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’s wrap is chock full of cranial nutrition and recreation for the tech-enabled teacher! Enjoy an excellent video about the realities of “revolutionizing” education with technology, a study confirming the potential for tablets support the development of reading skills, learn about Sal Khan’s “universal degree”, the most downloaded educational Android app of the year, measuring the speed of light with a microwave and a chocolate bar, strategies for better professional development, and other fun resources and insightful articles …
“This Will Revolutionize Education” VERY Well Done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c&app=desktop
New teaching model a ‘game changer’
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/12/new-teaching-model-game-changer
Report: Embracing Technology Can Help Bridge the Skills Gap
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/12/16/report-embracing-technology-can-help-bridge-the-skills-gap
Can iPads, Nooks and Kindles Motivate Students to Read More?
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/ecm-tablet-reading/
10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015
http://www.personalizelearning.com/2014/12/10-trends-to-personalize-learning-in.html#sthash.Bj0carFT.uxfs
What Are MOOCs Good For?
http://www.technologyreview.com/review/533406/what-are-moocs-good-for/
Report: Technology can address some of the challenges facing public flagship universities
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/15/report-recommends-public-flagship-universities-plan-incentivize-technology-classroom
Sal Khan working on “a universal degree that’s comparable to a Stanford degree”
http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/14/khan-academy-founder-has-a-couple-of-big-ideas-for-overhauling-higher-education-in-the-sciences/
Doulingo - The Most Downloaded Educational Android App of 2014
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/doulingo-most-downloaded-educational.html
Quaker Valley students turn to robotics after school
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2014/12/18/Quaker-Valley-students-turn-to-robotics-after-school/stories/201411200038
How Big is Digital Education in the United States? An End of Year Review
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2014/12/15-online-learning-update
Partnership builds creative digital technology in Wisconsin classrooms
http://www.news.wisc.edu/23362
Measure the Speed of Light With a Chocolate Bar and Microwave
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/measure-speed-of-light-with-chocolate.html
Technology to Bring an Assessment ‘Renaissance,’ Pearson Report Contends
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2014/12/technology_assessment_pearson.html
Oklahoma U has an awesome “T.E.C.H. playground”
http://newsok.com/thinking-out-of-the-jungle-gym-osus-new-playground-is-all-about-technology/article/5372586
Can #edtech reduce costs, increase quality, & increase access? “I always say, pick two.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/college-of-tomorrow/articles/2014/12/12/professors-grow-weary-of-idea-that-technology-can-salvage-higher-education
5 Strategies For Better Teacher Professional Development
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/5-strategies-better-teacher-professional-development/
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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