Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers.
So much to delve into in this week’s Tweet Wrap … is Google becoming the “operating system” for K-12 in the US?, spend some time in the world of Famous Explorers with PBS, consider pros and cons of how technology can impact young learners, learn how data collection can be used to improve STEM learning, get more up to speed on Infographics as an instructional tool, and more. I also share two articles I wrote for University Business that consider the teaching and technology outlook as we head into 2016 (one at the Higher Ed level and one focused on K-12).
Unless #edtech is having a demonstrable impact on teaching & learning, it's not good enough
http://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/delivering-on-the-edtech-promise
Outlook on #HigherEd #EdTech: Mobile & Video Explosion, CBE comes of age, #MOOC lives on
https://www.universitybusiness.com/article/outlook-technology-learning-shifts-infrastructure-lifts
PBS World Explorers - The Lives & Journeys of Famous Explorers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/01/pbs-world-explorers-lives-journeys-of.html
Experiential Learning: I hear & I forget; I see & I remember; I do & I understand – Confucius
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9NencoN1zcw/TXFo3sYr2VI/AAAAAAAAABA/ms-ipX_oVkk/s1600/HowDoWeLearnPyramid.gif
50 #EdTech, Innovation in Education & STEAM Blogs Teachers Should Bookmark
http://forensicoutreach.com/50-edtech-innovation-in-education-and-steam-blogs-that-teachers-need-to-bookmark/
Reading, writing, robots: A look at education technology on display at CES
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jan/07/reading-writing-robots-a-look-at-education-technol/
Tinto's 1975 #HigherEd Drop Out model is as relevant today as ever!
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1170024?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents
5 important revelations from first year online learners
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/first-online-learners-893/
My 2016 K-12 Outlook article, “Classrooms Get Smarter” in District Admin Mag!
http://www.districtadministration.com/article/outlook-classrooms-get-smarter
U.S. Ed-Tech Plan Calls Attention to ‘Digital-Use Divide'
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/01/06/us-ed-tech-plan-calls-attention-to-digital-use.html
7 ways data collection is improving #STEM education
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/01/04/7-ways-data-collection-is-improving-stem-education/
‘Untold story': Postsecondary learning steadily improving (2 keys: competition, online ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/3-things-i%E2%80%99ll-say-about-edtech-2016
The Educators Guide To Infographics:
http://www.theedublogger.com/2015/03/02/the-educators-guide-to-infographics/
Meet Leka, ‘Social robot' designed to help children with autism learn new skills
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3383778/Meet-Leka-social-robot-designed-help-children-autism-learn-new-skills-using-lights-vibrations-sounds.html
A Bit Of A Montessori 2.0′: Kahn Academy Opens A Lab School
http://www.activevoice.us/article.jsp?name=abitofamontessori20kahnacademyopensalabschool&t=Math#/
Is Google is becoming U.S. K-12 schools' operating system?
http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_29336687/quinn-google-is-becoming-u-s-k-12
How to Cultivate Teacher Agency and Buy-In When Going 1:1
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-01-02-how-to-cultivate-teacher-agency-and-buy-in-when-going-1-1
Many Coding “Nanodegree” programs developed by Google and Udacity
https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree
How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus (pros & cons)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201212/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-children-think-and-focus
