Welcome back! I'll be out of town from tomorrow until Monday, so this will be the last Roundup until next Tuesday, and it begins with... Ed Tech Magazine and a new article on distance learning entitled, "When it Comes to Distance Learning, Schools Use What Works." If your school offers distance learning (for credit recovery, or for electives, or maybe just for classes that aren't available) this article has some great tips for helping to select the best distance learning tech for your needs.
Emerging Ed Tech has posted the conclusion to their three-part series on teaching with iPads, and this post focuses on the students' perspective (thefirst post was about administration, the second was about teachers). The article offers three lessons that were learned throughout the three-year review as well as information on student engagement and success.
Alley Watch has a new article about a pretty awesome edtech startup called Degreed. The service aims to "jailbreak" the degree by scoring and validating your lifelong learning, and not just through universities, but also through sites like Khan academy and other MOOCS. They want to provide a complete picture of all the learning a person has accomplished through accredited and non-accredited sources. The founder, David Blake, also has a great Ted Talk about the service.
Free Technology for Teachers has two new resources up:
(This app is really, really awesome for kids)
(This app is really, really awesome for kids)
Anyone that has tried to introduce new technology in a school knows that there are usually some teachers who are either skeptical of new tech, or just not comfortable with it. Edudemic's new article, "5 Ways to Support Teachers Skeptical of Technology," offers some tips on the best ways to help those teachers begin to integrate new tech into their classroom.
Edudemic also has a new infographic on the "Facts and Figures Behind Education in America." The infographic covers everything from the current US graduation rate (73.4%) to the total number of students enrolled in elementary and secondary schools (55,394,000) and more! It's a well designed graphic with some interesting statistics that I think students would enjoy as well.
Edudemic also has a new infographic on the "Facts and Figures Behind Education in America." The infographic covers everything from the current US graduation rate (73.4%) to the total number of students enrolled in elementary and secondary schools (55,394,000) and more! It's a well designed graphic with some interesting statistics that I think students would enjoy as well.
Educational Technology has three new posts to check out:
Alison Anderson at Getting Smart has a new post on "7 Social Media Tools to Tell your Classroom Story." In the article, she outlines how to use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Blogs, Podcasts, and Youtube, to connect with your students and share the story of your classroom. She provides links to excellent guides for each of these social media tools as well as tips and ideas for how to get started.
The Podcast machine, Ed Reach, has three new casts up:
The Lightning Round...
- Lisa Nielsen shares a new Infographic on Cyberbullying
- Teach Thought has 15 Literacy Apps to Create Books on the iPad
- Edudemic covers 10 Digital Resources that will Improve your School Library
- And, they've got 3 Reasons to Use Video in the Classroom
- Plus, a new infographic on How Students Use Smartphones
- Finally, USC Rossier (via Edudemic) shares an infographic on Why Teachers Quit
And that's it for the Roundup today! As I mentioned at the beginning, I'll be out of town until Monday night so the Roundup will return next Tuesday. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and thanks for reading! We'll end with a new flowchart to share with students on image use from the web...
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