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Education and Instructional Tech Tweet Wrap for the Week of 03-31-14

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This week’s collection of inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc.

(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech [2] over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).


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This week we have a mix of inspiration, opinion, tips, and questions. Food for thought, questions to ponder, wonders to behold, and more …

Our View: Technology in education sets stage for the real world (well said!) -
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20140401/OPINION/304010003/Our-View-Technology-education-sets-stage-real-world [3]?

10 Tips for Personalized Learning via #Technology:
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-ten-key-lessons [4]

Focus on the Opportunities Ed Tech Brings, Not the Hype:
http://educationnext.org/focus-opportunities-ed-tech-brings-hype/ [5]

How Video is Changing the Way We Teach Children:
http://www.reelseo.com/video-education-report/ [6]

Nantwich teacher earns national acclaim for “flipped learning” approach:
http://nantwich-news.co.uk/wordpress/2014/04/01/nantwich-teacher-earns-national-acclaim-for-flipped-learning-approach/ [7]

Report from education think tank calls for definition of #digital #literacy:
http://www.cp24.com/news/report-from-education-think-tank-calls-for-definition-of-digital-literacy-1.1753742#ixzz2xdUz4EYg [8]

7 Tips, Techniques to Encourage Technology Innovation @ Your School:
http://www.pil-network.com/HotTopics/changemanagement/tips-to-foster-education-instructional-technology-innovation [9]

MT @jackiegerstein: See how kids are becoming leaders & changing the world:
http://justcoz.org/donated/KidsAreHeroes/16802/jackiegerstein [10]

Five Things I Want Teachers To Know About #Edtech (student shares advice about implementing edtech):
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-03-28-five-things-i-want-teachers-to-know-about-edtech [11]

RT @jackiegerstein: Do You Know Me? The Voice of a Disgruntled Student in a Boring Class:
http://gettingsmart.com/2014/03/know-voice-disgruntled-student-boring-class/ [12]

If Digital #Literacy is a Basic Skill, Who’s Responsible for Teaching It?
http://www.teachingquality.org/content/if-digital-literacy-basic-skill-whos-responsible-teaching-it [13]


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Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
Do Video Lessons Reinforce Learning, or Just Reinforce Pre-existing Incorrect Understanding? [15]
Flipping Awesome! Enabling Mastery Learning in the Flipped Classroom
7 Tips and Techniques to Encourage Education and Instructional Technology Innovation at Your Institution [9]

About Kelly Walsh [20]

Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [21] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [22]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [23] and have a listen!

[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]