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The Daily Roundup - August 6th, 2013

8/6/2013

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Welcome back!  Today we begin at Hybrid Pedagogy with a new post on MOOCs (massive open online courses) in K-12 education, "MOOCifying K-12: Relationships, Collaboration, Risk-Taking."  The post follows Verena Roberts, an educator working to design hybrid online learning systems.  She writes about her experience in creating a system as well as the problems, challenges, feedback, and final reflections.


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If your school was lucky enough to get a set of iPads for this year, you'll probably want to check out this new article from Edudemic (after you beat Angry Birds, or course) "A Practical Guide For Teachers Who Just Got iPads."  The post opens with the most important tip (in my opinion) "Don't Start Collecting Apps!"  Find a few that you love and work with those!  Then slowly grow from there.  It's an excellent post with lots of advice.


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Blogger, speaker, and consultant, Annie Murphy Paul has a new post on her blog that asks "Can Data Predict the Future? And What Should We Do About It?"  Paul discusses the growing ethical dilemma of student data collection and analysis.  More and more, schools are collecting information (often without students and parents knowing) and using that information for all sorts of predictive purposes.  Check out Paul's excellent article for a more in-depth analysis of the issues at hand.


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Mind/Shift has a great article that I missed during the Roundup's break last week, "From Toy to Tool: How to Develop Smart Tablet Habits in Class."  The post raises an important issue: most students see iPads and tablets as toys or, at the very least, devices for entertainment.  How can teachers change that perception and get students to see tablets as a tool for learning? This post offers some great ideas on how to get started!


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Free Tech For Teachers has five new resources to check out:
  • 5 Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images
  • 3 Good Advanced Search Options for Students
  • What is Needed for 7 Billion People?
  • Class Dojo is Giving Away Free iPad Minis!
  • 3 Ways to Look at the World as a Village


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If you're like me, you're probably starting to write (or at least think about writing) some new lesson plans.  Emerging Ed Tech has a great post to help us out with that, "A Few Free Lesson Planning and Classroom Resources for Teachers."  The article discusses how tools like Planboard App and My Lesson Planner can help create lessons and even find new resources!


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Ed Reach has three new podcasts up to check out:
  • EduWin Weekly: Something to Write the World About
  • Marzano Weighs in on Teacher Evaluation
  • Would Curriculum Changes Improve the Dropout Rate?


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Finally, Monica Burns of Class Tech Tips has a guest post at Edutopia entitled, "The Simple Power of a Screenshot."  It always surprises me how many times teachers will attempt to teach something about computers or applications without ever once using a screenshot.  They're so simple and so useful!  To that end, Burns' article discusses the many, many practical uses for screenshots in education.  


The Lightning Round...

  • Edudemic shares a new infographic on Why Should You Try Game-Based Learning?
  • Educational Technology covers the 10 Most Used Smartphone Apps in 2013
  • Getting Smart has Fun New Apps for Learning from EdShelf
  • The Ed Tech Review discusses 7 Great EdTech Incubators Helping Startups to Succeed

And that's all for the Roundup today!  Thanks for reading!  We'll end with a new graphic from Busy Teacher (via Ed Tech Magazine) that I'm pretty sure every teacher will want to hang in their room and hand out to all of their crazy friends who think we only work 3/4ths of the year.  See you tomorrow!
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7/16/2022 01:46:55 am

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