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New MY World 360° Playlist and Open Invitation

Digital Promise

View Aravani Art Project – Empowering Women and Trans-Women through Art above on Facebook, or on Vimeo ]. View Lack of View above on Facebook, or on Vimeo ]. “Moma’e jarã kõ jikuwaê’ã kõ” (“The Owners We Can’t See”). View 9pm above on Facebook, or on Vimeo ]. Educator/Mentor: Sairam Sagiraju.

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#Internet4schools: Make Your Voice Heard

A Principal's Reflections

Back in 2009 when we began to transform teaching and learning at New Milford High School we were extremely fortunate at the time to have wireless Internet access throughout the school. Access to the Internet allowed us and our students to harness and leverage thousands of free tools to support teaching and learning as described above.

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A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Create Your First Online Course

EdTech4Beginners

Learning in an online course is built in such a way that you plan a training program and combine several interaction formats to improve engagement – text, video, images, tests, gamification, open-ended questions, and other interactive elements. You can also use them to keep students motivated during the learning process.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms. Merritt solicited the support of its E-rate consultant, Julie Watson, who provided invaluable advice on how to fund an upgrade. The Path to a Successful Upgrade. The Impact.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

The CoolCatTeacher

You'll learn about these and more on a special extended episode of the podcast with Teresa Magpayo Castro and Ricardo Recinos. You'll learn to empathize with students who struggle with English as a second language as Teresa and Ricardo tell their own stories. Help every student become included in learning and become empowered.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. One argument goes that filtering prevents exploration and blocks students from using tools like Facebook for academic causes. Federal law doesn’t specifically require schools to block Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage.

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