50 Education Startups for 2012 - Ed Tech. Some of today's educational methods seem like relics of the one-room schoolhouse.
Meanwhile, the academic performance of US students continues to slip, teachers burn out from boredom and administrative burdens, and those footing the bill grow increasingly frustrated with the cost. At the corporate level, a rapidly-changing business and technological environment has made re-training an ongoing essential rather than an occasional luxury, yet few companies are equipped to meet this educational challenge. With new technologies and communication methods reaching the mainstream, perhaps there has never been a better time to update educational methods.
The potential for using things such as mobile apps, multimedia presentations and crowd-sourcing to improve the process of education is starting to be tapped in a serious way. TED Conversations in the classroom. Can students learn better by sharing what they know?
TED Fellow Nina Tandon believes in the power of sharing ideas and using TED Talks in her classroom. In addition to that, she is now using the TED Conversation platform in the Bioelectricity course that she’s currently teaching at Cooper Union in New York City. Introducing Google Docs To Your Class: It’s about communication, not the tool! 2 of 3. This is the second in a series of 3 posts I wrote for the Official Google Docs Blog – in this one I share some common challenges teachers face when students begin working together on collaborative projects.
Communication is important, not the tool The success of our own class projects was not influenced by how well the children could use Google Docs. After all, it is not really about the tool — it’s about the group’s ability to work together as a team. My class found this difficult throughout the year. I did not expect that just because we were using technology that the outcome would be any different. With this in mind we raised the profile of the sense of communication within the groups and discussed with the children their teething problems and how we can best resolve them.
How student personalities and familiarity with technology affect group work. Introducing Google Docs To Your Class: Interesting ways to use Docs in the Classroom 3 of 3. The mornings are becoming darker and the leaves are changing colour here in England, the Autumn school term is in full swing. We have been using Google Docs (as part of Apps Education Edition ) with a new year group for 8 weeks and we are putting into action some of the many things we learned from last year’s implementation.
Introducing Google Docs To Your Class: Tips for introducing online collaboration to students 1 of 3. In 2008 I was invited to write a series of blog posts for the Official Google Docs blog.
I have decided to repost them here to highlight some of the challenges I faced at the time and in an effort to help you, not only with the use of Google Docs but also other online collaborative tools. Modelling expected behaviour and good practice first As our first Google Docs project began to gather pace last school year, I realised that the children were finding it difficult to work together. With hindsight it is easier to recognise that the children were not only being introduced to a new piece of technology (the Docs tool) but also their traditional way of working was to be challenged by the new concept of working collaboratively in an online document.
It was clear that the children were unsure about the way they should be working together. Introducing group collaboration: entire class, working in pairs, and groups of four. The Ultimate Guide To Apple’s New Education Initiative. Apple has just unveiled their latest attempt to rethink an entire market. It’s not a new tablet, phone, or even a device at all. Today at the Guggenheim, Apple announced how it will essentially get more school districts to buy iPads. But it’s not just about the money, there’s some amazing software that’s rethinking the tried-and-true textbook publishing model. Below are excerpts from the world’s best news sources who are live-blogging and in attendance at the event. From them you’ll be able to understand exactly what the new software is, what it does, and how it will affect you and your classroom. What Apple Announced 1: Textbooks for iPad, which became available by way of a new textbook category in iBooks 2, provide students with a modern, interactive replacement for conventional printed textbooks. 2: Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks.
iTunes U Is Changing iTunes 10.5.3 Just Released. Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers. Winning ways to use Google Apps in your Classroom or Library CA Google Summit July 2013 Winning ways to use Google Apps in your Library Got Books?
