to transform their classroom with new technology can find many free...
The Four Pillars of Technology Integration
nashworldWhat are the key elements required for a transformation of teaching and learning through the use of technology? There are obviously many reasonable ways to look at this. From what position do you view this issue? Are you a teacher, instru...
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...
Guidelines: How to Protect Your Children Online
Typically we keep reading online and offline on a daily basis. This week we started reading What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know by Debra W. Haffner. While she isn't afraid to tackle the big questions, including drinking, drugs and teen sex, ...
Facebook Apps for Aministrators and Educators
Whatever social media gurus say, Facebook continues to be the king in the social networks, closely followed only by Twitter. Sadly, majority of teachers in our schools barely use email, and less use Smartboards, says @motherthinker. Cellphones seem f...
Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools
edtech VISIONSLA [Science Leadership Academy, Pa.] is kid focused and community based. They want their kids to be passionate about the work they are doing. I love his quote, "School is real life – not preparation for real life." Technology is ub...
