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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. For more information, please refer to the IB website. What does the PYP say about technology? How does technology support inquiry?

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Connecting Parents to Student’s Digital Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike: We’ve started a weekly email to about 400 parents so far, where we’re covering topics like digital citizenship, security, filtering, social media — everything that really relates to how students should use technology today. And what I’m trying to avoid is not being so centric around technology in terms of tools.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

“It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. EDTECH: What are the education trends that have led to the modern learning environment?

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – September 2021

Edthena

Many school systems issue weekly newsletters to keep the school community up-to-date on safety policies and conditions, as well as provide updates on social media feeds and emails. These efforts should also be consistent schoolwide, advised a June paper from the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

technologies support connected and collaborative pedagogies. Holistic approaches with a focus on multimodal design extends learning into online spaces for improved engagement, provision for response choices (text, audio, video), online publishing and media creation while fostering new pedagogical approaches. tools is crucial.

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Are we more intelligent?

Learning with 'e's

She suggests that it is an error for universities to invest more in technology than in teacher development, and in so doing, opens a debate on the future of education in the digital age. So the future of technology supported learning is uncertain and contested. References Brabazon, T. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.