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 … share your story about who inspired you to become an educator and you could win $2,000!, tips for gamifying a course, a closer look at the growing volume of flipped learning research, how IoT is finding its way into our schools, great video content for chemistry class, can IBM’s Watson serve as an AI-based TA for MOOCs (acronym soup anyone?), exploring the emergence of virtual labs in higher education, a slew of app-based lessons, a huge collection of free etexts for HS and HE, and much more!
Who Inspired You to Become an Educator? Share your story, you could win $2000!
http://www.insp2ed.org/
12 Tips for Gamifying a Course
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/06/01/12-tips-for-gamifying-a-course.aspx
New at CO9s: How much research has been done on flipped learning?
http://rtalbert.org/blog/2016/how-much-research
University Ss Launch Rocket w/ Completely 3d-Printed Engine
http://www.popsci.com/university-students-launch-rocket-with-3d-printed-engine
Chromebooks are most popular K-12 device, w/ > 50% of market
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-05-19-welcome-to-my-house-android-apps-are-coming-to-chromebooks
Brilliant #Chemistry Video Lessons from @tylerdewitt (#FlipCon2016 Keynote)!
https://www.youtube.com/user/tdewitt451
A University’s Success w/ #FlippedLearning Began by Phasing Out Lectures
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/07/universitys-success-flipped-learning-began-phasing-out-lectures
The Virtual Laboratory Advantage in #HigherEd
http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/virtual-lab-advantage
15 Tools for Teaching History With Technology - A Handout
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/06/15-tools-for-teaching-history-with.html
Technology in Higher Education: Guiding Aspiring Leaders
http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/5/technology-in-higher-education-guiding-aspiring-leaders
The Internet of Things is coming to your school
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/06/01/the-internet-of-things-is-coming-to-your-school/
Why Education Stakeholders Must Work Together on Critical Components of Digital Transformation
http://www.slideshare.net/SamsungBusinessUSA/why-education-stakeholders-must-work-together-on-the-critical-components-of-digital-transformation-62471677
FLIP your class using games; a fun way to engage students
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/playing-games-can-yield-serious-learning/
Dozens of “App Lessons” covering many subjects!
http://appedreview.com/app-lessons/
Survey: Teachers are using twice as much #gaming & video in #K12
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/05/06/survey-teachers-now-use-twice-as-much-gaming-and-video-in-the-classroom/
New trend sees #highered bootcamps go “2.0”
http://www.ecampusnews.com/curriculum/data-science-bootcamps/
Google’s Chromebooks outsold Apple’s Macs in the U.S. for the first time
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/20/technology/chromebook-macbook/index.html
Four Fun Tools to Merge the Digital and Physical in Your Maker Classroom
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-05-30-four-tools-to-merge-the-digital-and-physical-in-your-maker-classroom
A Large Collection of Free eTextbooks for High School & College Students
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/05/a-large-collection-of-free-etextbooks.html
“Technological innovation is often simply an innovation in how we think about technology”
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/29/technological-innovation-is-often-simply-an-innovation-in-how-we-think-about-technology/
The 2016 Look At The Future Of Online Learning
http://www.downes.ca/post/65113
The sweep of the Internet of Things, garbage cans and all
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/27/the-sweep-of-the-internet-of-things-garbage-cans-and-all/
Want to teach innovative thinking? Here’s how:
https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=651
Here’s how artificial intelligence could solve a big problem in education
http://www.techinsider.io/how-watson-ai-can-transform-education-2016-5
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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