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TED: Ideas worth spreading. Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter. Kinect in education. Exactly What Role Should Technology Play In Education? - Edudemic. Using multimedia in our classrooms. Stanford Opens Seven New Online Courses for Enrollment (Free) MIT to Offer Certificates to Students Taking Free Courses on the Web. Connecting the K-12 Classroom to the 21st Century. If Earth’s Entire History Were Just 24 Hours Long. Barbara Bray - Creative Learning Strategist. A curator pulls together and oversees collections of materials.

Barbara Bray - Creative Learning Strategist

The Internet, Web 2.0 tools and social media has expanded the traditional role of publisher to almost anyone. The role of curator is changing too. Anyone can “curate” online material, pulling together their own collections. I started a new Scoop-it “Curate your Learning” and now I see why curating is important. When you create a Scoop-it, you put in the tags. Some of my tags are: curation, curating, curate, curation skills, curating learning, 21st century skills Because of Scoop-it and other curation tools, there are thousands of results as you curate. Curation skills can include: understanding keywords and tags scanning text reading and summarizing content building connections choosing appropriate resources sharing resources promoting and branding topic When I searched for others with the same topic, there were many so I followed several of those people. The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011.

GCFLearnFree.org - Reading. Free Technology for Teachers: 15 Things Teachers & Students Can Do With Edmodo. Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. An Education Revolution: Automate and Humanize! Lessons for digital natives. Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature. Web 2.0 and Language Teaching · leonardolinks. English 2.0 by Leonardo Pena on Prezi. English 2.0. English 2.0. English 2.0 Tools. Facebook and Grades. Sharing Trends in 2011. The Education Technologies That Educators Believe Can Have The Biggest Impact On Student Learning (Survey Results) The Benefit and Danger of Education Technology - Edudemic.

How To Get More Out Of Google. 5 Useful iPhone Apps For Student Bloggers. How Do We Prepare Students For Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? Education has truly come a long way. However, it still has a very long way to go. Thanks to social networks like Twitter, teachers are able to collaborate and share resources like never before. But what about students? International Society for Technology in Education - Blog > Top 5 Free Web Tools You Can Use in Your Classroom. How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning. Editor's Note:Posts about the flipped class on The Daily Riff beginning in January 2011 have generated over 240,000 views to-date - thanks contributors and readers . . .

How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning

See our other links related to the flipped class below this guest post. Since this post was written, Bergmann and Sams have released their book, Flip your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. How 5 Tech Giants Are Giving Back to Education. Obvious to You, Amazing to Others Animated by Plainly Simple Studios. For Schools. Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to accept this setting, or click "Cancel" to set your location filter to "Worldwide". The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results. To change your country filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page.

Benefits Customizable You can customize the content available in your school. School-appropriate School admins and teachers can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. Teacher-friendly YouTube.com/Teachers has hundreds of playlists of videos that align with common educational standards, organized by subject and grade. Google Presents YouTube for Schools, Makes Video World Safe for Teachers.

Online Education: Is It Right For You? [Infographic] Good to Know – Google. If you’re the tablet owner, touch Settings → Users → Add user or profile.

Good to Know – Google

Touch Restricted profile → New profile, then name the profile. Use the ON/OFF switches and settings to manage access to features, settings, and apps. Press the Power button to return to the lock screen, then touch the new profile icon. Once it's all set up, the Home screen is empty. Touch the All Apps icon to get started with the new profile. 10 High-Tech Ways To Teach Complex Lessons - Edudemic. High Tech Schools: 7 Innovative Ways Teachers Are Using Tech In The Classroom. 4 easy ways to incorporate technology into ELT (for you and your students)

The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. » 100+ examples of use of social media for learning C4LPT. 5 Best Practices for Educators on Facebook. » Top Tools 2011 C4LPT. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011. 20 Ways to Use Edmodo. Invalid quantity.

20 Ways to Use Edmodo

Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. 5 Resolutions to Get Your Year Started Right: A Holiday eCard from Atomic Learning. The 10 biggest ed-tech stories of 2011.