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How Should Social Media Be Taught in Schools? Before we ask how, I think we should address why social media should be taught in schools.

How Should Social Media Be Taught in Schools?

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below.

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have

The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : A List of Best Bookmarking Websites for Teachers. Technology & Education. iPads in education. A Printable Guide to Social Media [#Infographic] Cram a dozen educators into a conference room and ask them to name the most popular social media tools used by students, and it’s a safe bet everybody at the table could rattle off the top two: Facebook and Twitter.

A Printable Guide to Social Media [#Infographic]

But those are far from the only online applications making inroads in schools. As administrators warm to engaging students through social media, the list of potential resources at their disposal grows longer by the day. Facebook and Twitter are the obvious choices. But there are other options — Tumblr, the online blog tool, for instance; YouTube, which doesn’t always get the social credit it deserves; and Google+, the less popular but still-growing social network launched by the search engine giant as an alternative to Facebook, to name three. Lesson Plan: Teach Students to Put the 'You' in YouTube. Lesson Description Communication is an essential skill that all students must develop to function successfully in both the physical and digital worlds.

Lesson Plan: Teach Students to Put the 'You' in YouTube

That's what "Finding Youth Voice" is about: helping young people develop a perspective and articulate their ideas in meaningful ways using digital media. This project hinges on the passion and motivation of the students, who are tasked with telling personal stories in digital form, and that of the teachers who mentor them. The diversity of the technology tools that are available for student use also will determine how creative they can be in the documentary films, music videos, animated shorts, audio recordings or other multi­media projects they produce. What matters most is that their own perspective drives the work. Video tends to be a popular choice among ­students, so this lesson plan details how to proceed with that type of project. Subject Area. The 17 Best Twitter Hashtags for Education (2012 ) Talking about Twitter brings to mind the power of hashtags.

The 17 Best Twitter Hashtags for Education (2012 )

According to Twitter Help Center the symbol #, called hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already posted a guide on the use of hashtags in education. Check it out HERE Below is a list of the Edublog Award finalistsfor the best Twitter hashtag for education in 2012 This is a hashtag dedicated to the use of mobile technologies in education8-# ntchat ( new Teacher chat )This chat was created to provide weekly mentoring and focus on the needs of new, new to the profession and pre-service teachers.9- # pedagoofridayThis is another great hashtag for teachers and educators.

TechnologyInEducationFourKeyComponents. Mindcraft i barnehagen. Noen av de eld­ste barna i barne­ha­gen har forsøkt seg på spillet Minecraft.

Mindcraft i barnehagen

De byg­ger hus, de lager kjellere, byg­ger veg­ger, set­ter inn dører, diskuterer mate­ri­ale, skaf­fer seg mat. 21st century learning. The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class. This probably sounds familiar: You are with a group of friends arguing about some piece of trivia or historical fact.

The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class

Someone says, "Wait, let me look this up on Wikipedia," and proceeds to read the information out loud to the whole group, thus resolving the argument. Don’t dismiss this as a trivial occasion. It represents a learning moment, or more precisely, a microlearning moment, and it foreshadows a much larger transformation—to what I call socialstructed learning. Socialstructed learning is an aggregation of microlearning experiences drawn from a rich ecology of content and driven not by grades but by social and intrinsic rewards. The microlearning moment may last a few minutes, hours, or days (if you are absorbed in reading something, tinkering with something, or listening to something from which you just can’t walk away). Think of a simple augmented reality app on your iPhone such as Yelp Monocle.

What is digital literacy? Digital literacy is the topic that made the ETMOOC learning space so irresistible to me… I think as educators we spout off about wanting our students to be digitally literate, but not many of us (myself included) have a firm grasp about what that actually means, and quite a number of us are still attempting to become digitally literate ourselves.

What is digital literacy?

Whatever that means. It turns out, defining digital literacy isn’t such an easy task. The etmooc community was fortunate enough to hear Doug Belshaw speak on this topic in a recent webinar. I’ve followed Doug on Twitter for quite some time, and it turns out his dissertation investigates just what is digital literacy… and his TED talk can be viewed here. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Barn lär sig skriva och läsa snabbare med IT-undervisning. ICAICTE 2013. The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education. The purpose of the Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education is to contribute to the realization and the development of ICT policy.

The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education

It shall further cooperate with relevant public and private institutions. The centre will also participate in international cooperation. Our main goals are to improve the quality of education and to improve learning outcomes and learning for children, pupils and students thourgh use of ICT in education. Ict.qxd. SYNKRON nr 1 2013.