Education Nation is a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During an interactive summit on Rockefeller Plaza, parents, teachers and students will meet with leaders in politics, business and technology to explore the challenges and opportunities in education today. NBC News will turn Rockefeller Plaza into a Learning Plaza, a series of galleries open to the public where visitors will be able to explore the latest innovations used in award-winning classrooms nationwide.
There has always been at least some sort of disconnect between how things like mobile learning are taught in a classroom and how things work in the 'real world'.
From SMART Boards to tablets, technology has significantly transformed the way students learn. One of the latest trends, gamification, is the use of game design and mechanics to enhance learning. Research has shown that children are more likely to become engaged when gaming elements are incorporated into lessons.
A media theorist says we’ve made bad choices with technology. Instead of using networked technologies to help us use time better, we live in a digital nova of immediate messages, each one demanding our attention. It’s time to rebel, he says, with some revolutionary quiet time. Read more…
Video on TODAY.com: New photo-sharing app Snapchat has become highly popular among teens, but it’s raising concern among parents that it may be offering teens a false sense of security about sending compromising photos. NBC’s Andrea Canning reports.
Snapchat app has parents of teens concerned http://www.today.com/video/today/50068553 via @TODAY
Looking a bit like the Sims video game, Plan It Green is a new online challenge that aims to teach kids about the realities of city development, and energy management.Aimed at middle schoolers, players get to be mayor for a day, and make decisions about where to build houses and lay down roads, whether to use revenue to construct parks, bike paths, organic farms and wildlife preserves, and how to balance out dirtier forms of energy production with cleaner, but less dependable, renewable power.
Using social media in schools doesn't have to be scary, says Matt Britland. Here, he shares his tips for managing school accounts and some examples good practice
Facebook seems to be putting a full-court press on mobile lately. And for good reason. Numerous social apps not called Facebook are gaining traction on smartphones.
Which is the best social networking site for you? Find out here. Take a few seconds and easily compare several top rated sites. See how each stacks up using a side-by-side feature comparison chart.
There are many reasons we use social media. From the basic to the more advanced, the tool is simply ubiqutious and addictive. This infographic sheds some light for us all.
Social media experts Baratunde Thurston, former digital director at The Onion and author of the book How to Be Black, and Deanna Zandt, author of Share This: How You Will Change the World with Social Networking, answer questions about how to behave in the digital age. This week's topic: leaving a voicemail message in a world that relies increasingly on text-based communication.
Recently I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend of social networking sites that require you to throw your friends under the bus to get whatever goodness the given site is offering you. The latest entry in this social networking arms race is Bing, which recently presented me with this very scary dialog box: So not [...]
As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life. He unveils a Firefox add-on to do just that.
As I watched Sony unveil the PlayStation 4 at a press conference on Feb. 20, I was struck by how much data the new device would be collecting from its users.
Image via CrunchBase In their never-ending search for the next big thing, class action plaintiffs' lawyers had high hopes for suits alleging various violations of Internet users’ “privacy.” All of the prerequisites for a big award seem to be present: (1) lots of class members; (2) easy-to-understand facts; (3) large, profit-seeking [...]
Online Privacy Is a Shared Responsibility: Beginning with You http://www.safekids.com/2013/02/15/online-privacy-is-a-shared-responsibility-beginning-with-you/#.UUofr3yYOlZ.twitter
I asked my daughter to write a guest post on internet safety for teens. (Well, okay, it was more of a required lesson after a doozy of a slip up while online.)
A federal law created to protect minors in the digital world may be thrusting them into harm's way. According to a recent study from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, students who lie about their age to access Facebook prior to turning 13 could be putting other students at risk.
Online reputation isn't just for teens. If you are looking for a job, own a business, or are a professional, you are being searched online! It is a fact that more and more people use search engines to poke into your digital image -- many won't give you a second glance if it is tainted.
Understanding Digital Parenting: The Essential Guide to Raising Connected Kids will help every parent who has ever struggled to bridge the information gap between what they can see their child doing at home and what they are doing online.
You heard constantly about the millennial generation--that they’re tech-savvy, and different from everyone that came before. It’s not just hype, or vanity on the part of the youngsters: People who are 18-29 right now have markedly different attitudes, beliefs, and mores than any generation preceding them.This infographic by Online Graduate Programs does a good job of summing up all that data.
The Millennials we highlight are the true change-makers of communities across the country and around the world. They heard it could not be done, and they still persisted.
Martyrdom inspired the feast of Saint Valentine thousands of years ago. Today, we have the Manti Te'o dating culture complete with texting, linking, e-cards, memes, the internet, and more.
Last week the Miami Herald ran a really interesting story on the impact that the shift of viewing habits from the TV to the web is having on both the broadcast and cable TV ecosystems. This new trend is being...
Generation Y or Millennials here are 10 facts about the group who is coming of age between multi-billionaire IPOs, endless wars and game-changing demographic shifts. Is this the way we are?
How to manage tomorrow’s people? It starts with deeply understanding their motivations, aspirations, expectations and values. As our 2011 survey shows, these are markedly different than today’s.
The Internet is a dangerous place. When Millennials go online, they risk running into cyberbullies, identity thieves, trolls lurking in the comments sections... Even on social media sites, where they're surrounded by "friends," they can occasionally feel harassed.
Recently, a skeptical senior leader asked me to explain the business case for why organizations need to take a more coordinated, strategic approach to work flexibility.I began to list all of the business benefits, including, “Millennials value their lives outside of work and expect to be able to do their jobs flexibly.” He responded, “The problem is that they don’t want to work hard. I would never have talked about work-life balance when I was their age. I just felt lucky to have a job.”He is not alone in that thinking.
