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 … check out how a teacher puts together this awesome, affordable plexiglass see through ‘white board' for recording video lectures, bring math to life with a maker workshop, get a better understanding of what Artificial Intelligence means, check out a handful of apps to help students study, learn how exercise helps the brain learn and retain, explore a flipped learning ‘tool kit' from Sams and Bergmann, how about a nice set of video games that tackle some of today's challenging social issues?, and more, much more … so go and explore!
Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk
4 Ways to Use ThingLink's Virtual Reality App in Your Classroom
http://classtechtips.com/2016/05/02/4-ways-to-use-thinglinks-virtual-reality-app-in-your-classroom/
Artificial Intelligence - Broken Down and Explained (video)
https://www.insidescience.org/content/artificial-intelligence-broken-down-and-explained/4046
Exploring @EdSurge's year long journey exploring evolution, impact of #edtech
https://www.edsurge.com/research/special-reports/state-of-edtech-2016/k12_edtech_trends
Why Learning Science & #EdTech Research Often Fails in the Classroom
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-06-16-why-research-fails-in-the-classroom
(S's need more phys activity in class!) Memory-Boosting Trick: Exercise After Learning
http://www.livescience.com/55095-exercise-helps-you-retain-new-info.html
How Turning #Math Into a Maker Workshop Can Bring Calculations to Life!
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/19/how-turning-math-into-a-maker-workshop-can-bring-calculations-to-life/
Flipped-Learning Toolkit: Let's Talk Tech
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-learning-lets-talk-tech-jon-bergmann
A New Version of Google Sites is Coming
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/06/a-new-version-of-google-sites-is-coming.html
Top Apps to Make Your Students Studying Machines
http://directnetwork.mbsdirect.net/the-top-apps-to-make-your-students-studying-machines
How to download Coursera’s courses before they’re gone forever
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-day-472-free-online-courses-will-vanish-from-the-internet-3060bb4e9704#.crds08ju8
UC Clermont Professor Uses Online Tools to Enhance Student Engagement
http://www.uc.edu/profiles/profile.asp?id=23500
10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs A Professional Learning Network
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/10-reasons-every-teacher-needs-professional-learning-network/
Digital disabilities — text neck, cellphone elbow — are painful and growing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/digital-disabilities-text-neck-cellphone-elbow-are-painful-and-growing/2016/06/13/df070c7c-0afd-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html
4 Pillars of F-L-I-P: No 4: PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS!
http://www.slideshare.net/emergingedtech/the-four-pillars-of-flipped-learning-flip
Indian schoolgirl recreates periodic table with 90 global issues
http://mashable.com/2016/06/08/indian-student-periodic-table-global-issues/#QqB4qx5ibGqw
Ss produced videos as our final exam review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkjgY_Y3TBk
Hard truths to save #HigherEd: *1 Size Doesn't Fit All *Better Aligned Outcomes *Lifelong Learning a Must
http://qz.com/703492/three-hard-truths-that-will-save-higher-education/
14 Video Games That Tackle Important Social Issues
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/technology/14-games-tackle-important-social-issues/
Managing In-Class Learning Experiences in Flipped Classrooms
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/managing-class-learning-experiences-flipped-classrooms/
5 ways to un-suck #HigherEd standardized assessments
http://www.ecampusnews.com/featured/featured-on-ecampus-news/highered-standardized-assessments/
Beats, Rhymes, & Bunsen Burners: Using Hip Hop as Teaching Tool
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/beats-rhymes-bunsen-burners-using-hip-hop-teaching-tool-n581646
Making science cool for our kids through Active Learning
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11654885
TED Talks Unveils Reorganized Site – And It’s A Lot Better!
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2016/06/08/ted-talks-unveils-reorganized-site-and-its-a-lot-better/
Student Commentary on #FlippedLearning (helped “her succeed even in the hardest of classes”)
http://www.wfdd.org/story/commentary-learning-flipped-classroom
