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For those interested, my research team and I here at Indiana University are researching K-12 teacher global education practices. More specifically, we are interested in learning about how primary and secondary teachers are using technology in their instruction to address global and multicultural education. Additionally, we want to learn more about their global education experiences and how such experiences have shaped their teaching practices. Professional development related to global educational practices with technology is of particular interest. We have designed a survey geared for those involved in global education practices that takes approximately 15 minutes to complete (Here is the survey link). If you have the time and the inclination, I'd really appreciate your support in getting as many teachers to take this survey as possible! Thanks so much for any help you might lend. Please let me know if you have any questions. Have a wonderful weekend! Mike Happy New Year from the Roundup! We'll be back to our regular posting shortly (with a few changes to ring in the new year). For now, I hope everyone's semester and year is off to a great start! See you soon!
-Mike I'm currently working on a short publication and I could use the help of any K-12 teachers who use e-portfolios in their classroom. Time commitment would be minimal, and you would be listed as one of the authors as well! I would send you some questions, you would answer them, or write up a few paragraphs about how you're using the portfolios, and that's it!
I'm hoping to find teachers outside of English and Computer Science, and teachers who are using tools other than Wix or Google Classroom, since I've already got those covered. If you're interested, send me an email and I can tell you more about the project! In the meantime, have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone! And again, my apologies that the Roundup has been slower this semester, I've been focusing more on the reviews, so be sure to check those out, we've got a lot of new ones up! -Mike Welcome back to the Roundup! I hope everyone is having a good weekend! Today we'll begin over at ideas.ted.com (thanks to Mind/Shift for also sharing this) with an excellent post entitled,"There's No App for Good Teaching" by Laura Moorhead. The post outlines "8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom" and it is a wonderful and insightful read. Next, John Hardison at Getting Smart has an excellent post on Project-Based learning, "Diving Into Project-Based Learning? Head These 7 Warnings." He likens the experience of implementing PBL to skydiving, and includes lots of great resources, ideas, guides, video-cases, and suggestions for getting start with or improving your PBL practices. If you've been using iPads in your classroom, you may have found yourself completely overwhelmed by the availability of resources and apps. Educational Tech & Mobile Learning has organized Apple's most useful links on using iPads in the classroom to help you find some great new resources and ideas that you can put into practice. If you're thinking of going completely paperless in the classroom, or at least taking steps in that direction, you might be interested in Edudemic's new post, "The Ultimate Guide to the Paperless Classroom." They provide an awesome list of resources, suggestions, websites, and examples to help you get started. As always, Free Tech for Teachers shares some wonderful new classroom resources: Finally, EdTech Magazine has a new article on Google's new classroom management application, "Changes to Google Classroom Give Teachers More Control." The article outlines the changes that have been made to the app, based on teacher feedback. If you haven't checked out the app yet, you can explore it here And that's it for the Roundup this week! Thanks for reading, and if you missed the recent Bammy Awards for educators, you can find out more about who won here on their blog, or by checking out their video collection. For now, we'll end with an enjoyable infographic fromTutoring Expert on "How The Greatest Minds in Mathematics Changed the World." Have a great weekend! Courtesy of: Tutoring Expert And, we're back! My apologies for the delay of Weekly Roundups lately! It's been a challenge balancing a new job with a new doctorate program and running the website, but I've got it sorted out now and the Roundups should be back to their typical weekend postings! Hopefully. To start with, remember that crazy robot Watson who