Our Weekend edition begins at Edudemic with an enjoyable and inspiring post entitled, "Why Right Now is Just the Beginning for Education Technology." In the post, Dr. Jeff Borden argues that educational technology is only in its infancy and that we have a long way to go - but that's the exciting part! I agree wholeheartedly with the post and it's worth reading!
Next, Edudemic discusses an interesting infographic on "Why and How Teachers are (and aren't) Using Technology." The infographic focuses on early childhood education and the prevalence of technology in the classroom. The most optimistic statistic I found in the infographic was that over half of classrooms have students working on technology every single day, and only 8% have children using technology less than once a week (500 teachers and administrators were surveyed).
Finally, Edudemic closes with a post on "4 Tools to Help Avoid Summer Learning Loss." They cover:
Next, Edudemic discusses an interesting infographic on "Why and How Teachers are (and aren't) Using Technology." The infographic focuses on early childhood education and the prevalence of technology in the classroom. The most optimistic statistic I found in the infographic was that over half of classrooms have students working on technology every single day, and only 8% have children using technology less than once a week (500 teachers and administrators were surveyed).
Finally, Edudemic closes with a post on "4 Tools to Help Avoid Summer Learning Loss." They cover:
- GobStopper - An e-reading platform that lets you assign and monitor summer reading assignments
- MeMeTales - A free app that kids can use to read picture books and children's stories.
- Bookster - A free read along story-telling app that can also record children reading stories.
- Tales2Go - An audiobook service geared towards kids that streams over 1000 stories.
Next up, TeachThought has a post covering "The Simple Things I Do to Promote Brain-Based Learning in my Classroom." In the article, Dr. Judy Willis describes how she strives to not only teach students content, but to help them understand how their brains work and how learning occurs. It's an excellent and thought-provoking post with ideas that are useful in all grades and subject areas.
Educational Technology opens the weekend with a post reviewing "5 Web Tools to Create Awesome Digital Newspapers for your Class." The post covers Issuu, Scribd, Zinepal, Fodey, and Paper.li. Personally, I'm a big fan of Issuu and if you look under our lesson plans page, you'll see a student guide for uploading content to Issuu.
Educational Tech also has a new guide covering "Everything Teachers Need to Know About Google Spreadsheets." If you're not familiar, Google Spreadsheets is a component of Google Docs/Drive and can be an excellent (and free) alternative to Excel. If you've never used the app before, this guide offers lessons on all the basics and is a great place to get started.
Educational Tech also has a new guide covering "Everything Teachers Need to Know About Google Spreadsheets." If you're not familiar, Google Spreadsheets is a component of Google Docs/Drive and can be an excellent (and free) alternative to Excel. If you've never used the app before, this guide offers lessons on all the basics and is a great place to get started.
Emerging Ed Tech has an awesome write up on "Exciting Developments in Uses of 3D Printing in Education." We have only just begin to explore the benefits 3D printing can have in education and this article does an excellent job of putting together examples from schools across the country.
The Lightning Round...
- Educational Tech covers Apps for Summer Learning and 30 Ways Teachers can use Pinterest.
- Edudemic has great new infographics on Blended Learning, ESL Tools, and Blooms Taxonomy.
- The Ed Tech Review also has a new infographic covering The Dark Side of Moocs.
- Teach Thought reviews a app for creating video lessons and blogs: Soo Meta
And there's the weekend for you! We'll end today's round up with an interesting infographic that discusses current trends in Gamification... See you tomorrow!
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