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EdTech
7 Social Media Tools To Tell Your Classroom Story
As the school days get long and teacher fatigue sets in, we educators forget that parents, loved ones and members of the community truly want to hear the stories that arise in classroom. We can’t forget the importance of facilitating learning opportunities is equally as important as sharing them.
Series
Smart Cities: The Hillsborough Leadership Story
High performing organizations grow their own leaders. A lack of political stability makes that unusual in urban American education--but Hillsborough, Florida is a great exception.
Personalized Learning
The SAMR Ladder Through the Lens of 21st Century Skills
SAMR is a truly useful tool for helping teachers identify their current comfort zone in order to build expertise in designing efficient and effective student learning experiences. To reach higher levels on the SAMR ladder, teachers can make some planning and instructional shifts.
EdTech
10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer
These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!
EdTech
OpenClass Leverages Open Content & Social Learning
A year ago, Pearson moved, “Beyond the LMS,” and launched OpenClass, a learning environment that is open, easy, and free. At ISTE, Pearson highlighted the OpenClass Exchange, “Where educators can trade in open digital experiences from courses to components,” as Matt Leavy explained.
EdTech
6 New Apps from Edshelf
Edshelf shares the newest additions to their app library to help followers find great new content and stay current on the best educational apps.
Leadership
High School Career Counseling Goes Blended
We’ve all heard of Blended Learning, in fact we recently blogged about How to create a Blended High School; but now it’s time for Blended Counseling.
Innov8
EdTech 10: Post-ISTE Grooviness
I’m thinking we can divide our readers into two categories this week: those who went to #ISTE13 and those who didn’t. Either way we’ve got something for you in this week’s EdTech 10 - whether you’re unpacking this weekend or still recovering from conference-envy. For starters, check ISTE’s Top Ten Conversations from the Getting Smart Editor and ISTE-veteran Alison Anderson.
EdTech
ISTE’s Top Ten Conversations
It seems safe to say that no one will be wrapping up the ISTE conference tomorrow without having met someone new, learned something new or had a conversation about trying something new during the next school year.
Personalized Learning
Museums & MOOCs
Earlier this month, I wrote about museums and alternate models of accessibility, from mobile brain science museums to portable pop-up hands-on STEM ‘museums’. These models, although mobile, still exist in a physical space – and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Think Tank is filled with brain science technology that just isn’t available to the average person, and the whole point of the Foundation for Early Learning’s Uni project is to bring hands-on science-related activities into public spaces.