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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 08-20-12

by Kelly Walsh on August 24, 2012

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This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets.

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


What can happen if you design a school around the student, not the bureacracy? Carpe Diem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_O65rWV10&feature=player_embedded

3 Goals and 3 Challenges for our Educational Technology Leaders:
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/3-goals-and-3-challenges-our-educational-technology-leaders#ixzz24MvHeWBs

[Infographic] How and why tablets are being used in the classroom:
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/08/teaching-with-tablets/

Students encouraged to bring digital devices to class:
http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/newalbany/news/2012/08/21/new-albany-plain-local-schools-students-encouraged-to-bring-digital-devices-to-class.html

Teachers Turn To Internet For Class Project Money:
http://www.ktts.com/news/166990406.html

[Infographic] Learning Analytics: Leveraging Education Data:
http://newsroom.opencolleges.edu.au/learning-analytics-infographic/

Preparation, Training Key to Exploiting Education Technology:
http://www.educationnews.org/technology/preparation-training-key-to-exploiting-education-technology/

Education Leaders See MOOCs, Distance Learning as the Future of Higher Ed:
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/08/20/education-leaders-see-moocs-distance-learning-as-the-future.aspx

Reflection on the Privilege of Education Technology:
http://www.technapex.com/2012/08/reflection-on-the-privilege-of-education-technology/

Best of the Summer – (Free) Tools for Gathering Feedback:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/08/best-of-summer-tools-for-gathering.html

Ed Tech Task Force, “every student should have access to Internet anytime, anywhere”:
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2012/08/16/report-says-students-should-have-more-internet-access-at-school

As K-12 classrooms go high-tech, colleges get more virtual:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48358371/ns/technology_and_science-back_to_school/

What You Need to Know About MOOC’s:
http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/133475/

Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
Mark Milliron’s Sobering, Honest, and Inspiring Keynote Address at CT2012
4 Ways to use Online Resources to Keep Advanced Students Engaged and Learning

100 Ways to Teach With Twitter

About 

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 online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here. Kelly 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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