Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
Zoom! There goes November and the end of a quarter for most in K-12! And here comes December, and with it Christmas (and Christmas break!), winter in the northern hemisphere (brrr!), and the end of another semester in Higher Ed. 2016 should be full of promise. Get ready for it with some “nano PD”, or encourage your students to change the world in their own small way with custom coding, explore some of the best tech and gadgets 2015 had offered, check out Quizlet (if you’re not one of the hundreds of thousands who already have), learn more about the evolving state of microcredentials & nanodegrees, or explore Microsoft’s new Sway tool for interactive reports, presentations, and stories …
Nano-Professional Development: 20 Quick Courses For Teachers
http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/nano-professional-development-20-quick-courses-teachers/
How would you change the world? Welcome to “<code> generation” (from @Microsoft)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/mt608548
The best of tech in 2015
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/11/24/best-in-tech-2015/
Get Outside With These Educational Apps
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/11/get-outside-with-these-educational-apps.html
Interesting: Higher Ed Has Failed Students - How Minerva Plans to Fix It
http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/24/higher-ed-has-failed-students-heres-how-we-plan-to-fix-it/
Want to collaborate with your students to create a @sway? Check out this tutorial video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBTecFGokI
Beyond Textbooks and OER: reflecting on #OpenEd15
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/beyond-textbooks-and-oer-reflecting-on-opened15/61342
Get ready for Li-Fi, a technology 100 times faster than Wi-Fi
http://mashable.com/2015/11/25/li-fi/#aL1uS2XL5qqR
Are We Getting Smarter about Ed Tech, or No?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/are-we-getting-smarter-about-ed-tech-suzie-boss
Project Based Learning: Teaching Students to Be Curators
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/project-based-learning-student-curators/
The 36 coolest gadgets of 2015
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/11/24/coolest-gadgets-2015/index.html
Author discusses book offering critical analysis of MOOCs from social science perspective
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/24/author-discusses-book-analyzing-massive-open-online-courses-social-science
Quizlet, World's Most Popular Learning Tool, Passes 1 Billion Study Sessions!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quizlet-worlds-most-popular-learning-tool-passes-one-billion-study-sessions-raises-12m-series-a-300182886.html
Coding on iPads – Beginner to Pro:
http://eduwells.com/2015/04/19/coding-on-ipads-beginner-to-pro/
Hacking the Brain — Restoring Lost Abilities w/new Neurotechnologies
http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/23/hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies/
So cool: Disney Research has developed tech for augmented reality coloring books
http://nerdist.com/disney-brings-augmented-reality-coloring-books-to-the-world/
Could “Nanodegrees” Be The Solution To The Student Debt Crisis?
http://www.fastcompany.com/3053305/the-future-of-work/could-nanodegrees-be-the-solution-to-the-student-debt-crisis
10 Ways to Flip a Kid and Turn Their Day Around
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/10-ways-to-flip-a-kid-and-turn-their-day-around/
Many are working to bring credibility to Microcredentials
http://www.wsj.com/articles/online-skills-are-hot-but-will-they-land-you-a-job-1447806460
10 Strategies To Make Learning Feel More Like A Game http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/30225/
