How Students Benefit From Using Social Media
A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. However, social media offers plenty...
View ArticleWhy Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?
Noah Muthler took his first state standardized test in third grade at the Spring Cove Elementary School in Roaring Spring, Pa. It was a miserable experience, said his mother, Kathleen Muthler. He was a...
View ArticleTexting Isn’t Writing, It’s Fingered Speech
All the handwringing by 7th-grade English teachers and parents over the tens of millions of grammatically challenged texts sent every day misses the point of what texting is, says John McWhorter, a...
View ArticleMaking Search Engines Work for Education Resources by John K. Waters
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative has a complicated name but a simple purpose: to make web searches more useful for students and teachers. Try this for information overload: Open your favorite...
View ArticleMetaMetrics®
MetaMetrics® is focused on improving education for learners of all ages. We develop scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies that link assessment results with...
View ArticleASE The Association for Science Education
The Association for Science Education is a dynamic community of teachers, technicians, and other professionals supporting science education and is the largest subject association in the UK. The ASE is...
View Article5 Ways to Add Interactive Elements to Your Videos by Richard Byrne
Over the last few days I’ve featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos. In the last year I’ve reviewed a few other services and methods for doing the same thing....
View ArticleThe Skills Both Online Students And Teachers Must Have
Decades after the Sloan Consortium funded the first large-scale online learning programs in the U.S., online learning has finally hit its stride. According to the 2012 Survey of Online Learning...
View Article30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028
Technology is changing at a rapid pace, so much so that it’s challenging to grasp. While there is little uniformity in technology, there are some trends worth noting that have spurred tangent...
View ArticleÖzel Eğitim Öğrencilerine Yönelik Teknoloji ile Zenginleştirilmiş Öğrenme...
Türkiye’de zihinsel engelli çocukların özel eğitim hizmetlerinden yararlanma oranları son yıllarda artmasına rağmen, bu gruba yönelik etkili eğitim hizmetlerinin sunulması ve yenilikçi öğretim...
View Article50 Education Technology Tools You Can Start Using Today
Finding the best education technology tools is a time-consuming task. It may even be viewed as a chore (for some). Typically, one tracks down a handful of useful apps or web tools and puts them through...
View ArticleHow Technology Is Helping Students With Developmental Disabilities
Having now worked with various agencies associated with the education of students that are developmentally delayed, I have observed what I believe is a major curriculum flaw. Technology skills are not...
View ArticleTwitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom
If you are an Educator looking to use Twitter in the classroom you might have noticed most tweets include a #Hashtag. The use of the # sign with a word attached to it makes up one. Hashtags trace...
View Article100+ Google Tricks for Teachers by Amber Johnson
It’s Google’s world, we’re just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all...
View Article8 Great iPad Apps for Creating Stop Motion Videos by Med Kharbach
A couple of days ago Educational Technology and Mobile Learning published a post featuring two awesome web tools for teachers to create stop motion videos and following this article I received some...
View ArticleWhy tablets are a game changer in education By Liz Logan
When kindergartners are starting school already adept with touch screens, you know the world has fundamentally changed. Mobile devices are everywhere: Young people are using the tablets in droves, and...
View Article15 Presentation Tools for Teachers
Chris Beyerle, a math and engineering teacher from South Carolina, has put together a no-nonsense collection of software for creating digital presentations. You’ll find these staples in many other...
View ArticleTeaching Students Better Online Research Skills
Sara Shaw, an elementary school teacher in Avon, Mass., realized she needed to teach online research skills several years ago when her students kept turning in projects riddled with misinformation. The...
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