Welcome back to your regularly scheduled Roundup! I've made it back to South America and our school year starts on Monday... yikes! Before getting this thing started, I wanted to give two big "Thank Yous!" First, to the Techlandia Podcast and Alison Anderson for the shout-out on Saturday night's episode. If you haven't watched it yet, they cover some great tech tools and ideas (in their usual hilarious & rambly fashion). Second, GettingSmart just posted their list of 50 Great Blogs & Blasts and the Roundup made the cut! Woo! So, thank you both very much, and to everyone reading the Roundup, I can't thank you enough for your support, feedback, ideas, shares, and encouragement!
First up today, the always-awesome Dr. Jackie Gerstein and her blog User Generated Education. Today, Dr. Gerstein continues her series on "The Other 21st Century Skills" with a post on Empathy and Global Stewardship. In the post, she defines empathy and global stewardship and discusses what those skills look like in students and in the classroom. As usual, it's a wonderful read.
Jamie Forshey at EduTech for Teachers continues to show her love for Thinglink with her monthly special, "The Geeky Girl's Greatest Hits: Volume VII." In the article she covers her favorite posts, tools and apps from the month including Jigsaw Planet (the free web-app to create online jigsaw puzzles) and Smoovie (an online tool that students can use to create stop motion animations). Be sure to check out the post for more excellent resources.
I'm not proud to admit this, but it took me a long time to get on board with Twitter (like only 4 months ago long). I never really saw the use of it until I actually signed up and started exploring. Now that I have signed up, I would never go back. It can be an absolutely amazing educational resource and every single teacher should try it out. To that end, Edudemic shares, "How Teachers Can Stop Being Scared of Twitter."
And Edudemic also shares a new infographic from Knowledge Works on the 12 Changes Coming to the Future of Learning. It's definitely worth a look and you can click the image to enlarge it.
And Edudemic also shares a new infographic from Knowledge Works on the 12 Changes Coming to the Future of Learning. It's definitely worth a look and you can click the image to enlarge it.
Free Tech for Teachers has five new resources to share:
Kelly Tenkely at iLearn Technology has a new review of the "Kids Picture Dictionary App." It's the perfect dictionary app for young students and it includes a self record feature that lets kids record their own sentence examples. It's an excellent tool for preschoolers and ESL students and you can check out the post for more tips and the full review!
The Ed Tech Review has a new post covering the "Best Technological Ways to Increase Engagement in the Classroom." One of the major benefits of classroom technology is that it can increase student engagement like few other tools can. The ETR's new article discusses some great specific examples on tools and ideas for utilizing all the new technology options that are available to schools.
Teach Thought has a great post over a new graphic they made about the "7 Most Powerful Idea Shifts in Learning Today." The post (and graphic) discuss how teaching and learning (and schools in general) are making the shift into the 21st century. The post covers gamification, blended-learning, self-directed learning, and all the usual suspects. It's a good read and you can click on the image below for the full size.
We've talked about Minecraft a lot here at the Roundup, and I'm a big fan of its educational possibility. If you're not familiar with Minecraft (or you're still not sure it can be used for educational purposes) Wes Fryer at The Speed of Creativity has an outstanding student example in his new post 4th Grade Virtual Tour of a California Mission. The video example comes courtesy of Holly Clark and it is wonderful!
Ed Reach has four new podcasts to check out:
And, for our grand finale, Pearson shares their vision of the future of education with a collection of videos entitled, "School for Thought." The collection includes an introduction, an overview of the research that went into the videos, and three different "student stories" that represent the direction Pearson believes education is heading. Here's Rey's story:
The Lightning Round...
- Edudemic shares How to Use Your iPad in Music Class
- They also cover 5 Educational Websites to Keep Kids Learning
- And Edudemic has a new infographic on The Biggest Online Learning Trends of the Year
- Educational Technology discusses 9 Great Back to School Resources for Teachers
- Teach Thought gives us 21 Common Core-Aligned Math Apps
- Mind/Shift talks about 10 Ways to Boost Your Game for Back-to School
- Lisa Nielsen has 8 Easy Tips for Starting a Personal Education Blog
- And of course, don't forget to check out GettingSmart's list of 50 Great Blogs & Blasts
That's it for the Roundup today and again, thank you for reading! Based on the success of yesterday's 8 Apps To Try This Fall post, I'll try to start writing more articles like that to include in the Roundup as well! See you tomorrow!
-Mike
-Mike
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