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 … creating interactive timelines (great for student assignments and projects), gaining a better understanding of gamification and badging in the classroom, telling stories through maps, learning about cool new VR tools from Google for the classroom, books every teacher should read, considerations of the evolving relationship between education, tech, and workplace expectations, and more!
The Kinds Of Things Learning Badges Can Emphasize
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/7-innovative-strategies-to-create-learning-badges/
Reading Rainbow launches new ‘digital library’ w/ 500+ books, 150+ video field trips
https://www.readingrainbow.com/
5 Stories Your Students Can Tell Through Maps
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/5-stories-your-students-can-tell.html
5 Higher Ed Learning Trends About to Reshape the Workplace
http://blog.grovo.com/4-higher-ed-learning-trends-reshape-workplace/
Google Virtual-Reality System Aims to Enliven Education
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/technology/google-virtual-reality-system-aims-to-enliven-education.html
16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read
http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/12-books-learning-every-teacher-read/
Next gen of workers will be expecting jobs to be powered by mobile app
http://www.information-age.com/technology/mobile-and-networking/123460243/how-mobile-technology-education-shaping-next-generation-employees
Badgestack Is An Open-Source Tool For Gamifying Learning
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/badgestack-gamifies-learning/
Backwards Planning and App-Based Lessons
http://appedreview.com/blog/backwards-planning-and-app-based-lessons/
Hands-on science education works best in college, too
http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/hands-on-science-education-works-best-in-college-too/
Good Tools for Teaching Ss How to Evaluate Web Content Credibility
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/09/favorite-tools-for-evaluating-web-site-credibility/
What 26 Edtech Companies Have To Say About Personalized Learning
http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/09/25/personalized-learning-edtech-companies-deep-dive-at-educelerate-2015/
Tech & effective learning will never go hand in hand until [#edtech] business listens to the experts
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/how-ed-tech-worship-erodes-great-teaching-%E2%80%93-according-someone-who
Educating at the Intersection of Art & Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/educating-at-the-intersec_b_8176886.html
Create Interactive Timelines with Tiki-Toki
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/09/create-interactive-timelines-with-tiki.html
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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