Education Superhighway

AUGUST 9, 2018

Equitable digital access is the foundation for ensuring that teachers can personalize learning and provide students with the educational opportunities they need to be prepared for college and a career. Tell us about your experience as an educator in New York. Has technology always been available to you and your students?

Laptops 58

Laptops Social Media Comparison Google 58

Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Some would say formal distance education was established much earlier in the Americas. Arguably, the concept of distance education via correspondence may have its roots in earlier attempts at remote instruction when the Apostle Paul sent out letters (or epistles) via courier to the early Christian church from his prison cell in Rome.

Learning 57

Learning Technology Support Course MOOC 57

Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

This past January I wrote "10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have" and I have decided to modify it for the "10 Tech Skills Every Educator Should Have". Overall, educators need to understand some basics about technology and that it is not a be-all-end-all solution to everything in a classroom. Here''s my list.

Technology 274

Technology Social Media Education Software 274

The Principal of Change

JUNE 1, 2021

This is not only true in our lives for things like social media where it is easy to get into comparison with the “highlight reels” of others, but this is also true for things such as award ceremonies in schools which I have written about before. . and it can actually lead me to be demotivated.

Learning 89

Learning Education Exercises Comparison 89

The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This is not only true in our lives for things like social media where it is easy to get into comparison with the “highlight reels” of others, but this is also true for things such as award ceremonies in schools which I have written about before. . and it can lead me to be demotivated. But do you do it for yourself?

Learning 66

Learning Education Exercises Comparison 66

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Sylvia has been a featured speaker at national education technology conferences in areas ranging from the use of the Internet in schools, Web 2.0

Training 34

Training STEM Digital Citizenship Comparison 34

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Social media caption: The latest trend in assessment tools and gimmicks is the adaptive, “smart” test and the use of individualized learning plans to improve test scores. But what these tests and the resulting learning plans do, is work off a deficit model that only serves to influence the outcome of the test itself.

Assessment 52

Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. The ability to choose our collaborators is a key freedom hallmarking social learning.

Social Media 28

Social Media Learning Comparison Personal Learning Network 28

MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. The ability to choose our collaborators is a key freedom hallmarking social learning.

Social Media 28

Social Media Learning Digital Citizenship Comparison 28