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This position piece was a response to a Learning & Leading prompt, submitted April 9, 2012: While many teachers have been introduced to “the flip” via the video lessons of pioneers, video is just one example of an evolving flipped teaching sensibility. Flipping is the act of identifying rote or procedural elements of a lesson, shifting this repetitive content to a medium not bound by teacher availability, and empowering students to take an active role in their education.
"Good people know that high stakes testing has limited value and they keep operating anyway. They don't let testing get in the way of doing the good work they want to do to get kids prepared for life." Todd Whitaker
Using Social Networking to Build 21st Century Skills - Finding Common Ground - Education Week
Jeff Kirchick is Director of Universities at SCVNGR, the popular mobile game about going places, doing challenges and earning points. He presents regularly about the future of mobile and location-based services in education. You can follow Jeff on Twitter @JeffreyKirchick or e-mail him at jeff@scvngr.com.
5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech
Free Technology for Teachers: Just Beam It - Drag and Drop File Transfers
Just Beam It is a new service for quickly and easily sharing files with your colleagues. To use the service just visit Justbeamit.com and drag a file from your desktop to the Just Beam It transfer box. After dragging your file, Just Beam It generates an unique url for your file. Give that link to the person or people you want to be able to download your files.
James Rabideau plays a video game as he waits in line at the Sony booth to get a chance to play the new Playstation Vita at the E3 video game convention in L.A. in June 2011. By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY Here's another reason to include The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on those holiday shopping lists: children who play video games are more creative. That finding, thought to be the first demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity, comes from a new study of nearly 500 12-year-olds in Michigan, conducted by researchers at Michigan State University's Children and Technology Project. Already published online , the study is expected to be included in the March 2012 issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior . The children were given creative thinking tests – shown a drawing and asked to expand on it or comment on what it means – and then asked about their use of cellphones, computers, the Internet and video games.
Research: Video games help with creativity in boys and girls
txtDrop.com - Completely Free Text Messaging
Free Text Messaging With txtDrop Our goal has always been to make web based text messaging free and as simple as possible and we're sticking by that in 2008. Which is why we let you do everything in one easy step, on one simple webpage. TxtDrop enables users in the United States and Canada to send text messages with instant delivery.
I'm dumping another technology phrase that I think its time has passed by. A few years ago I stopped using the phrase 21st Century blah, blah, blah . You name it we were calling everything 21st Century. I haven't missed that phrase in my vocabulary as I believe it is just the way things should be now that we're 11 years into it. I was thinking about this phrase again the other day as I was talking to seniors...who were born around 1994 and who started their official schooling sometime around 2001.
Technology: More than a tool, a new skill | The Thinking Stick
A few simple tools I want edu-startups to build
Outside of taking courses in XML, programming logic, and Python, I am not a programmer. I understand the importance of being able to program. I can get by with HTML and CSS. There are few things more irritating, however, than having ideas that one is not capable of activating in a meaningful way.
South Korea's classrooms will be switched to digital textbooks over the next four years South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.
BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter
Grand Valley started this week. And, as usual, I began my Introduction to Learning and Assessment course with a workshop called "A Piece of Me" ( handout ). This involves an activity that was introduced to me over 14 years ago during an Integrated Thematic Instruction class.
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6 Best Practices for Universities Embracing Social Media - Yahoo! News
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I've always wanted a document camera in my classroom, so yesterday I made my own - using my iPad. Here's a quick rundown of how to do this: Purchase a VGA Adapter Cable . You can pick one up online for around 20 bucks. Create your iPad stand. For mine, I borrowed a ring stand from the science department and clamped it to a clipboard.The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data | ZDNet
“Much or most of these topics are in back burner mode in many companies just now seeing the glimmerings of recovery from the downturn. Much has been written lately about the speed at which technology is reshaping the business landscape today. Except that’s not quite phrasing it correctly.Great news for Android users: new versions of Pho.to Lab & Pho.to Lab PRO are available on Google Play! No AirPush ads, some bug fixes and a number of new effects.
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