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 Tweet Wrap includes excellent questions to help you assess whether your use of technology is truly transformative for students, lots of great free tools and resources for teaching and learning, healing the world one classroom at a time, and many more powerful insights and ideas. Read on and commence to clicking!
Excellent article from Alan November w/6 Qs re: truly meaningful use of #edtech for learning:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/01/13/questions-innovation-303/
Our Pedagogical Imperative: Making All Learners Feel Competent
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/pedagogical-imperative-making-learners-feel-competent/
College hackathons are growing in number—and getting more organized
http://chronicle.com/article/Hackers-Descend-on-a-Campus/151239/
MT @educanon123: # of teachers who've flipped has grown from 48% to 78% in 2 yrs!
http://blog.educanon.com/flipped-classroom/flipped-class-stay
MT @everetteach: In an Era of Conflict, Healing the World One Classroom at a Time
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/01/in-an-era-of-conflict-healing-the-world-one-classroom-at-a-time/
The Global Future of Education at 5.5 Inches - Mobile is Future of HE for Much of World
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/global-future-education-55-inches
RT @EDUCAUSEreview: Most popular article every year: Top 10 IT Issues (2015 edition)
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/top-10-it-issues-2015-inflection-point
Effective Ways to Structure Discussion Boards - good practices!
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/effective-ways-structure-discussion/
MT @RHNilsson: 7 reasons why your school should teach robotics & game design
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/01/13/robotics-stem-166/print/
Three Efficient Ways to Keep Parents Informed About Your Class and Their Children
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/three-efficient-ways-to-keep-parents.html
My Personal Learning Plan - Keeping up With #EdTech (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfE2c-OT1w
Top 10 benefits of a digital classroom
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/advertising/top-10-benefitsa-digital-classroom_1272746.html
RT @dtapscott: Lego and maths: building blocks for an education?
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/11/lego-maths-education-moretomaths-schools-teachers
#FlipClass can put “emphasis back where it should be: mastery of concepts & attainment of knowledge”
http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/story/12786
Duolingo made language acquisition free for consumers, now they're turning to education
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2015/01/08/duolingo-for-schools-may-change-the-edtech-market/
History in Motion - Create Multimedia History Stories
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/history-in-motion-create-multimedia.html
Explore the World with the Google Cultural Institute
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/explore-world-with-google-cultural.html
MT @ScottRRocco: Awesome! 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom | The Curious Creative
http://edte.ch/blog/2008/08/23/10-google-forms-for-the-classroom/
RT @EdTechFam: A Beautiful Illustration of The Impact of Technology on Education
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/01/a-beautiful-illustration-of-impact-of.html
