Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
This week … what happens when teachers’ approaches collide?, explore how Learning Management Systems could be improved (hint: stop the feature overload!), learn how Competency Based Education is changing the game, explore evidence-based learning at MIT, what are the top concerns of school IT leaders?, 50 ways to challenge yourself as a teacher, encouraging #flipclass to get students more engaged … and more so much more to read and explore, so scan, click and learn what we have in store! (it does the heart good to get your Seuss on now and again :)).
10 reasons to get into a #flipclass so that you don’t #ihateschool
https://blog.peerinstruction.net/2016/03/28/10-reasons-why-you-should-get-into-a-flipped-class/
That’s Awesome! Project-centered MOOCs
https://cit.duke.edu/blog/2016/04/thats-awesome-project-based-moocs/
Great piece about the state of the #LMS and how it can be done better
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-04-08-the-trouble-with-learning-management
Top Concerns for School IT Leaders 1. Bandwidth 2. Security 3. Digital Materials
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/04/07/the-top-10-school-it-leader-concerns/
50 Ways To Challenge Yourself As A Teacher
http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/50-ways-challenge-teacher/
Challenge as more schools go online: #DigitalLearning in EVERY classroom & home http://hechingerreport.org/a-new-challenge-as-more-schools-go-online-can-educators-expand-digital-learning-to-every-classroom-and-home/
Insightful: Teacher Collaboration - when educational ideologies collide
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/educational-beliefs-collide-teachers-elena-aguilar
Research: Flipped Learning for ESL Students Shows Potential
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/04/05/research-flipped-learning-for-esl-students-shows-potential.aspx?admgarea=news
5 Ways Video Games Can Help Kids with Special Needs
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/games/5-ways-video-games-can-help-kids-with-special-needs/ar-BBrlLyv?li=BBnb7Kz
Optimizing Student Learning with Online Formative Feedback
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/4/optimizing-student-learning-with-online-formative-feedback
Velocity: new comprehensive ELA prog designed to help K-5 Ss rapidly achieve grade-level proficiency
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/velocity-a-revolutionary-new-digital-learning-solution-ushers-in-new-era-of-adaptive-learning-at-cosn-conference-300245819.html
UC Davis ‘Computer Science For All’ Now Available for Schools Nationwide
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-%E2%80%98computer-science-all%E2%80%99-now-available-schools-nationwide
MIT: #HigherEd disruption coming from learning science, scalable online #edtech, altered economics
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/online-education-catalyst-organizational-change
How Competency-Based Courses Are Changing the #Education Game:
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/03/how-competency-based-courses-are-changing-education-game
The Biggest Hurdle to #FlipClass is Flipping the Thinking of the Teacher. See this post
http://jonbergmann.com/thebiggesthurdle/
Evidence-based teaching is alive and well at MIT
http://news.mit.edu/2016/evidence-based-teaching-alive-and-well-at-mit-0401
How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601139/how-google-plans-to-solve-artificial-intelligence/
Snapchat 2.0: Clearly Not A Disappearing Teen Fad
http://techcrunch.com/video/snapchat-2-0-demo/519615518/?cps=gravity_1462_8064226660760099000
For prospective college Ss and their parents: Why Accreditation Matters
http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/accreditation/
Five Ways to Motivate Unprepared Students in the Flipped Classroom http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/five-ways-to-motivate-unprepared-students-in-the-flipped-classroom/
About Kelly Walsh
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. 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 online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Walsh became the Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network in June of 2016. In his "spare time" he also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com 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]
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