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Best Education Infographics – 2013. Leave a comment » Infographics, when used correctly, appropriately, are powerful tools for conveying a lot of pertinent information plus they support visual learning and thinking. I curate a Scoopit on Infographics for Education which can be found at Here are some of my favorites from 2013: About these ads Like this: Like Loading... iPad as the Teacher's Pet. Update: iPad as the Teacher's Pet was updated to Version 2.0 Click to see the new version!

Hey, teacher! Got an iPad? Then you've got a toolbox that you can fill to help you be an even better teacher! Spend some time with this infographic to discover how your iPad can be your handy assistant. It's filled with apps and services that you'll wonder how you ever lived without. It's all about verbs, that is, the things teachers can do with an iPad. So take a peek to see how iPad can help you capture learning artifacts, plan lessons, poll students, visualize concepts, share demonstrations, and much more. Show What You Know Infographic.

The Top 10 Social Networks: What If They Were High School Students? The 12 Most Popular Ways College Students Use Smartphones. The Importance Of The Evolution Of Education 7.58K Views 0 Likes Over the past century, the modes of both imparting and receiving education have undergone a paradigm shift. The evolution of education has become more important than ever. How Teachers Feel About The 10 Biggest EdTech Trends 16.40K Views 0 Likes Figuring out the biggest edtech trends is a great first step.

Why Should You Go To College? 2.45K Views 0 Likes Why should you go to college? The 8 Most Popular Things You're Sharing On Twitter. How Graduate Students Are Really Using Social Media. 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning. Do you ever stop to think about how you gathered information before the Internet? If you needed to find an answer about anything, what did you do to find it? I don’t really remember, but I think we called people on the phone, asked our parents or looked it up in an encyclopedia.

No wonder learning was kind of boring back then. One of the best parts of having access to all the technology we have today is the opportunity for so much learning. Unlike our computers, the human brain has an unlimited amount of storage space to hold everything we put in it (thank goodness). Last month, edudemic (a website dedicated to online and mobile learning) put together a comprehensive list of the 100 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning. These apps cover a wide variety of mobile learning topics including brain exercises, productivity, math, science and more. (Click Infographic To Enlarge) Via: [Online Universities] Header Image Credit: [Elite Daily]

Graduating with Technology | LearnStuff. Technology has become an integral part of our daily lives: we use it to learn, to shop, to pay bills, and to entertain ourselves. Not surprisingly, younger generations are heavily influenced by computers in a way that changes the way they retain information and the ways they develop opinions about culture. Today 70% of children between the ages of 2-5 can operate a computer mouse, but only 11% of them can tie their own shoes.

At the start of the 21st century only half of all school classrooms had Internet access, compared to 98% today. The proliferation and sheer breadth of accessibility that the Internet offers has in many ways redefined the process of “growing up” — this graphic explores this redefinition and provides insight into not just how we learn stuff, but also what we learn from a young age now that we have computers. 10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics. People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That’s been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics ? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend. They both have pros and cons but in general are great for any beginner or novice designer.

If Photoshop is a 4-letter word to you, then these sites are your friend. Click the name of each tool to learn more! Visual.ly One of the more popular ways to discover infographics, Visual.ly actually just launched a design overhaul of their website. Dipity Want to get a beautifully simply visualization of data over time? Easel.ly I absolutely love Easel.ly. Venngage Venngage (likely named for Venn diagrams) is a double threat.

Infogr.am Tableau Public Photo Stats What About Me? Gliffy Piktochart. InstaGrok-ing: Mining the Web for Meaning. What if you could conduct an online search and instead of a list of results returned based on Google’s ranking metrics, your browser displayed a semantic map of the concept you searched for and a list of relevant, educational resources? A tool like this would help you "to understand thoroughly and intuitively," or grok your subject. This is exactly what the website instaGrok does. Here’s how to use it and why it should be part of your education whether you are a student or a teacher at any level. What is Grok-ing? Grok is a slang term which means to understand something intuitively (The Free Dictionary). instaGrok accomplishes this by creating a customizable semantic map that visually illustrates your search term and its relationship to other concepts, facts, or information.

The graph space also contains a tab that lets you open a journal to type notes and quickly add elements from the sidebar with just the click of a button. The History of Programming Languages [Infographic] The Evolution of Classroom Technology. Classrooms have come a long way. There’s been an exponential growth in educational technology advancement over the past few years. From overhead projectors to iPads, it’s important to understand not only what’s coming next but also where it all started. We’ve certainly come a long way but some things seem hauntingly similar to many years ago. For example, Thomas Edison said in 1925 that “books will soon be obsolete in schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye.” Also in 1925, there were “schools of the air” that delivered lessons to millions of students simultaneously. Here’s a brief look at the evolution of classroom technology.

C. 1650 – The Horn-Book Wooden paddles with printed lessons were popular in the colonial era. C. 1850 – 1870 – Ferule This is a pointer and also a corporal punishment device. 1870 – Magic Lantern The precursor to a slide projector, the ‘magic lantern’ projected images printed on glass plates and showed them in darkened rooms to students. B. Infographics. I love infographics! As a visual learner myself, I really like the way a vast amount of information can be presented in these cool graphics. I’ve decided to post infographics on my blog that I really like. Two websites that I am using to enable my students to create their own infographics Piktochart - can create a professional looking infographic for free Ionz - can create a nice looking infographic after answering some simple questions – click on the Union Flag in top right hand corner to get started Thanks to @ICTEvangelist @TeamTait and @57Mason for their help on this – cheers guys!

This amazing infographic is from the brilliant Martin Said @saidthemac – it can be found on his blog here This amazing infographic is from the brilliant Martin Said @saidthemac Like this: Like Loading...