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, there's an Augmented Reality Hackathon happening this week, specifically for teachers - stop by Metaverse and create your AR with this free and easy tool, then click the first link below to learn how to share your creativity! Robert Talbert wrote an excellent post about problematic assumptions that can drive decisions we make in the classroom. Consider all we can learn from tomorrow's eclipse (here in the US). The New Zealand government (EmergingEdTech enjoys good readership ‘down under' in both Australia and NZ) offers “Youth Digital Enterprise Awards”, aimed at helping young people become tomorrow’s digital entrepreneurs. Wrap up the wrap with a look at and bunch of expert predictions about how tech may change our lives in the coming decade.
Augmented Reality hackathon for Ts running 8/19 - 8/26, showing creative AR Ts have made!
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/08/an-augmented-reality-hackathon-for.html#.WZWME1GGOM8
Storified flipblogs twitter chat: great dialogue about CHANGES
https://storify.com/mrswan/flipblogs-chat-3-august-16-2017
Great piece by RobertTalbert: Laptop bans and the assumptions we make
https://medium.com/@roberttalbert/laptop-bans-and-the-assumptions-we-make-8089aae92942
Podcast: Choice & Control - The Structure Of Educational Revolutions
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/teachthought-podcast-ep-83-school-choice-control-structure-educational-revolutions/
Mystery Science Helps Teachers Dazzle Their Students With Interactive Science Classes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2017/08/17/mystery-science-helps-teachers-dazzle-their-students-with-interactive-science-classes/#17493375afe8
For Ed Tech to Be Successful, ‘It Has to Come From Teachers' http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2017/08/teacher_input_edtech.html
Start a Reading Revolution: Flip Your Class With Blogs
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/flip-ela-class-with-blogs-brian-sztabnik
Want a Better Future? Teach Evidence and Empathy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/want-a-better-future-teach-evidence-and-empathy_us_598d04aae4b0ed1f464c09bb
Learning A Ton Of New Science From 2 Minutes Of A Total Solar Eclipse
http://www.abc2news.com/newsy/learning-a-ton-of-new-science-from-2-minutes-of-a-total-solar-eclipse
Five more Brooklyn schools to teach young kids computer science
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/8/18/five-more-brooklyn-schools-teach-young-kids-computer-science
NZ opens “Youth Digital Enterprise Awards” scholarship competition
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1708/S00371/applications-to-open-for-youth-digital-scholarships.htm
Emerging Tech: 7 Top Futurists Make Some Surprising Predictions About Next Decade
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html
