And, we're back! After a crazy week of meet the teacher/back to school nights, I'm happy to be back to the Roundup! In the interim, there have been some exciting developments, well, really just one exciting development: The Ed Tech Roundup is launching a podcast with my good friend Saul Heide (@NoPaperNoProb) Every Wednesday night we'll discuss classroom integration ideas, new apps and tech tools, technology successes and failures, and we'll even have some awesome guests along the way. Check out our new twitter page for more (@MCTechFest)
First up, American Radio Works has a new essay/documentary entitled, "One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age." It's an excellent article about how teachers and technology can work together to continue improving the current state of education. It's a long one though, so set aside an hour or so (or download the MP3 version for the drive to work!)
Jackie Gerstein at User Generated Education has a wonderful new article on, "School, Executive Functions, and Technology." In the post, Gerstein discusses the role technology can play in helping students learn and practice executive functions and self-regulating skills. She provides some excellent technology tools to try and discusses tons of integration ideas.
Free Tech for Teachers has five new resources to check out:
Shane Haggerty as Edudemic has an excellent new post entitled, "How (and Why) to Try Twitter Teams In School." Twitter can be an excellent tool to connect district stakeholders (parents, teachers, administrators, and community members) and Haggerty's article discusses some of the major benefits that can result from a connected district. And, in case you missed the Roundup's recent guide/intro to Twitter, you can check it out here [ Seriously Teachers... It's Time to Join Twitter. ]
Educational Technology has four new posts to check out:
The EdReach Network has four new podcasts up:
Finally, if you've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to try out some of these new technology ideas in your classroom, the Flipped Learning Network is hosting a "Flipped Day" to help teacherstry our flipped lessons in their classroom. The day is September 6th (not that you have to do it on that specific day) and they have a great collection of lessons to help get going!
The Lightning Round...
- Mind/Shift shares the results of Neilsen's latest survey on How Students Prefer to Use Tablets
- Teach Thought covers 16 Free Science Apps to Download Now!
- Lisa Nielsen discusses 4 Innovative Ideas for Using Pinterest to Support Learning
- Perspectives 2.0 gives us 12 Apps for School Administrators
- The Ed Tech Review has a new infographic on the 5 Big Questions of Early Childhood Tech
- Edudemic shares 10 Web Resources for Becoming a Better Collaborator
Finally, Edudemic and Ann Vega share a great new infographic onHow to Use Instagram in Education. Thanks for reading and we'll be back tomorrow evening!
Courtesy of: Edudemic
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