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New Site Offers Help with Shift to Digital Education
Epic-ed features advice for creating, sustaining technology-based classrooms By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor August 26th, 2012 http://www.eschoolnews.com A new online community that launched Aug. 22...
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Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms'
Benefits and drawbacks seen in replacing lectures with on-demand video By Katie Ash Published Online: August 27, 2012 Published in Print: August 29, 2012 www.edweek.org A growing number of educators...
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US Schools Seeing More Technology, Better Resource Sharing
The next stage of digital adoption could be figuring out how schools can better share tech resources within their district, their state and even the country. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 2012 JULIA LAWRENCE...
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4 Questions to Increase Relevance
Last night, I had a nightmare. I was in an airport and none of the self check-in kiosks were working. I went to the counter and realized I didn't have my suitcase or computer. I had no idea where they...
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Student Creativity Celebrated Internationally on Sept. 15
International Dot Day reaches more than half a million people, reminding everyone that education is about much more than testing by Meris Stansbury September 14th, 2012 www.eschoolnews.com In today’s...
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Rewiring the Brain - It's Child's Play
BRONWYN TORRIE AND TOM PULLAR-STRECKER Last updated 05:00 04/08/2012 http://www.stuff.co.nz Harry Simons is only six but he uses a classroom netbook every day, possibly rewiring his brain in a way his...
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When Pop Culture & Academia Collide
Posted on Thursday August 30, 2012 by Staff Writers
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Facebook and YouTube Offer Guidelines to Help Schools and Parents
August 2, 2012 | 7:00 AM | By MindShift By Matt Levinson http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift OOnline social giants YouTube and Facebook have taken big steps to attempt to provide guidance on digital...
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Why College Students Still Prefer Print Over E-Books
By Katrina Schwartz September 14, 2012 | 11:58 AM http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/ CCollege students may seem to be well-equipped to learn in a wired world, but despite the enormous growth of tablets,...
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Texting’s Effect on Grammar is Debated
MONDAY AUGUST 13, 2012, 9:26 AM BY ELYSE TORIBIO STAFF WRITER www.northjersey.com If the average American teen sends a staggering 3,000 text messages a month, you can be sure that there are more than...
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Are Textbooks an Obstacle to Learning?
By Benjamin-Stern on August 29th, 2012 http://smartblogs.com In “We Don’t Need No Stink’n Textbooks,” Tom Whitby convincingly argues that textbooks are as obstructive to learning as they are...
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The 20 Most-Watched TED Talks to Date
21 August 2012 TED Blog http://blog.ted.com TED is dedicated to ideas worth spreading. And that leaves many wondering exactly which ideas have been spread the most widely in the six years that...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Blogging
www.zemanta.com Some argue that blogging is passé, but nothing could be further from the truth. Available tools enable all of us to express ourselves, share our views and especially knowledge and...
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Are Kids All That Techno-Smart? Maybe Not
Mastery of devices doesn't translate into understanding, experts say August 13th, 2012 www.eschoolnews.com The Millennial Generation was born and raised in the digital world. Whether they are checking...
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How Well Are Schools Teaching Cyber Safety and Ethics?
May 19, 2011 | 3:09 PM | By Audrey Watters blogs.kqed.org/mindshift Earlier this week we looked at proposed legislation in California that would change how social networking websites handle privacy...
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If We Are Truly Mobile, Then Where's School?
I don't think we understand the mobile revolution yet. Most of the examples I see of mobile computing in K12 use mobility within school. The point is, that when we are truly mobile, as many of us are,...
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10 Incredible iPad Apps for Education
7TH JULY 2012 by ASAM SHAH http://thenextweb.com Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom. While this may be true, there’s no...
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