EdTech
EdTech
3 Smart Twitter Chats for Connected Educators Month
Announcing the 2014 Getting Smart Connected Educators Month Twitter Chats: Getting Smart on Social Media, Smart Cities: Talent Development, and TwitPic Your Connection Tools. Mark your calendars and ready your handles for Wednesdays!
EdTech
5 Teaching Habits to Tame Time
Something kicks my posterior way too often. It’s a frenemy of mine, you see. Yep, that’s right. FREN-E-MY. Think of polar opposites. Some days are swing and duck, while others are smile and enjoy good luck. Oh, yeah. Are you picking up what I’m laying down? I’m speaking of that ceaseless, consistent, and never-changing thorn in my side…and friend by my side.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Smart Cities, Competitions and Investments
This week’s top stories show evidence of folks “getting smart” about cities, competitions and investments.
EdTech
Across the Canvas Cloud
Instructure announced the next big thing for their Canvas learning management system (LMS): Canvas Commons. This new platform focuses on the social needs of educators and the power of the web to connect people.
EdTech
2014 Educelerate Conference: Post-Secondary Startups in Success
Educelerate partners with Chicago Startup Weekend Education (SWEDU) for education innovation conference leading up to 2nd annual startup collaboration gathering.
Innov8
EdTech 10: #SchoolInfo Challenge
Calling all designers! This week's EdTech 10 features an open challenge to redesign and reimagine report cards, as well as news for Minecraft users, the announcement of 11 Blended Master Teachers, and more must know EdTech news.
EdTech
Video, Advocacy, and Mental Models
How video impacts mental models and understandings of how the world works, and why it’s important that we view video from an informed perspective.
Personalized Learning
Seeing What is Possible Makes Possibilities Exciting
An interview of former Napa Valley Unified School District Administrator, Dr. Laura Ryan, on why her school district chose Scholastic's READ 180/System 44 to help their struggling readers achieve.
EdTech
EdTech 10: Bring (or Wear) Your Own Device #BYOD
This week's top 10 list includes digital developments, policy updates, advancements in technology and more. Read more and get up to speed with EdTech news.
Personalized Learning
BLENDED: A Conversation With Michael Horn & Heather Staker
As "BLENDED: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools" hit shelves we sat down with authors Michael Horn and Heather Staker to discuss their new book and how disruptive innovation can improve schools.