This episode of the Infinite Thinking Machine video series showcases ideas and innovations for mobile learning. Features include creative ways to combine Twitter and Instagram, texting tools to poll students, using EduCreations to flip the classroom, the power of Google Hangouts, and advice for teaching context rather than straight facts
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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September 21, 2012In part responding to an earlier ReadWriteWeb post, Professor Jonathan Obar explains why Wikipedia is a legitimate classroom tool. To back his claims, Obar details Wikipedia’s strengths, including: Offers similar benefits to traditional writing assignments Delivers digital-literacy training Provides multilayered feedback Gives users online exposure
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September 20, 2012Acknowledging that most professors have accepted the role of technology in the classroom, EdTech Magazine outlines five of the most important tech tools for the higher-ed space: Wikipedia Mobile devices Social media Digital textbooks Flipped classrooms
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September 10, 2012Social Networking for Schools by Steven Baule and Julie E. Lewis takes a comprehensive look at the topic of social media use in schools. Starting with the numerous justifications for integrating social media into education, it provides real-world examples of how to seamlessly work social media within your classroom or library; identifies communication, instruction, and professional development as the three core ways in which social media can be integrated within schools; examines…
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September 5, 2012Emerging EdTech thoughtfully shares eight of the latest and greatest infographics on education and technology. Topics include tablets, game-based learning, learning analytics, and social media in education.
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August 29, 2012As social media and Web 2.0 technologies continue to transform the learning trends and preferences of students, educators need to understand the applicability of these new tools in all types of learning environments. Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies by Michelle Pacansky-Brock provides both new and experienced online, hybrid, and face-to-face instructors with: Practical examples of how low-cost and free technologies can be used to support student learning Best practices for…
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August 27, 2012Leading off with a quick infographic on Smartphones for students, Online Degrees presents this list of some of the best tech tools for education, including some increasingly popular ones that can serve tech-savvy teachers for personal or classroom use. Better yet, Online Degrees has grouped the tools into the following categories for easy reference: Social Learning: Tools that use the power of social media to help stduents learn and teachers…
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August 23, 2012As part of Connected Educator Month (CEM), social media-savvy teachers and education professionals are using Twitter, blogs, and publications to get information out as quickly and easily as possible–and they are using lists in many ways. Browsing CEM’s Twitter hashtag, #CE12, the editors at eSchool News have highlighted some of the most popular lists posted to Twitter, as well as some additional lists that are likely to be helpful readers.
