Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and a good start to the school year! This week we'll begin at Getting Smart with a new post from Jim Schultz on "Three Ways Blended Learning Makes Teachers More Efficient." Schultz opens with a basic definition of blended learning (in case you're unfamiliar) and then jumps into his reasons on why it makes for more effective classes.
Next up, Nicole Blake Johnson at EdTech Magazine has a new post which outlines the Internet Keep Safe Coalition's"New Digital Literacy Program to Educate K-12 Students on Internet Safety." The post also discusses how the curriculum offers free lessons that align with Common Core Standards. If you're a computer literacy teacher, or looking for a good way to inform students about internet safety, this is a good place to start.
A few of the great new resources from Free Tech for Teachers:
Let's take it back to blended learning for a moment with a solid post from Reannah Sartoris at Edudemic. Sartoris' new post, "Top 5 Tips for a Blended Learning Classroom" offers some simple, easy-to-follow tips for teachers just beginning in a blended environment.
Over at Inside Higher Ed, the team has just released a new 30-page booklet entitled "Online Education: More than MOOCs." For those not familiar, a MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course, and has become one of the standards for online education. If you're interested in online education, either K-12 or higher-ed, I definitely recommend reading thefree book.
Here are a few of the new podcasts from the EdReach network
And finally, for those of us who love virtual reality, and the potential it has for the K-12 learning environment, Benjamin Herold at Education Week has an excellent new article entitled, "Oculus Rift Fueling New Vision for Virtual Reality in K-12." If you haven't heard of the Oculus Rift, it's pretty awesome, and offers some exciting possibilities for K-12
The Lightning Round...
- Teach Amazing gives us 5 Ways to Use Mind Mapping Apps in the Classroom
- Edudemic shares the Top Gamification Tools Worth Trying
- Educational Tech & Mobile Learning offers 2 Useful Videos on Flipped Learning
- Emerging Ed Tech covers 10 of the Most Engaging Uses of Instructional Technology
- The Ed Tech Review discusses 5 Ways for Teachers to Use Tumblr in their Classroom
- Finally, THE Journal provides 15 Apps Every Principal Should Have
That's it for this week! Thanks for stopping by and we'll have some new reviews up soon for you as well. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and we'll close with a new interactive infographic from Open Colleges on the Uses of Google Glass in Education. See you next time!
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