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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’s Wrap includes … resources for using YouTube as an instructional aid more effectively, Google drawing templates, ebooks full of lesson ideas for the iPad equipped classroom, a few resources reflecting on the “Hour of Code”, a fun tool for creating “playing” or “trading” cards for historical or fictional characters, and more. It starts with a review of a book that I definitely want to read!
“Outstanding new book provides a road map for truly effective teaching with technology”
http://chronicle.com/article/Educating-Minds-Online/150743/ [3]
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching With YouTube
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/25-best-resources-teaching-youtube/ [4]
How 3-D Printing Will Change Education
http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2014/12/08/how-3-d-printing-will-change-education/ [5]
Resources & Strategies for Flipping Music Class
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/resources-and-strategies-for-flipping-the-music-classroom/ [6]
Learning Is The Ultimate Disruption
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/learning-ultimate-disruption/ [7]
The Role of Literacy in Deeper Learning
http://www.scilearn.com//blog/role-of-literacy-in-deeper-learning [8]
New report explores use of digital games in classrooms during learning process
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-explores-digital-games-classroom.html [9]
Google Drawings - 20 Useful Classroom Templates
http://www.appsusergroup.org/resources/drawings-templates [10]
Why is choosing the right technology such a challenge for education?
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/12/09/why-is-choosing-the-right-technology-such-a-challenge-for-education/ [11]
Tell Your Story Gives Teachers a New Digital Learning Tool to Support Self-Directed Prof Dev
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2381622 [12]
Ebooks of Lesson Ideas for iPad Apps in the Classroom
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/ebooks-of-lesson-ideas-for-ipad-apps-in.html [13]
Instructors on Integrating a “Flipped Classroom” Teaching Style
http://blog.cengage.com/instructors-on-integrating-a-flipped-classroom-teaching-style/ [14]
2 Good Sites and 2 Good iPad Apps to Virtually Explore Chemical Reactions
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/2-good-sites-and-2-good-ipad-apps-to.html [15]
Why we need to start teaching code in our primary schools
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/why-we-need-to-start-teaching-code-in-our-primary-schools-30811209.html [16]
19 Reading Response Questions That Work With Most Texts
http://www.teachthought.com/literacy-2/19-reading-response-questions-self-guided-response/ [17]
Create Trading Cards for Fictional and Historical Characters
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/create-trading-cards-for-fictional-and.html [18]
The Shifting Landscape of Apple Vs. Chromebook in Education Market
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/05/is-apple-inc-losing-the-5-billion-ed-tech-market.aspx [19]
Rethinking Low Completion Rates in MOOCs (not all who start plan to finish)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/rethinking-low-completion-rates-in-moocs/55211 [20]
The Big Picture Of Education Technology: The Padagogy Wheel
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-padagogy-wheel-convergent-thinking-in-learning-technology/ [21]
About Kelly Walsh [26]
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 [27] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [28]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [29] 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]