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5 Great Software Functions!

WJU EdTech

Wieman and Perkins (2005) report research stated that interactive simulations in physics are frequently more effective than seeing actual demonstrations! There are tons of wonderful simulation apps available for iOS and Android devices! One of my favorites is the 3-D Cell and Simulation app. It’s amazing!

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10 Ways to Use Google Maps in the Classroom

The Thinking Stick

Here’s a map that I created for friends that came to visit while we lived in Shanghai, China from 2005 – 2008. Google Maps is downloadable on every mobile device I know of and My Maps is as well ( Android , iOS )! In fact I’ve been creating maps for different purposes since about 2007! Are you studying your community?

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Technology in the Classroom: The Complete Guide

ViewSonic Education

2005 – Learning Management System (LMS) takes off as a viable teaching tool. Rinse and repeat throughout the history of education. late 1700s – The slate provides students with a portable, personal writing surface. 1890s – The chalkboard appeared in classrooms, allowing larger class sizes. Device agnostic? Direct link?

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What Is The Best Handheld Microphone For iPad Recordings? #AskTheTechCoach

TeacherCast

Subscribe via RSS Subscribe on Android Follow @TeacherCast. I have talked several times about the equipment that I use in my studio and how I am currently using the Audio Technica 2005 USB mic for my broadcasting. This portable recording device is both Apple and Android compatible. Leave a VoiceMail.

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The Riddle Of Meaningful iPad Integration

TeachThought - Learn better.

Fast forward to 2012 and the Tabula Project was borne out of a simple premise: Tablet computers hold enormous potential as lower-cost, touch-friendly alternatives to desktop/laptops in schools, but they lack the local networking tools that we’d leveraged so effectively for instructional purposes back in 2005.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. He clearly missed the part where the elders in the film decide the Coke bottle is cursed.)

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