Digital Learning and #Edtech Tweet Wrap for Week Ending 01-10-15

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc.

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

Highlights from this week’s wrap include tech predictions from Higher Ed CIOs, strategies for teachers to digitally collaborate with each other, using timelines as digital portfolios, approaches to engaging every learner with Universal Design, strategies for engaging the “Netflix generation”, what’s hot and what’s not as we head into 2015, and much more!

Great short video on exciting ways tech can transform #teaching & #learning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwPKkm3EqDg&feature;=youtu.be&list;=UUcTxg5NAkwle8yaMx2nrAKw

Good takeaway: Research shows students write more seriously when it'll be peer eval'd
http://futures.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/01/09/collaborative-learning-for-a-digital-age/

12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/guidebook-social-media-in-classroom-vicki-davis

New Digital Math Textbook Incorporates Inquiry-Based Learning
http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/01/08/new-digital-math-textbook-incorporates-inquiry-based-learning.aspx

What do higher ed CIOs predict for campus tech in 2015?
http://www.educationdive.com/news/what-do-higher-ed-cios-predict-for-campus-tech-in-2015/348364/

Start Something: 13 Teacher Strategies For Digital Collaboration
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/strategies-for-digital-collaboration/

Using Timelines as Digital Portfolios and Reflections on Learning
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/using-timelines-as-digital-portfolios.html

Disrupting Class is the Goal of Canada's 7th Annual #DigitalLearning Video Challenge
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/disrupting-class-is-the-goal-of-canadas-7th-annual-digital-learning-video-challenge-1980535.htm

When a #FlipClass Pioneer Hands Off His Video Lectures, This Is What Happens
http://chronicle.com/article/When-a-Flipped-Classroom/151031/

6 Ways to Engage Every Learner Using UDL
http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/12/03/6-ways-to-engage-every-learner-using-udl.aspx

5 TED Talks Teachers Should Watch w/ Students:
http://www.edudemic.com/ted-talks-teachers-students/

20 Ways To Get A Noisy Classroom’s Attention
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/20-ways-quiet-noisy-students/

5 Strategies For Engaging The Netflix Generation
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/5-strategies-engaging-students-with-video/

Online classroom launched for visually challenged
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/online-classroom-launched-for-visually-challenged/article6736089.ece

Flipped classes teach from different perspective
http://theroundupnews.com/2014/12/19/flipped-classes-teach-different-perspective/

Smartphone, our new learning tool
http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/smartphone-our-new-learning-tool-51528

What's Hot and What's Not in Ed Tech for 2015
http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/01/05/whats-hot-and-whats-not-in-ed-tech-for-2015.aspx