All Blog Posts Tagged 'tech' (24)

Taking notes is a surefire, practical way to acquire and retain information during the learning process. It’s also an incredible mental workout, which teaches us the valuable lessons of being smart and organized. Still, the issue is muddled by a dispute between propagators of traditional and digital note-taking. Much has changed in the information age, and both sides have put forward their arguments, so which medium is superior and brings better results?…

This year has been the year of MOOCs for me, and it seems the rest of the world. I started with DNLE at Stanford, the first MOOC I actually finished. (My first MOOC was edfutures with Dave Cormier in 2010 but I kind of petered out after 6 weeks)

In September I started working with Alec Couros and his many co-conspirator on #…

The Challenge of Modeling 21st Century Learning

A Complimentary White Paper from Atomic Learning



Today's students are different. Today's world is different. The changes suggest a very different role for schools and teachers.

Based on findings by Atomic Learning's partner, SEG Measurement, this free resource discusses the importance of professional…

ATTENTION COLLISION REPAIR STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS

Schools and colleges are almost over for this semester. To start the new semester off right, 3M and Collision…

This is a two-fer, for those who are upgrading from Office 2003 to 2007. Here are the sites that will show you where all your favorite commands have gone in that pesky, confusing ribbon at the top of the

screen.…

Earlier this evening I wrote an incredibly long post in which I described in detail the administrator position that is expected to be advertised for very soon. I’m going to paraphrase that post those of

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The Ypulse 2009 Totally Wired Teacher Award (sponsored by Dell) will honor a trailblazing teacher who has successfully pioneered the innovative and educational use of technology, mobile technology, social media (blogs, wikis, social networking, photo/video sharing) in the classroom.

The award is inspired by Ypulse founder Anastasia Goodstein’s book, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online, and the challenges she observed around integrating…

UK educational software company RM has released a demo of their game Finguistics. What makes this so interesting is that this educational game is being designed to work on the Microsoft Surface platform.

As you can see in the video, these kids are…