Instructional Technology and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 04-29-17

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 in the wrap … explore the relationship between Bloom's Mastery Learning strategy and the flipped classroom. How about 50 reasons (yup, 50) for using smartphones in the classroom? Examine the state of blogging in education in 2017. Check out what happens in a social media minute these days. What's up at inspiredlearning.com? Enjoy these resources and more!

How Video Games Are Changing Education
http://thegizmolife.com/video-gaming-and-education/

History’s Most Successful Theory of Teaching is Reborn for #FlippedLearning
https://blog.acadly.com/historys-most-successful-theory-of-teaching-is-reborn-for-flipped-learning-fdc60691a2c7

50 Reasons It’s Time For Smartphones In Every Classroom
http://www.teachthought.com/terry-heick/50-reasons-smartphones-belong-classroom/

Technology-based curricula help middle, high school students succeed post graduation
http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/technology-based-curricula-help-middle-high-school-students-succeed-post-graduation/Content?oid=5301396

#STEAM can teach #SkillsForToday. Share how your #school teaches #collaboration with #STEAM at
http://www.collaborationNation.io

Brain boot camp: New technology aims to literally stimulate the brain to learn
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uow-bbc042617.php

Nice list of “Top Tech Gadgets According to Bloggers”
https://www.techisignals.com/top-tech-gadgets/

Our biggest report yet: State of the Commons 2016
https://medium.com/@creativecommons/our-biggest-report-yet-state-of-the-commons-2016-bab569aab062

Building Bridges Across the Ed-Tech Field
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/building-bridges-across-the-ed-tech-field_us_58fe036fe4b086ce5898132f

The Current State Of Educational Blogging, from @edublogs
https://www.theedublogger.com/2017/04/11/educational-blogging-2016/

Kids are doing ‘real science’ in this school with technology, nature
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/education/article146403884.html

Grill That Edtech Company With These 6 Questions Before Buying Anything
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-23-grill-that-edtech-company-with-these-6-questions-before-buying-anything

Typed “inspired teaching” in Google just to see what would come up. Nice!
http://inspiredteacher.com/

Nearpod Notches $21M in Series B Round to Expand Digital, Virtual Learning Experiences
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03-01-nearpod-notches-21m-in-series-b-round-to-expand-digital-virtual-learning-experiences