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The Daily Round Up - May 23rd, 2013

5/23/2013

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It's almost Friday!  And today's Round Up begins with a new post from Lisa Nielsen on "4 Ways to Provoke Change in Our Education System."  The article  discusses the best ways to help inspire diversity, curiosity and creativity within the classroom and she gives great examples, ideas, and resources that teachers can get started with immediately.


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Over at User Generated Education, Dr. Jackie Gleason has an excellent new post on "The Other 21st Century Skills."  She opens with a quick overview of what some may call "traditional 21st century skills" and then outlines the other attributes that she believes would "best serve learners in this era."  It's a great read!


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EdCetera has a new post describing "How Hardware is Hurting the E-Textbook Industry."   Their main argument is that the cost of the hardware required to use e-books, and the readability of the digital content are the two major factors hurting the E-Textbook industry.  However, they end the article by discussing how schools are creatively working to deal with the issue of cost.


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Free Technology for Teachers starts off with "5 Good Resources for Teaching & Learning About Shakespeare."  The post discusses some excellent Shakespeare tech resources like Shakespeare Animated, Crash Course videos on English Lit, Insults by Shakespeare, LiveBinders Resources, and Shakespeare's original pronunciation guides.  

Next, Free Tech covers "5 Great Activities from Read Write Think."  If you're not familiar with Read Write Think, they offer some of the best free elementary language arts lessons around.  This post covers a few of their tools, and if you teach elementary LA, it's definitely worth the read.

And Free Tech closes with a post reviewing "Harvest of History: Helping Students Understand Farms."  The program is designed to teach elementary students about farms and help show them where their food comes from.  


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Edudemic begins with a post covering "How To Properly Integrate Education Technology."  I think we've all seen examples of  schools buying new technology, giving it out to teachers and students, and then expecting miraculous results.  However successful tech integration requires much more work, and this article describes the steps to make it happen.

Edudemic also has a nice post on how to "Integrate iPads Into Blooms' Digital Taxonomy With This 'Pedagogy Wheel'"  The Pedagogy Wheel was created by Allan Carrington and shows you the best apps for each level of Blooms' Taxonomy.  I've embedded it here for your viewing pleasure (click for full size)

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We've been talking a lot lately about game-based learning and to follow up on that, the Ed Tech Review has a new post entitled, "Reasons for Slow Adoption of Gamification in Education."  The article outlines what they believe to be the main reason that game-based learning is taking its sweet time making inroads into the classroom.  


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And on a related note, Getting Smart has a new post about an "Australian Study Points to Benefits of Games-Based Math."  the article reviews the implementation of games fromMangaHigh within middle school classrooms in Australia.  The findings from the study are pretty impressive, specifically that 100% of the teachers involved reported that the using the games improved student learning outcomes.

Getting Smart closes with a post on "Buidling STEM Skills by Learning Game Design."  The article talks about using Game Design Tool Kit to teach students the basics of programming and design while they create games.  I'd also recommend checking out GameSalad, it's similar to scratch but more geared towards game/app design and it's also a great free resource to teach students programming.


The Lightning Round...

  • Learn Dash has a new infographic on the latest MOOC trends.
  • Educational Technology discusses 8 Digital Ways to Wrap Up the School Year
  • Ed Tech also covers How to Create a Google+ Hangout for Students and Flipped Classrooms
  • Edudemic reviews 36 Entertaining Apsp that are Actually Educational
  • Edudemic also has a great infographic on What Parents Want From Classroom Technoloogy
  • Plus, Edudemic has a video collection of Educational Uses for Google Glass

And we'll end today's Round Up with an excellent new infographic on the STEM Skills Gap. 
STEM Skills Gap
Courtesy of: Edudemic
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