My Diigo 11/19/2012
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100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education, By Degree Of Difficulty – Edudemic
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Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
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Teacher Resources | Library of Congress
“The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library’s vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.”
- – By Tanya Hudson
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Tony Vincent’s Learning in Hand – Podcasting
Students and teachers from all over the world are learning from audio and video programs on desktop computers, laptops, iPods, netbooks, and other devices.
- – By Marc Patton
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Teachers Roadmap to The Use of Twitter in Education
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- There are several ways we can use Twitter in education and here is briefly a set of some of the most important ones that you need to keep in your mind while using this social network.
- Hold after class discussions
- Create an online community of students
- Ask questions relevant to course materials
- Start backchannel talks
- Create a classroom hashtag
- Use it for class announcements
- Get feedback from students
- Share interesting online materials
- Pass on information about events
- Have a Twitter account for each class
- Reward participation
- Integrate Twitter into Syllabus
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How Canadians Are Integrating Technology Into The Classroom – Edudemic
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Ever wonder how a particular country uses technology in the classroom? There’s a new infographic that spells out exactly what classrooms in Canada are up to.
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How Education Technology Is Like Betamax – Edudemic
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Now that we are all excited about integrating iPads into the classroom, what’s next? What are we all going to do in 18.. 24.. 36.. months when the next great device comes along? Are we all going to just start over? How do we, as educators, avoid being the next Betamax: that flash in the pan that couldn’t scale up and adjust to a rapidly changing market?
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40 Creative Ways to Use Cell Phones in the Classroom
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So many ruminations on what smartphone technologies offer the wired classroom begin with some permutation of how, at first, cell phones are often the bane of teachers’ existence because they cause disruptions. This isn’t one of those ruminations. Let’s just go straight to the suggestions, shall we?
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Why Teachers Want Technology (And Why They Can’t Have It) – Edudemic
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- Just 1 in 5 teachers say they have the right amount of technology in their classroom
- The biggest hurdle to getting improved technology? Budget.
- Teachers want new technology because it provides new learning experiences and a motivation to learn.
- Web 2.0 tools are the most-used pieces of technology in the classroom.
What do teachers want? A new study from PBS Learning Media details (in a highly visual manner) exactly what teachers want these days. From budgets to technology to web tools to increased engagement, it’s all here. The following infographic is definitely worth printing out and posting around your school. If you’re in the middle of determining what teachers, students, and parents want in your district, use this as a jumping off point to start the discussion.
Key Findings
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Teaching with tablets: Will our children be using electronic textbooks to learn? | ITProPortal.com
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Ever the technology pacesetter, South Korea announced earlier this year that it’s committed to replacing paper textbooks with digital versions in classrooms within just three years – and that means tablet computers.
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There is clearly caution about the use of tablets (72 per cent of schools want more evidence before adopting), but there is unstoppable enthusiasm; 82 per cent of teachers said their pupils had an interest in using tablets. Whether or not children are familiar with tablets and their touchscreen ilk isn’t doubted. Around 2.8 million children already have a smartphone, including almost a million – that’s about a quarter – of eight to 12 year olds.
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Is Texting Mangling the English Language? [INFOGRAPHIC]
“Do your OMGs and LOLs have you sometimes srsly forgetting how to write in proper English?”
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Do your OMGs and LOLs have you sometimes srsly forgetting how to write in proper English? If so, you may not be alone.
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Twitter Boosts College Grades and Class Engagement [STUDY]
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Christina Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, discovered that students using the microblogging service as part of their education are more engaged and have higher grades. In fact, she considers it “a new literary practice,” as she explains in her study “Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New form of Literary Practice.”
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8 Great Tips for Education and Instructional Technology Innovation | Emerging Education Technology
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A collection of ideas to position administrators and educators to encourage and embrace innovative uses of instructional and education technologies in their schools.
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Elementary Math Websites To Practice Mixed Operations/Story Problems – A Listly List
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A list of websites to help students practice using their problem solving skills to practice mixed operation equations. The list was compiled by Cindy Lawrence, 3rd grade teacher, at Barton Creek Elementary School. The list accompanies unit 8 of the 3rd Grade Everyday Math Curriculum.
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Excellent article to evaluate PBL.
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http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/DecodingLearningReport.pdf
“this report seeks to analyse the use of technologies for learning around the world and draw out lessons for innovation in the uK education systems.”
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What Are Numerical and Algebraic Expressions? — Virtual Nerd can help
Numerical Expressions vs Algebraic expressions tutorial
- – By Erin Sprang
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Your Unofficial Job-Application Checklist – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education
“With more than 4,000 colleges and universities out there, no generalization about how academic employers view s”
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Thinking about BYOD » Derek’s Blog
BYOD Matrix
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