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School leaders in Indiana are increasingly asking the questions necessary to propel our K-12 schools into the 2.0 world. One of the challenges these leaders face is the tension between wanting to leverage the possiblities of the web while fulfulling their responsibility to protect students and create environments conducive to learning. No longer is a school's acceptable use policy a simple matter of defining appropriate use of school-owned devices. Rather, these policy documents must now contemplate the school's position vis-a-vis student owned technology, the use of cell phones, and the parameters for web 2.0 tools. The Consortium on School Networking (CoSN) recently released a helpful site for school leaders, Acceptable Use Policies in Web 2.0 & Mobile Era .
School 1.0 in a 2.0 World
The Must-Have Guide To Helping Technophobic Educators | Edudemic
Topics: edtech , education , guide , How To , IT , technology The following is the third in a set of 7 ‘ The Future of Education ‘ articles. It is written by Dr. Abir Qasem , an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Director of Academic Computing at Bridgewater College and Tanya Gupta who has worked on technology and economic development. The blogosphere and the mainstream media is filled with success stories of technology’s successful adoption in education.
New consolidated report on Network Information Security in Education — ENISA
Long life learning, formal, non-formal and informal education are on the agenda of policymakers. Children, youth and their peers, parents and educators are all part of the discussion and the recommendation is that they should cooperate and get involved as much as possible. The material available here is to enable easy transfer of knowledge between stakeholders.
Try IT this year – Ten Techie things to try this year | ICTmagic
1) Build your person learning network Imagine a place where you can ask for a child-friendly video about the Battle of Hastings at 2am on a Thursday and five people point you in the direction of a perfect resource. This is your personal learning network (PLN).12 Tech Tools That Will Transform The Way You Teach! | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher
In a Simple K12 blog post titled “17 Signs Your Classroom is Behind the Times” they provide a list of things that characterize a classroom that has fallen behind. Number 16 lists a variety of technology tools that every educator should know about. As I read the list, I realized that although many teachers are interested in and excited about technology integration, they are too busy to explore all the new technology tools available online. This blog post is dedicated to all of the overworked teachers who just don’t have the time to seek out this information. I have provided brief explanations, links to and pictures of the tools mentioned by Simple K12 (and a couple of my favorites). I hope this makes it more manageable for teachers to pick and choose which tools they want to use.
Earlier this week I wrote about five major technologies that should have had real impacts in education this year, but which never amounted to much. I called more than one of them out a year ago , when all signs pointed to their potential for disruption and transformation in 2011. I can’t resist giving it another shot this year, though. Here are my top 5 predictions for the state of the art in Ed Tech in the coming year. Analytics and BI will go mainstream In a former life, I was a SAS programmer doing data management and statistical analysis for clinical trials.
Top 5 Ed Tech predictions for 2012 | ZDNet
iPad Art
Everyone's been desperate to hear about the apps we're using. I present the current list for our primary department, with iTunes links. All prices are for the UK App Store.
Fraser Speirs - Blog - iPad Apps for Primary
One of the biggest challenges of incorporating iPads, iPods, and other touch-screen devices into the classroom is figuring out which apps, among the thousands of available possibilities, are best suited for students. This list of applications related to reading and English/language arts offers a jumping-off point for educators who are just beginning to explore apps in this subject area. Designed by the Stanford school of education and Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum, this app helps students practice storytelling by prompting them to pick a setting, characters, and music to tell their own stories. It guides students through the story arc, asking them to fill in a setup, conflict, challenge, climax, and resolution. Once they've chosen their characters and setting, the students animate the scenes and record the story with their own voices. Adding the background music can help them decide the overall tone or feeling they want to convey.
Education Week: Reading Apps
At the start of this year, 7000 school students in Miami took a maths course delivered entirely by computer. Instead of a teacher, the only adult in the room was a ''facilitator'' who dealt with technical problems and ensured students remained on task. Labor's Digital Education Revolution (DER) ensures every year 9 student in Australia gets a laptop so could Australian classrooms one day resemble those in Miami?
For today's learners, it just clicks
