User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2017

Toy take apart and hacking is a high engagement activity that works for kids of all ages, including adults who haven’t lost their sense of kid, and both genders. I have done it multiple times during my summer maker camp for elementary level kids, my gifted students, and at conferences as part of teacher professional development. Here is a description of this activity from the tinkering studio at the Exploratorium: Do you ever wonder what’s inside your toys?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 8, 2017

George Couros recently wrote about an article in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Ed. Magazine titled Bored Out of Their Minds. He included a quote but I would have picked a different one: But the biggest shift we need,” Rose believes, is much more elemental. “We need to get away from thinking that the opposite of ‘bored’ is ‘entertained.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 8, 2017

April 8, 2017 ”Golden River" is a free interactive digital book that shows how biology can solve the great challenges of the planet (translated to English, Spanish, and Portuguese). You can learn.read more.

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My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 8, 2017

There is something really exciting about the idea of wearable technology. When I started learning about microcomputers like Arduino and Raspberry PI, I was certainly excited about the idea of having a computer with me all the time, integrated into my clothing. This is where the shiny attractive novel thing often outshines the purpose I […]. The post Hack Your Baseball Hat!

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Personalized Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 8, 2017

April 8, 2017 Here is an excellent resource from ReadWriteThink to help students with their writing. Editing Checklist for Self and Peer Editing is a tool that allows your students to edit.read more.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 8, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! What’s hot this week? Innovative school models. Using media to increase family engagement. Teen brains - it's not what you think. Back at the top is an article I wrote about innovative school models that influence my thinking.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 8, 2017

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … A.J. Juliani explains why. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Learning With Lucie

APRIL 8, 2017

Recently I asked my graduate students to share their experience with digital portfolios. I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. My love for blogging tools as a digital platform started back in 1999 when my students started exploring digital tools to keep track of their learning using tools li

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 8, 2017

April 8, 2017 When it comes to presentations, no matter what industry you’re in, creating that first impression and providing a presentation that will win over your audience comes with its pressures.read more.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2017

The rapid growth of accelerated learning programs providing training to aspiring high-tech professionals—the best known being the “coding academies” or “bootcamps”—have recently been the subject of both optimism and skepticism. The attraction of these alternative learning providers is straightforward: in a relatively short period (months, not years) an individual can gain marketable skills.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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