Education Technology

Google Apps for Educators. Wow! History's most iconic photos in colour. VJ Day in Times Square Abraham Lincoln.

Evernote for Education. Android App: I use the desktop version at home and the office, the Android app on my HTC One smartphone, my tablets, web version on my Chromebook.

The desktop version sync's all of the data to your computer (good for backup) and you can also export your notes in a variety of formats for backup. You can create new notes via desktop, web, or mobile version. You can also use your camera phone or web cam to take a snapshot and Evernote can even recognize the text in the image. Battling over the Meaning of "Personalization" - EdTech Researcher. Our journalists are failing us.

Blogstitute Week 5: Reducing instruction, increasing engagement. July 23rd, 2012 In the final written post for our Summer Blogstitute, Peter Johnston (Choice Words, Opening Minds) shares the results of a study he conducted and asks us to ponder important questions about the amount of instruction students receive, the level of engagement with the text they read and with each other, and what this all means for teachers, students, and schools in the era of Common Core Standards. Be sure to check out the discussion of Peter’s book Opening Minds during an ongoing CyberPD event that will culminate in a Twitter chat on Thursday, July 26. Tune in next week for the final week of the Blogstitute when you will have the chance to preview three video clips from upcoming DVDs by Cris Tovani, Chris Confer and Marco Ramirez, and Debbie Diller.

Powerful instruction — powerful engagement What would happen if, rather than focusing on teaching reading strategies, we focused instead on getting students engaged? School district’s new approach to summer learning - The Answer Sheet. This was written by Linda S. Lane, superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools. By Linda S. Lane. Teach students higher order or critical thinking skills? Not if the Texas Republicans have their way.

The Republican Party of Texas states in its official 2012 political platform: We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

This is astounding since most everyone else in America seems to understand that our educational graduates and our employees need greater, not less, development of critical and higher-order thinking skills in order to be effective citizens, learners, and workers in our hyperconnected, hypercompetitive global information society. This political platform item is an absolutely stunning example of educational and economic cluelessness and is a surefire recipe for complete irrelevance in the 21st century. Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn. 10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take For Free. Data Informed-Good, Data Driven-Bad. Infographic: Write It Down. Flipping Blooms Taxonomy. Teacher Shelley Wright is on leave from her classroom, working with teachers in a half-dozen high schools to promote inquiry and connected learning.

I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. Hear me out. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. WHEREAS, our nation's future well-being relies on a high-quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship and lifelong learning, and strengthens the nation's social and economic well-being(1); and WHEREAS, our nation's school systems have been spending growing amounts of time, money and energy on high-stakes standardized testing, in which student performance on standardized tests is used to make major decisions affecting individual students, educators and schools(2); and WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness(4); and.

A new way to learn. Mission Center : Coaster Creator. Coaster Creator is an interactive game that explores the science behind roller coasters.

Use your knowledge of potential energy and kinetic energy to design your own coaster. Rapid energy transfer is the key to roller coaster thrills but be careful – too much kinetic energy and you’ll crash, too little and you’ll stall. The U.S. Census: Then & Now - Home Insurance. Experimenting in Education. Then vs. Now: How much did kids change in a generation (1982-2012) School Schedules. 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive.

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Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12. Stopkonynow2012. April 20th, 2012.

Time: 6am - 6pm. put posters around your town to let your fellow citizens know about Kony and what he has done to children, and how this needs to be the end of all this. Stop Kony Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make him famous!!!! Cover the night!!! 5 Myths about Teacher Accountability. Justin Vail: Never seen my students so... KONY 2012. Mummy. What’s Your Best Guess? Predicting Answers Leads to Deeper Learning.

Teaching Strategies Flickr: saxtourigr Predictions pique our interest.

Once we wager that our favorite sports team will win, we want to know the final score. Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app - SpiderScribe. World History TimeMap. Medieval Map. [Flowchart] Can I Use This Image On My Website? 17 Jul 2012 The handy flowchart style poster should help you decide whether or not you can a particular image on your website.

If yes, the poster also suggest way on how you can properly credit the original source of the photograph. couch mode print story How should you Credit Images on Website? The handy flowchart will help you decide whether or not you can use a particular image on your website. SoapBox - Transform your lecture in real-time. GoSoapBox - Hear what your students are thinking. Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May Still Lack Rigor.

Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Show. It is a well-known fact that children from affluent families tend to do better in school. Yet the income divide has received far less attention from policy makers and government officials than gaps in student accomplishment by race. Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period.

7th ????? For Each to Excel:Preparing Students to Learn Without Us. Justin Vail: Teachers should be creatin... On Digital Learning Day, 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology. Does merit pay really increase teacher retention? - The Answer Sheet. This was written by Eleanor Fulbeck, who has a doctorate in education policy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Here she explains that the evidence on whether merit pay increases teacher retention is less than clear — despite recent articles in the media suggesting otherwise. Obama wants schools to speed digital transition. The Obama administration is asking every U.S. school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks. Experimenting in Education. South Korea ditching textbooks for tablet PCs. Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook. The Journal's article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes: ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks. Apple has now partnered with the major textbook publishers with the newly unveiled iBooks Textbooks.

Smithsonian Magazine. Time in school: How does the U.S. compare? Senate, House websites crash from so many SOPA complaints. Help Stop SOPA/PIPA. Value_added. Free Technology for Teachers. Technology 4 the Classroom.