beat everyone at Jeopardy? Well, s/he's back and ready to start teaching teachers! Read more over at EdTech Magazine! Next up, the staff at Edudemic has a nice"Guide to Creating Tech-Friendly Classroom Management Strategies." With more and more technology creeping into today's classrooms, management of behavior is an incredibly important issue. Find out what edudemic suggests in their four-part guide. As always, Free Technology for Teachers has an excellent collection of new resources for class. Here are a few: Over at Getting Smart you'll be able to find a summary of the new report from the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL). The article, entitled "iNACOL Report: Online Learning Can Close The Opportunity Gap," discusses how online learning allows for greater learning opportunities in schools and districts where particular courses and electives are unavailable. For those of you who are fans of the Maker Movement like myself, Dr. Jackie Gerstein at User Generated Education has an excellent post on "The Mindset of the Maker Educator." The article includes several graphics which outline a framework for maker education in the classroom and she also includes a presentation (below) on Maker Education. Up next, Katrina Schwartz at Mind/Shift has a great post on "How Virtual Reality Meets Real Life Learning with Mobile Games." Schwartz discusses how "situated games" which require students to interact with the real world, can be both motivating and educational. It's an excellent article with tons of examples and definitely worth reading. Over at Mighty Skins (yes, the iphone/ipad/computer case makers), it turns out they have some great EdTech blogs as well. In their new post, "The Dawn of the Digital Classroom" the team discusses the emergence of digital learning. But, more importantly, they share an excellent infographic on the prevelence of digital learning in education today. At Magoosh, Peter Poer has a new post which discusses how "Online Learning Can Work for Everyone." Throughout the post, Poer outlines the benefits of blended learning, and the challenges to overcome when implementing blended learning in the classroom. He concludes by discussing how students and teachers can overcome their fears of online learning. Finally, we've got a very special offer from Bettermarks for readers of the Roundup! Anyone interested in a free access account just needs to click here and apply. But wait, what is Bettermarks? Bettermarks is an online learning service that offers adaptive math books, aligned with the common core standards, which adjust to your student's learning needs. So definitely check them out and give it a free try! That's it for the Roundup this week! Thanks for reading, and again, my apologies for the recent delay! I hope everyone has an excellent weekend and I'll see you next time!
With options for classroom technology growing every day, it has become an increasingly difficult challenge to find the best resource for your students’ learning needs. Do you go with tablets? What about a “bring your own device” (BYOD) policy? Or maybe a laptop cart to share between classrooms? While all these different resources have their advantages and disadvantages, one relative new-comer to the field is Google’s Chromebook, and it offers some serious potential at an incredibly reasonable price. [Continue Reading] Welcome back to the Roundup! We've got a short one this week, so let's jump right in! Up first, Holly Korbey at Mind/Shift explores an issue that's been on my own mind a lot lately,"Can Students 'Go Deep' With Digital Reading?" In the post, Korbey does an excellent job discussing the issue, incorporating recent research, and addressing both the advantages and disadvantages of digital reading. Up next, John Hardison at Getting Smart has prepared an absolutely awesome collection collection of tools and resources in "A Gold Mine of #EdTech Resources: Part II." Hardison covers Website Creation, Learning Management Systems, Apps, Blogging Platforms, and so much more. There are tons of great tools here that are absolutely worth checking out. And, if you're interested in part I of the series, you can find it here. And, of course, some great new resources from FT4T: Finally (I told you it was a short one!) we head over to the Ed Tech Review for a nice collection of resources from Prasanna Bharti entitled, "Flip Your Classroom with These Great Online Tools." Bharti covers EdPuzzle, eduCanon, Blubbr, VideoNotes, and Teachem, all of which are good tools and worth exploring. The Lightning Round...
