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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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Included in this week’s tweet wrap … ‘other’ skills (beyond the already challenging reading, writing, and math!) that K-12 schools should be teaching students to prepare them for higher ed and careers; key factors (supported by data) that impact online learning success; using digital tech to reduce paper consumption; and plenty of good resources, tips, and insights, as always.
For Public Schools, the Long and Bumpy Road to Going Digital (“The Messy Decade”)
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/for-public-schools-the-long-and-bumpy-road-to-going-digital/ [3]
5 higher-ed skills to teach K-12 students now
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/08/13/skills-higher-ed-843/ [4]
15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/15-examples-student-centered-teaching/ [5]
Seven Web-based Tools for Delivering Flipped Lessons
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/seven-web-based-tools-for-delivering.html#.U-9hBmPqX90 [6]
15 terrific resources for close reading
http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2014/08/close-reading.html [7]
60 iPad Productivity Apps For Modern, Mobile Teachers
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/60-ipad-productivity-apps-mobile-teachers/ [8]
Tests That Look Like Video Games
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/07/337129961/tests-that-look-like-video-games [9]
Physics Prof. Tim Good uses technology to engage students with classwork
http://www.gettysburg.edu/news_events/press_release_detail.dot?id=6ecb5510-6664-4b5c-93b2-4ba9b3d86f01 [10]
6 factors that weigh heavily in success or failure of online learning platforms (MIT)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/08/11/mit-team-turns-6-9-million-clicks-into-insights-to-improve-online-education/ [11]
Google Chromebooks eating into US education market, says Gartner
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/11/google-chromebooks-education-market-gartner [12]
Can Universities Use Data to Fix What Ails the Lecture?
http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Universities-Use-Data-to/148307/ [13]
Save the Trees - Try These Tools to Conserve Paper in School
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/08/save-trees-try-these-tools-to-conserve.html [14]
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About Kelly Walsh [21]
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 [22] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [23]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [24] 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]