Making the case for Education Technologies

Guest Post: Technology Workshops for Grad Students

May 23, 2010

Washington U’s workshops, with their focus on pedagogy first, are a nice model for teaching educators about incorporating technology in the classroom. Guest Post By Bryn Lutes and Tanya Roth. Bryn and Tanya are instructors at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and have helped to evolve the offerings discussed here into the current series of workshops, focused on effective technology use [...]

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5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog

May 5, 2010

‘Teacher Tech’ is an informative Education Technology resource worth being tuned into. I have the good fortune of being one of a handful of educators and bloggers chosen to participate in a series of guest posts on Microsoft’s teacher-focused blog site this week. Just for clarity’s sake, I should mention that I am not actually a teacher (the other guest [...]

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Great Education Technology Story: CPS Student Response System helps to improve FCAT scores

March 28, 2010

7th Grade Math Teacher shows clear learning outcome improvements while engaging students with this interactive education technology. As announced last week, one of our two winners in this contest was Juanita Rodriguez, 7th Grade Math Teacher at Don Estridge High Tech Middle School in Florida. Rodriguez employed CPS (Classroom Performance System) response systems from eInstruction in her class for the last [...]

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And the winners are …

March 21, 2010

Announcing the winners of the “Great Use of Ed Tech” story contest! It’s my great pleasure to share some of the wonderful stories that were submitted to the contest I’ve been running for several weeks here, and to announce the winning entries. With plenty of great stories about engaging, impactful uses of Education Technology in the [...]

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Kaplan University Professor commercial spot grabs my attention.

March 17, 2010

As I was combing through a few different drafted posts and ideas for this week’s mid week post, this commercial came on. It sure caught my attention. Kudos to Kaplan for packing such a punch. I had to share it. Share this with a colleague today. [Ed Note: I have noticed that the Google ad [...]

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Education Technology - Don’t Lean On It, Leverage It (Repost)

September 23, 2009

Forgive me for repeating myself, but I feel a certain passion for this recent post, and I don’t think it got a fair deal, being posted on a holiday (Labor Day), and at the beginning of a week where many of us were swamped with the start of a new school year. For this week’s “midweek update” I am promoting my post “Education Technology - Don’t Lean It, Leverage It!” from earlier this month. Please click through and give the first paragraph or two a quick read - I hope this will interest you enough to read further, and to also pass it on to a colleague if you think it can make an impact and encourage someone to give education technology a try in the classroom. Thanks!

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Education Technology - Don’t Lean On It, Leverage It!

September 7, 2009

Are you using Internet tools to engage students in the classroom and improve learning outcomes, or are you just using technology to decrease the time you need to spend lecturing and interacting with your students?

There are many great internet based tools available to bring new elements of collaboration, interaction, and even a little fun to the instructional process and thereby better engage and motivate your students and enhance learning outcomes. Of course, it is also entirely possible to use technology as a crutch or a “baby sitter”, but this is a rather unfortunate use of these tools and can give education technology a bad name.

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8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education

July 13, 2009

These inspiring, insightful videos make the case for stepping up the integration of technology in today’s classrooms

As an advocate of the use of Internet technologies in education, my fundamental goal is to inspire instructors and other members of the educational community to embrace the use of these technologies in today’s educational process. I’ve attempted to make the case myself in a couple previous blog posts, such as the popular “5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies” and “10 Internet technologies that educators should be informed about”. Of course, many others have made the case as well (and generally done so in a more captivating manner) as the videos below will attest.

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Article “Why Web 2.0 is important to Higher Ed” (Mid Week Update)

May 20, 2009

Read this article by Trent Batson recently on CampusTechnology.com, and thought it made for an interesting mid week follow up to this week’s “5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies” post. Here is a excerpt from this article: “Culturally speaking, with the advent of Web 2.0, the “traditional classroom” with one speaker and many listeners [...]

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5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies

May 17, 2009

In April I wrote a post about 10 internet technologies that educators should be informed about. This quickly became my most read posting. I included some references in this article to why educators should be aware of and informed about these tools, but most of those comments were really about why each specific technology was included in the list, as opposed to why, in a more general sense, it is important for educators to make an effort to embrace these technologies. So that is the topic for this week - why you should care, as an educator, about these tools. What’s in it for you as an instructor, and what’s in it for your students?

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