And that does it for this week! But before I go, I want to recommend checking out a new app that was designed by a student fresh out of high school! It's calledSharedAgenda and it's basically a way for students and teachers to make the school agenda a social experience. It's a great app and it's free, so check it out! Thanks for reading and we'll end with a new infographic from Presence Learning which looks at some of the benefits of online therapy. See you next time! Courtesy of: Presence Learning Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and a good start to the school year! This week we'll begin at Getting Smart with a new post from Jim Schultz on "Three Ways Blended Learning Makes Teachers More Efficient." Schultz opens with a basic definition of blended learning (in case you're unfamiliar) and then jumps into his reasons on why it makes for more effective classes. Next up, Nicole Blake Johnson at EdTech Magazine has a new post which outlines the Internet Keep Safe Coalition's"New Digital Literacy Program to Educate K-12 Students on Internet Safety." The post also discusses how the curriculum offers free lessons that align with Common Core Standards. If you're a computer literacy teacher, or looking for a good way to inform students about internet safety, this is a good place to start. A few of the great new resources from Free Tech for Teachers: Let's take it back to blended learning for a moment with a solid post from Reannah Sartoris at Edudemic. Sartoris' new post, "Top 5 Tips for a Blended Learning Classroom" offers some simple, easy-to-follow tips for teachers just beginning in a blended environment. Over at Inside Higher Ed, the team has just released a new 30-page booklet entitled "Online Education: More than MOOCs." For those not familiar, a MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course, and has become one of the standards for online education. If you're interested in online education, either K-12 or higher-ed, I definitely recommend reading thefree book. Here are a few of the new podcasts from the EdReach network And finally, for those of us who love virtual reality, and the potential it has for the K-12 learning environment, Benjamin Herold at Education Week has an excellent new article entitled, "Oculus Rift Fueling New Vision for Virtual Reality in K-12." If you haven't heard of the Oculus Rift, it's pretty awesome, and offers some exciting possibilities for K-12 The Lightning Round...
That's it for this week! Thanks for stopping by and we'll have some new reviews up soon for you as well. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and we'll close with a new interactive infographic from Open Colleges on the Uses of Google Glass in Education. See you next time! Hello and welcome to the Roundup! After taking two months off to move back to the states from Colombia, and then to move again to Bloomington, I'm ready to get the site running again! For those who are curious, I'll be starting a Ph.D. program at IU in instructional technology. As for the site, not much will change, except I'm going to start adding a monthly "Research Roundup" for those interested in the current research and studies that are underway in the field. Otherwise, it's good to be back and thanks for reading! Let's begin! Today we'll start at EdTech magazine with an article by Matt Renwick, entitled "How Teachers Can Become Fluent in Classroom Technology." With a new school year beginning, it's the perfect time to give that new technology tool a try! In the post, Renwick talks about the benefit of starting small and trying to make a personal connection with the technology you're using in the classroom. Jordan Shapiro at Mind/Shift has a new post which shares "How to Choose a Learning Game." So maybe you've decided you would like to begin integrating learning games in your classroom, but you're not sure how to pick the right one. Shapiro asks several guiding questions to help teachers select and implement a learning game that will be beneficial for students. A few of the new posts from the excellent Free Tech for Teachers: If you're not familiar with Google Hangouts, it's a free video conferencing tool that be used to connect with others. It offers great classroom potential, and to that end, Jennifer Carey at Edudemic has a new post which outlines "4 Ways to Enhance Your Class with Google Hangouts." Over at Getting Smart, Jena Draper has a new article which asks "Is the Sharing Economy Education's Future?" Draper opens by discussing the increasing momentum of the sharing economy and goes on to discuss how this relates to education. Her main argument is that, "the sharing economy, when applied to education, has the potential to accelerate a highly advanced teaching and learning model." Sean Cavanagh at Education Week has an interesting new article which discusses how "Ed-Tech Vendors See Hurdles in the K-12 Marketplace." The post discusses the intricate nature of the K-12 environment and how it can be a slow and difficult process to get Ed-Tech tools out of the hands of creators and into the hands of students and teachers. Here are a few of the new podcasts from the EdReach network Finally, at ElectricBrains the site shares an excellent post on "The Top Resources for Teaching Digital Responsibility." They have a great collection of sites to check out as well as a short post on the huge importance of digital responsibility in the classroom. If you're using technology at all in the classroom, this is a great post to start thinking about digital responsibility and how to teach it. And that's all for today! Thanks again for stopping by and it's good to be back. Also, if you're a teacher who uses Edmodo (a great learning management system), you might want to check out this excellent collection of guides and resources from Educational Tech & Mobile Learning. In closing, here's an interview with Paul Andersen (of the excellent Bozeman Science) about creating online resources for students. Have a great weekend and see you next time! |
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