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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with 'e's

I was also responsible for implementing computer based education for nurses and midwives in 1984, and experimented with satellite video teleconferencing for nurse training in 1989. He had read some of my previous papers, and was interested in seeing if we could take our ideas forward in the emerging area of social media and medical education.

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The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy

Edsurge

Today on the podcast we’re talking about news literacy, and the challenge of teaching students to navigate the relentless flow of information they get through social media and websites and YouTube and. Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off.

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Now a Google Certified Educator

EdTechTeam

I returned to the Google for Education online training center and got ready to learn whatever they had to teach. For instance, I’ve made multiple Google Sites , but the training helped me to see how the creation process of a Math Website can be vastly improved by making it a collaborative student effort.

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. For many reasons including training and access to resources and time, not every librarian is yet engaged in the perhaps daunting task of building a robust digital presence.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. 2006) Introducing Web 2.0: geotagging).

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

Students also need support and guidance about online behavior, including what can or should not be shared via social media. He was elected Idaho State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2006 and served two terms. Preparing for an Uncertain Future. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by The ProEthica® Program.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). It is not difficult to see that such sharing of knowledge can be easily achieved through social media and the use of personal digital technologies. Delfino, M.,

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