And.... we're back! I hope everyone had an excellent fourth of July weekend! Today we begin over at Reuters with an interesting/creepy/I'm not exactly sure how to feel about this story entitled, "Biosensors to monitor U.S. students' attentiveness." The post discusses how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pushing to get biometric bracelets into classrooms to help measure students' engagement. It's a great article and covers all sides of how this could play out.
Ed Tech Magazine has a new article on "Investing in STEM Education Can Bridge the IT Skills Gap." The author of the post, Gary Beach (the publisher of CIO Magazine), discusses how he believes skills like adaptive thinking, virtual collaboration, and new media literacy are more important than basic math and science literacy, and that focusing on these skills in schools can help begin to close the gap between what employers need and what our students are learning.
Electronic Brains has a new post discussing "Professional Development in 21st Century Education." The article pushes for teachers to become more actively engaged in professional development conferences and workshops, and to get involved with social media groups like Twitter and Google+ in order to learn from other educators. Plus, the post summarizes some great PD sessions from the Connect 2013 conference.
Along with sharing a great resource with Free Digital Citizenship Plans, Free Tech continues their best of 2013 lists:
Jamie Forshey over at EduTech for Teachers has her Diigo Weekly Update posted. She's got three new tools to share with everyone this week:
- Jigsaw Planet - Create virtual jigsaw puzzles
- Photovisi - Create online photo collages
- Cite This For Me - Instantly create bibliographies
Educational Technology has four new posts from the weekend:
The Ed Tech Review has a new article which asks, "How Can Technology Make a Classroom Engaging?" The post covers specific tools and apps that teachers can easily use in the classroom. They also cover polls, quizzes, contests, game-based learning, video-based learning, and digital learning. It's a great summary of the many ways technology can be used to help engage and motive students in the classroom.
Also, for those computer science teachers out there, the Ed Tech Review has a post outlining some "Great Online Resources to Learn to Code." They cover Udacity, Code Academy (my personal favorite), Code Avengers, Code School, and Team Tree House, all of which are worth checking out.
Also, for those computer science teachers out there, the Ed Tech Review has a post outlining some "Great Online Resources to Learn to Code." They cover Udacity, Code Academy (my personal favorite), Code Avengers, Code School, and Team Tree House, all of which are worth checking out.
Getting Smart has a great post entitled, "Augmented Reality: The Future of EdTech." If you're not familiar with Augmented Reality, imagine looking at an historic building, or a museum exhibit through your iPad and being presented with tons of information and interactive content about whatever you're looking at. There are definitely some huge educational possibilities with AR and this article by Drew Minock does an excellent job discussing them and offering examples.
And in case you missed any other Getting Smart articles from the week, they've got their weekly roundup posted, "EdTech 10: The Fireworks Aren't Done Yet."
And in case you missed any other Getting Smart articles from the week, they've got their weekly roundup posted, "EdTech 10: The Fireworks Aren't Done Yet."
Lisa Nielsen at the Innovative Educator has a new infoflyer up entitled, "Pause Before you Post: Sometimes Forever is Bad!" The flyer encourages students to slow down and think before they post content online. She has some excellent examples throughout the flyer that will hopefully get students to realize that the internet is permanent! It's a great resource and one that should definitely be shared with students.
Teach Thought has several great articles up from the weekend and one new review as well:
Edgenuity - the online K-12 curriculum provider - has been in the news a lot lately as well. First, they've begun offering higher ed courses to support college in addition to K-12 learning. And they just released a collection of Online Learning Success Stories from Blended Learning Summits. If your school is considering online classes or blended learning, Edgenuity is definitely a provider worth considering. You can read more about them in this Ed Surge review.
The Lightning Round...
- Teach Thought shares 41 Apps One 4th Grade Teacher Depends On
- Educational Technology covers Everything Teachers Need to Know about BYOT Policy
- Edudemic has a new infographic on The Staggering number of Schools that have Gone Google
- They also cover the 6 American History Apps Perfect for Summer Learning
- And Edudemic has the Scary Facts High School Graduates DON'T Know
- Finally, in case you missed the announcement, the 2013 Educator's Voice Awards are up!
And that's a wrap! Thanks for reading and we'll be back tomorrow with the Daily Roundup. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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