This week’s collection of 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).
This week … what should a modern education look like? More potential for digital badges, digital learning success across the globe, social media playing an engaging role in online learning, good free tools for collecting ‘exit tickets’ (assessing if students ‘got it’), and more!
In Search Of The Right Blend Of Learning
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/4-important-questions-that-precede-the-design-ofa-modern-education/
Social Media Gains Momentum in Online Education
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2014/11/05/social-media-gains-momentum-in-online-education
Digital Badge Systems Are Promising Tools for Effectively Demonstrating College & Career Readiness
http://all4ed.org/articles/promise-and-potential-digital-badge-systems-are-promising-learning-tools-for-effectively-demonstrating-students-college-and-career-ready-skills-new-alliance-report-finds/
Students finding success with ‘flipped’ learning
http://www.app.com/story/news/education/education-trends/2014/11/05/students-finding-success-flipped-learning/18572583/
Study Looks at Three Learning Predictors of Digital Learning
http://www.educationworld.com/a_news/study-looks-three-learning-predictors-digital-learning-1427301852#sthash.S6ekTLHC.dpuf
Take It From the Top: Making Superintendents ‘Future-Ready’
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-11-05-take-it-from-the-top-making-superintendents-future-ready
Leveling the Playing Field with Technology: It’s No Longer a Choice
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-11-03-leveling-the-playing-field-with-technology-it-s-no-longer-a-choice
Creating music in classrooms using code teaches productive ‘risk-taking’ in next generation
http://phys.org/news/2014-11-music-classrooms-code-risk-taking.html
A bold reboot of classrooms around the world
http://www.independent.co.uk/commercial/wise/a-bold-reboot-of-classrooms-around-the-world-9800936.html
Two-Thirds of Faculty Unaware of Open Education Resources
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/10/29/two-thirds-of-faculty-unaware-of-open-education-resources.aspx
A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors Of Academic Performance
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/factors-of-academic-performance/
Synthesizing and Sharing Through ThingLink
http://www.reading.org/reading-today/classroom/post/engage/2014/10/31/synthesizing-and-sharing-through-thinglink
Personalization, Possibilities and Challenges with Learning Analytics
https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-10-30-opinion-personalization-possibilities-and-challenges-with-learning-analytics
Flipped Teaching + Active Learning = Excellent Educational Possibilities
http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/flipped-teaching-plus-active-learning-equals-better-education/
Digital Tech Having a Positive Impact on Student Achievement
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1410/S00156/digital-tech-having-a-positive-impact-on-student-achievement.htm
5 Ways to Collect Digital Exit Tickets
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/11/5-ways-to-collect-digital-exit-tickets.html
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
The Engaging Power of Using Social Constructs in Your Online Courses
Is Competency Based Education the Next Game Changer on the Horizon? Can it Succeed?
Flipped Teaching and Learning – A Form of Blended Learning That Just Makes Sense
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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