Welcome back! And to everyone who was lucky enough to attend SXSWedu, you have my jealousy! We begin this week with an article from Liana Heitin at Education Week, "Computer Science: Not Just an Elective Anymore." Heitin discusses the growing push for computer science in the classroom, the support that the subject is beginning to receive across the states, and the obstacles that are still ahead.
Next up, Katie Lepi at Edudemic has a new post which asks, "How Has Technology Changed Younger Students?" The article includes an excellent infographic and discusses the growing prevalence of devices in schools as well as the potential value of utilizing these devices.
Here are a few of the great resources from FT4T this week:
Next up, Kristen Hicks at Getting Smart discusses "3 Methods to Strenghten Students' Social Media Skills." Hicks covers the importance of social media not only in the education setting but in the job market as well. She outlines three excellent reasons why students (and teachers) should focus on social media skills and provides tons of excellent examples for support and further reading.
Over at Edutopoia, Andrew Marcinek has an excellent new article entitled"Technology and Teaching: Finding a Balance." In the post, Marcinek asks "How do educators find an ideal balance for learning about and eventually integrating technology?" He goes on to outline 3 examples of balanced technology integration and discuss the educational opportunities that this type of integration offers.
ET&ML has some excellent new resources from this week:
And speaking of great tools to check for plagiarism in student work, one that is left off from the ET&ML post is Unplag. You can upload student work in a large variety of formats and within seconds their plagiarism engine will tell you exactly how much (if any) of the paper is copy and pasted. It's a great resource, especially if you're dealing with digital writing of any kind.
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5 Web Tools to Create Academic Digital Portfolios
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Visual on How Teahcers & Students See Social Media
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5 Guides on Social Media Use for Parents and Teachers
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Three Tools to Check for Plagiarism in Student work
And speaking of great tools to check for plagiarism in student work, one that is left off from the ET&ML post is Unplag. You can upload student work in a large variety of formats and within seconds their plagiarism engine will tell you exactly how much (if any) of the paper is copy and pasted. It's a great resource, especially if you're dealing with digital writing of any kind.
Dom Norrish is back with his second post on "Considering the Best Way Forward for 1-1 Projects in 2014." Norrish opens by discussing the benefits of tablets and laptops in the classroom, and then introducing the idea of creating a "mixed-estate" 1:1 project. Definitely a great read, especially for districts that are trying to create 1:1 environments.
EdReach, as always, has an excellent collection of podcasts:
Finally, The Guardian, in tandem with Open University, has released an interactive infographic entitled "From Lecture Halls to Laptops: How do We Like to Learn?" To create the visual, they surveyed 2000 adults in the UK and asked about their higher education experiences and attitudes towards classes and learning online.
The Lightning Round...
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Edudemic discusses 4 Popular Classroom Creation Tools (And Why They Matter)
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Getting Smart gives us5 Reasons a Software Subscription May Beat a Content Purchase
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Teach Thought covers 63 Things Every Student Should Know in a Digital World
And that's it for the Roundup this week! Thanks for tuning in! And, for those interested in graduate school, we'll close with a new infographic from Grad School Hub on the numbers, figures, and facts on pretty much everything you could ever want to know! See you next time!
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