Future of Education Technology

Flipped Classroom Panel Discussion Provides Rich Insights into a Powerful Teaching Technique

June 16, 2013

Thanks to McGraw-Hill for coordinating this great streamed panel discussion about ‘the flip’ On this past Thursday, I had the pleasure and privilege of moderating an online panel discussion with three college professors who have flipped their classrooms. This discussion was arranged by McGraw-Hill and featured Dr. Danae Quirk-Dorr of Minnesota State University, Jeff Anderson [...]

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The Evolving use of Badges in Education

June 12, 2013

Rewards as a Way to Motivate Students to Learn Today’s schools commonly use grade-based evaluations where students get rewarded for the knowledge they gain. Students are evaluated and rewarded with grades and sometimes other types of rewards, for tasks such as projects, behavior, skills, and taking tests. Evaluations are one way to reward learning. The [...]

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Flipped Classroom Insights and Tips from a College Biology Teacher

May 29, 2013

Experienced instructor offers her perspective on how the flip is helping her students and how to make it work. Classroom flipping is an education technology strategy which involves students watching pre-recorded lectures and coming to class to complete work. The process encourages collaborative learning, more engagement in the classroom, and a class format which fosters [...]

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Exciting Developments in Uses of 3D Printing in Education

May 26, 2013

This fascinating emerging technology is finding its way into colleges, universities, and high schools and bringing powerful possibilities to teaching various disciplines. The emergence of 3D printing has drawn the attention of different business sectors across the world. This high-tech printing method uses many additive layers compounded with each other to create the desired object. [...]

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Salman Khan’s Inspiring One World Schoolhouse

May 19, 2013

The first in a series of articles reviewing this look at how the Khan Academy came to be, and why these ideas can truly change education. I am currently reading Sal Khan’s book The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined and it didn’t take very long to come to feel strongly that this book should be [...]

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Moby Max is a Proven Adaptive Learning Toolset with Differentiated Curriculum for K-8 Students

May 5, 2013

Moby Max adds individualized, adaptive learning for writing, reading, and language skills to its powerful math skills platform. As you might imagine, EmergingEdTech receives an endless stream of requests to write about education and instruction oriented software products and services. One of the first things I look for when considering these submissions is what teachers [...]

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More examples of synchronous virtual classroom participation

April 24, 2013

Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts are being used to bring online guests and students into the brick-and-mortar classroom. Following up Sunday’s post about Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation, today we share three more examples and insights into schools and tools for bringing virtual participants into the classroom … The Internet is making the [...]

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Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation

April 21, 2013

Remote guest lecturers, students who are unable to travel, panel participants, and even entire remote classrooms can join in the physical classroom with ease thanks to an evolving array of technologies. Post written collaboratively with Curtis Taylor. The ways in which schools are leveraging synchronous virtual classroom technologies are expanding every day. Popular tools like [...]

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Social Media Websites can be a Powerful Aid in Writing Assignment (with 5 Examples)

April 17, 2013

These sites are much more than a place to share comments and content with friends – they can be a useful aid in research and school work. Many of today’s students look to Internet trends when doing research for writing assignments, leveraging user-generated content that’s being shared on the popular social networks, while professionally published [...]

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6 Higher Education Institutions Leading the way with Mobile Learning Apps

April 14, 2013

These Universities are leveraging the smart phones that are in most student’s hands to provide mobile access to learning resources and administrative tools. As the high-tech world evolves from dial-up access to lightning-fast smartphones, students benefit from a more mobile classroom. But as anyone with a smartphone or tablet already knows, no two apps are [...]

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