Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
This week … a must-have guide for selecting Apps for the classroom, a virtual time and field trip through the history of computing, learning with Legos, keys to successful blended learning, celebrating the many little things that teachers do to make school a good experience, how writing can “save 21st Century learning from itself”, and much more …
5 Big Classroom Problems You Can Solve with Technology
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/classroom-technology/
Explore in Google Sheets - A Helpful Data Visualization Tool for Students
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/explore-in-google-sheets-helpful-data.html
Green Screen fun: Digital classrooms replace traditional learning
http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/News/Local/2015-09-02/article-4266008/Digital-classrooms-replace-traditional-learning/1
The History of Computing: A Virtual Field Trip - A fun @Blendspace I made!
https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/CdmSWThRSWXzNA/history-of-computing-a-virtual-field-trip
Learning with Legos: youths build robots with popular toy
http://www.thebatt.com/science-technology/learning-with-legos-youths-build-robots-with-popular-toy/article_b917740e-506b-11e5-95ed-c3f53dd9c683.html
There's an app for that! Faculty Introduce Popular Paleontology Course as e-Textbook
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/uoa-taa082715.php
13 Keys to Successful Blended Learning
http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/09/01/13-keys-to-successful-blended-learning.aspx
Harvard Launches ‘Virtual Classroom' for Students Anywhere
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/harvard-launches-virtual-classroom-for-students-anywhere-734732
Flipping the classroom together—from 3,000 miles away
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/09/01/flipping-together-394/
Celebrating the small things #teachers do — little moments that make a big impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nav0GpNqorU
Survey: Parents on Board with Adaptive Digital Learning
http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/08/31/survey-parents-on-board-with-adaptive-digital-learning.aspx
So true … Readers’ Definitions of #EdTech Buzzwords: Confusion, Skepticism Continue
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/readers-defintions-of-ed-tech-buzzwords-confusion-and-skepticism-continue/57301
“The most important element in every classroom has never changed … it’s the teacher.”
http://edblog.smarttech.com/2015/08/technology-in-the-classroom-where-the-real-magic-lives/
These Smart Cities Of The Future Were Designed By Smart Middle-School Students
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3049422/these-smart-cities-of-the-future-were-designed-by-smart-middle-school-students
What Pixar's ‘Inside Out' Teaches Us About The Science Of Memory
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2015/08/30/inside-out-science/
Apps in Schools Do More Than Expected
http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/education/apps-schools-do-more-than-expected
Colleges embrace the question ‘How can we do that online?'
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20150830/NEWS/308309995/colleges-embrace-the-question-how-can-we-do-that-online
Not your grandma’s lecture: High-tech rooms enable more ‘flipped’ courses
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/aug/30/not-your-grandmas-lecture-class-high-tech-rooms-en/
Writing can save 21st Century Learning from itself
http://www.teachthought.com/literacy-2/writing-can-save-21st-century-learning-from-itself/
A Must Have Guide on How to Evaluate Apps for The Classroom
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/09/a-must-have-guide-on-how-to-evaluate-apps-for-classroom.html
