This practical guide can help educators unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the U.K.’s leading technology experts, Sally McKeown and Angela McGlashon, this practical resource explains how to introduce new technology into the inclusive classroom, specifically to help develop pupils’ key skills, such as problem solving, developing concepts, and communicating to different audiences. In…
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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March 2, 2012This Developing Education presentation created for the Greater Edmonton Teachers Convention Association focuses on building a comfort level with Twitter for educators, both for within PLNs and for activities with students. It includes suggestions for Twitter use in our classrooms to create effective digital learning.
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March 2, 2012Volume 28 (2012) contains five outstanding papers as well as the following articles: Leading Change: Applying Change Management Approaches to Engage Students in Blended Learning Understanding Student Perceptions and Motivation towards Academic Blogs Effects of Presentation Mode on Mobile Language Learning Primary School Teachers’ Use of Digital Resources with Interactive Whiteboards Using a Wiki-based Collaborative Process Writing Pedagogy to Facilitate Collaborative Writing If you found this resource useful, please Recommend,…
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February 23, 2012Pinterest is a relatively new and very visual social network that serves as a virtual pin board. Like other social media options, Pinterest allows users to share, comment, resheare, and network with friends and others who share common interests. In this blog post, edSocialMedia explains how Pinterest works and how educators can use it with students and colleagues, as well as how schools and districts can use it as a…
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February 10, 2012Terry Heick is editor at Edudemic and director of curriculum at TeachThought. Here, blogging for Edutopia, he details GooglePlus’ strong potential application in formal learning environments. He includes examples for three stages of GooglePlus integration for the classroom, from basic use for communication to more advanced use as collaboration software for project-based learning. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
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February 10, 2012The new school of education is global and collaborative, and the Flat Classroom project is redefining excellence in education by promoting the value of online education, blended learning, e-learning, and social media, from primary grades to higher ed. In Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds by Flat Classroom pioneers Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis explain how educators can get their schools online and globally connected, one teacher at a time. If you found…
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February 7, 2012Is social media a distraction for students or an integrated part of college life? This Social Times article, complete with Online Universities infographic, shows how schools have joined their students on sites like Facebook and Twitter to make college campuses even more social. The graphic includes the types of social media used, as well as how and how well they are used. If you found this resource useful, please…
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February 6, 2012Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom by David Barber and Linda Cooper is for all educators interested in the application of new Web-based ICTs to primary teaching. It offers a justification for using Web 2.0 tools and explores tangible ways in which technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasting, media sharing, and social networking sites can enhance classroom practice, teaching, and learning. Considering key issues such as how children learn,…
