EdTech 10: Future’s So Bright
Every week we love gathering up the latest in EdTech and highlighting what’s the most exciting. It reminds us how quickly this space evolves and the incredible development that happens in just 7 days. The future looks bright for education- especially for our students.
Making Student Blogs More than Digital Diaries
How you choose to utilize student blogs is up to you. Nevertheless, choosing to integrate blogging into your classroom to support existing curriculum is fundamental to a new millenium approach to education.
8 Principles of Productive Gamification
Well constructed and applied, learning games and game-based strategies hold the potential to boost motivation, extent persistence, build automaticity, and deepen learning.
5 Resources to Help You Flip Your College Classroom
By: Jennifer Rowland. So you want to flip your classroom. That means creating a ton of lecture videos and hosting them on your college’s learning management system or online, right?
Discuss Smart #EdTech Procurement via Google HangOut This Friday
Learn how schools are saving money by using pooled purchasing and other creative tactics. Ask direct questions about current education policy- what it means and what impact will it have on your own school or district. Find out how to simplify this process from edleaders who have been there already and want to share the lessons learned.
Edmodo App Review: NoRedInk
NoRedInk is a website but is also available as an Edmodo app. I hadn’t used Edmodo apps so I was eager to try it out when my 7th grade English Language Arts teacher asked me about it.
Great Books Go Digital: In Search of Julius Caesar
At the risk of sound a bit like the parody of our parents who walked ten miles to school barefoot in the snow, I’d say things are a bit different now.
What Can We Learn From the Navy’s Train to Qualification System?
In summary, there appear to be 10 things that K-12 could learn from the Navy about professional preparation and ongoing development.
Personalized Learning Demands Lean, Blended, Interative Approach
Blended classrooms can provide a boost to a group of students, but blended schools create a new world of opportunity for how a team of teachers interact with hundreds of students and how students experience learning.
Smart Procurement: EdTech & Learning Games
Moving beyond flipped and blended classrooms to networks of schools that work better for students and teachers requires a new level of collaboration.