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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

Edsurge

In 2017, Monsignor Paul Tighe may have been the only priest amidst a sea of techies at South by Southwest (SXSW), where he spoke about his past experience serving as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for the Catholic Church. Think “social media director” for the Catholic Church.) I was lucky.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with 'e's

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. During this time I also worked closely with several leading NHS surgeons and physicians as they developed new techniques and explored new technologies.

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

Securly

The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires that schools “block Internet access to pictures that are (a) obscene (b) child pornography or (c) harmful to minors.” CIPA also requires schools to monitor student online activity and provide training for responsible technology use. Another, that it is a breach of student privacy.

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How Schools Can Respond To The Age Of Information

TeachThought - Learn better.

Now it’s moving, from a singular there, to a plural everywhere –very much a new age of information and information access. The response to this access has been slow–and even when swift, it has rarely been compelling or long-lasting. And it can be accessed not simply from computers, but phones and gaming devices.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

.” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. That’s good. We shall see. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin). Valenza, J.K. 2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. TechLearning.

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