Making the case for Education Technologies

Preparing Students for the Global Workplace with Collaborative Online International Learning

March 27, 2013

SUNY’s COIL initiative is a powerful program leveraging technology in the pursuit of learning on a global level. This year, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Professors Janet Thompson (The College of Westchester) and Patrice Torcivia (SUNY Empire State College), The College of Westchester participated in a “Collaborative Online International Learning” course. COIL (coil.suny.edu) is [...]

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Flipped Classroom Successes in Higher Education

January 6, 2013

Colleges and University Professors are Improving Learning Outcomes, and Lowering Costs, with Flipped Classroom Techniques. Last year I took my advocacy of the flipped classroom ‘on tour’ with presentations at colleges and conferences across the U.S. I also developed and delivered an online workshop about how to get started with ‘the flip’, which seemed to [...]

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The 10 Most Watched EmergingEdTech Videos of 2012

December 30, 2012

The EmergingEdTech YouTube Channel passed 100,000 views as subscribership doubled for this resource this year. In 2012, EmergingEdTech videos (there are now over 8o videos) were watched more than 56,000 times, and viewers spent over 35,000 minutes (that’s over 583 hours) watching them! Listing the most popular articles of the year is a common thing [...]

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Making BYOD Work in Schools – Three School Districts That Have Figured it Out

December 16, 2012

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) can Work Well When Approached Properly. Since I wrote the controversial post, “5 Reasons Why BYOD is a Bad Idea” over the summer, and received such strong push back the concerns I noted, I’ve been looking forward to learning about sharing ways in which schools have addressed some of these [...]

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Improving Instruction – Increasing Immersion With the iPad in the Foreign Language Classroom

December 2, 2012

15+ Apps that can Facilitate the Vital Element of Immersion in Foreign Language Teaching Since my school piloted its 1:1 iPad initiative in the spring of 2011, I have been thinking of ways to incorporate it into my lessons. I searched for and visited websites that touted lists of applicable apps, did searches in the [...]

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7 Key Findings for Successful Education Technology Integrations

November 28, 2012

Project Red Produced These Informative Findings and is Working to Transform Them ‘From Research to Results’. Continuing with the theme of measurable successes in education technology implementations that we’ve explored in a number of articles over the last few months, today we take a look at Project Red. Project RED conducted a national study of [...]

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Book Review – THE RULE OF 6: HOW TO TEACH WITH AN IPAD eBook by Jim Norwood

November 21, 2012

This eBook provides a useful approach to selecting iPad applications for teaching and learning. Jim Norwood’s 99 cent eBook is an easy read that lays out a logical approach to thinking about what types of iPad apps can play a useful role in instruction, and where they fit in the learning continuum. The “Rule of [...]

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Longwood University Combines Gaming and MOOC Technology to Offer Free Career Readiness Education to High School Students Everywhere

November 18, 2012

Badgestack and Longwood U combine forces to offer students a head start on what they need to know to succeed in today’s work force. Can it get much more innovative and community-focused than this? Longwood University in Virginia has worked with one-of-a-kind learning platform creator BadgeStack to offer a MOOC designed to help High School [...]

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ThinkWave – Bringing Key Elements of Administrative and Instructional Technologies Together to Facilitate Teaching

November 14, 2012

Combining elements of the SIS, the LMS/CMS, and a Portal, to create something uniquely powerful. Recently, ThinkWave co-founder John Poluektov reached out to me to introduce this application to me. On first glance, ThinkWave struck me as being purely an administrative technology, and not really an instructional one. John took the time to provide informative [...]

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8 Great Tips for Education and Instructional Technology Innovation

October 21, 2012

A collection of ideas to position administrators and educators to encourage and embrace innovative uses of instructional and education technologies in their schools. Last week, at the annual CIO Summit in Connecticut, innovation was one of the key topics for the day. There were a wealth of ideas offered and experiences discussed and I left [...]

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