Do Social Media Benefit College Students by Engaging Them in the Course Material?

May 1, 2013

Yes! This professor’s Twitter trial increased student engagement and improved grades. If you were to walk the halls of The College of Westchester, what would you see? If you were to walk into the student café, what would you see? If you took a ride in the elevator, what would you see? I’ll tell you. [...]

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Book Review – Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

April 28, 2013

Teacher Michelle Pacansky-Brock has written an excellent guide to bringing the teaching paradigm into the current century, in a way that embraces the perspective of students (of all ages) and has been proved effective time and time again. I could hardly envision a better introduction to using emerging technologies in the classroom in a single [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 04-22-13

April 26, 2013

This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Resources for Curating and Publishing Digital Content: http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/2013/04/resources-for-curating-and-publishing-digital-content/ Put technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge together and you get TPACK: http://gettingsmart.com/2013/04/teaching-with-technology-in-the-classroom/ 5 (Free) Sites Students [...]

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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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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 04-15-13

April 19, 2013

This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Series of in-depth interviews w/experienced teachers using video in a variety of ways: http://www.knowmia.com/vrp Competency-Based Education Advances With U.S. Approval of Program: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/u-s-education-department-gives-a-boost-to-competency-based-education/43439 Technology [...]

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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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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 04-08-12

April 12, 2013

This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).   Education Technology Flips for “Flipped” Classrooms: http://techonomy.com/2013/04/education-technology-flips-for-flipped-classrooms/ Education demands tech upgrade (congressional Reps Miller & Wise): http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/education-demands-technology-upgrade-89894.html?hp=r10 Will Teachers Unions Kill Virtual Learning? [...]

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Takeaways and Recommendations from the Gates Foundation’s ECET2 Conference

April 10, 2013

Part 2 of a look at takeaways from this recent “Elevating and Celebrating … Teaching” Conference On Sunday, we examined part 1 of Lalla Pierce’s insights from the ECET2 conference in the article “Technology as a Powerful Enabler of Teacher Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development“. Today we wrap this article up with further thoughts on [...]

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