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Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
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This week … virtual reality is combining digital learning and the real world and bringing the astronaut’s experience to students, busting stereotypes and connecting girls and women with science and tech, school leaders need to move from talk to leading meaningful tech integrations, experience science like chemical reactions or a planetarium right in your browser, learning about the easy FIZZ method for creating your own digital teaching videos, and more!
Women AREN’T in Tech, but they ARE in #EdTech… Why?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/barbarakurshan/2015/08/05/women-arent-in-tech-but-they-are-in-edtech-why/ [3]
Campaign #ILookLikeAnEngineer busting stereotypes about (software) engineering
http://uk.businessinsider.com/ilooklikeanengineer-hashtag-highlights-engineer-diversity-2015-8 [4]
How tech-driven learning can benefit students with disabilities
http://www.educationdive.com/news/how-tech-driven-learning-can-benefit-students-with-disabilities/403449/ [5]
Move over science, humanities’ tech-savvy research is making waves
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/aug/05/move-over-science-humanities-tech-savvy-research-is-making-waves [6]
Put a Planetarium in Your Web Browser
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/08/put-planetarium-in-your-web-browser.html [7]
Flip Like an Expert – 3 Part Series on Best Practices for Successful #FlipClass
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/best-practices-for-successful-flipped-classrooms-content/ [8]
Learning Basic Tech Skills is Easier Than you Think
http://www.techly.com.au/2015/08/04/no-matter-know-technology-learning-basic-tech-skills-easier-think/ [9]
Do you Know the FIZZ Method for Creating #DigitalLearning Content from @pocketlodge?
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/fizz-method-easy-good-flipped-learning-content-videos/ [10]
Find opportunities to learn computer science w/ Google’s new online portal
http://9to5google.com/2015/08/03/opportunities-learn-computer-science-with-googles-new-online-portal/ [11]
The Key to Digital Learning? Bring It Into the Real World
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/key-digital-learning-bring-real-world/ [12]
Virtual Reality Will Let You Experience the Awe Only Astronauts Have Known
http://singularityhub.com/2015/08/03/virtual-reality-will-let-you-experience-the-awe-only-astronauts-have-known/ [13]
If School Leaders Don’t Get It, It’s Not Going to Happen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-sheninger/if-school-leaders-dont-ge_b_6214906.html [14]
Chemical Reactions in a Safe, Online Environment
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/08/chemical-reactions-in-safe-online.html [15]
Connect girls with science to solve world’s problems
http://www.vaildaily.com/news/17511797-113/vail-daily-column-connect-girls-with-science-to [16]
A Definition Of Web Literacy (And How Students Can Benefit)
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/a-definition-of-web-literacy-and-how-students-can-benefit/ [17]
About Kelly Walsh [22]
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 [23] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [24]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [25] 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]