The role of the typical school district technology director has become obsolete. Speak with your average teacher in many school districts in the U.S., and
An Akron middle school teacher could be fired after she posted a photograph on Facebook which showed duct-tape covering the mouths of several of her students.
By bringing your own device (BYOD) to school, it may allow the technology to be introduced into the learning process. If we don’t do anything, the next generation will by stifled by schools and they will become the barriers which we work so hard to remove.
Ghetto Film School's Stosh Mintek demonstrates how easy it is to set up and host a class using Google+ Hangouts. To learn more about Ghetto Film School's pro...
The case against Aaron isn’t about justice and national security. It’s about a broader, systemic battle. It’s about power. But we should also fear the likelihood that Aaron will be turned into a martyr: an abstraction of a geek activist destroyed by the state.
#CutForBieber is not something cool,” another wrote. “Some people actually are going through self-harm and can’t stop. Have some respect for those people.”
Blogger and digital literacy advocate Douglas Rushkoff talks about why young children aren't ready for screen time and how parents can be effective gatekeepers.
As digital technologies become daily staples in both our personal and professional lives, there's been much discussion among educators and community leaders as to whether these devices and innovations could in some way be accountable for shifts in the ethical and moral make-up of contemporary society.
Veteran Education Week reporter and Digital Directions Deputy Editor Sean Cavanagh and Staff Writer Katie Ash explore how technology is shaping teaching and learning and the management of schools. Join the discussion as they analyze the latest developments.
Social networking, especially via Twitter and Facebook, has become a major part in modern life for many millions of people. It therefore makes sense to show children how to use it wisely and how to get the best out of it – just as teachers and parents have always done with resources such as libraries and newspapers. Much better to guide and teach than to leave vulnerable children and teenagers to find out for themselves without warning them of the potential dangers, pitfalls and problems.
Nov. 15, 2012 This season, if we all choose to support media and marketing messages with positive worldviews instead of defaulting to ‘what’s out there’ we could call for a massive mindshift to start chiseling away toward change. The thorny marketing response “If it didn’t sell, we wouldn’t produce it” is piercing my side this [...]
Edutopia blogger Mary Beth Hertz invites us to look at our assumptions that all kids are born tech-savvy, and encourages us to think more globally about how we can teach them to thrive as citizens in a digital world.
Facebook is changing its privacy policy. Again. Many Facebook users are frantically posting a "copyright protection notice" on their Walls to try to keep Facebook from violating their privacy by copying, disseminating, sharing, leaking, licking, scratching, biting, or clawing the contents of their Facebook accounts. It's complete legal mumbo jumbo that's [...]
View Marthastewart's Festive Holiday Apps for iPhone and iPad collection Also, browse thousands of other holiday clip-art, decorating, crafts, hand-made gifts and project ideas.
100+ great holiday gifts for kids of all ages! Common Sense Media editors have hand-picked movies, TV shows, books, music, apps, games, and websites for every kid on your list.
Description: June 2012: The essential compendium of need-to-know statistics. Beware of media hype and mobile myth – put your mobile strategy on a sound footing with the latest research from credible independent experts. Global mobile
Jennifer Carey tells how she's using smartphones in her classroom: to charge up lessons, promote research & fact-checking and harness powerful apps for learning.
The fact is that the open Internet has been used by young people since the early nineties and those early digital natives -- now in their mid to late 20s -- seem to be doing OK, despite the ready availability of online porn, drug sites, hate sites and sites advocating all sorts of social evils.
Oct. 15, 2012 Teens call them ‘trackers,’ parents call them ‘tools,’ and the telecom industry refers to GPS and LBS (location based services) as sheer “growth” in a mobile market that’s booming with map-based apps that pinpoint the whereabouts of users. We need to uncork this whopper of a conversation beyond the micro (oooh, handy! [...]
Oct 21, 2012 Any parent who has ever ended up in a glorified game of ‘Where’s Waldo’ hunting for their offspring after temporarily ‘sliding off the grid’ with whereabouts unknown (homecoming, prom, New Year’s, or playing loose with the facts in sins of omission sidewinders) will have a pretty strong snapshot of Life 360‘s strongest [...]
Did you know that traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for American teens? And when it comes to distracted driving, young people are among the most likely to text and talk behind the wheel.
A video of factoids of what it means to be a student today, learning in lecture halls in front of blackboards even while the computer is the dominant disseminator of all information. This smattering of statistics is gathered by the Digital Ethnography program at Kansas State University and makes clear that the classroom has changed.
Well-intentioned parents who've kept their tweens off Facebook are catching on to the workaround: kids are turning to Instagram, the photo-sharing app that may as well be a social network. Read this article by Michelle Meyers on CNET News.
Writing professor and researcher Jeff Grabill discusses a Michigan State University study which suggests that, although students spend much of their day with cell phone in hand, their "writing lives" are blossoming.
Mobile devices are becoming as essential to students' daily lives as, say, breakfast. Experts say it's time to utilize them in our schools to engage students.
Reading a text message behind the wheel can take your eyes off the road for an average of five seconds - enough time to drive the length of a football field....
From the blog Work + Money: Make Thanksgiving last all year by practicing gratitude!In studies conducted by the founder of the positive psychology movement, Dr Martin Seligman, participants who kept gratitude journals every day for a week ranked higher in happiness and lower on stress levels, and many were found to be continui
A MiddleWeb Guest Article by Frank W. Baker Media Literacy Consultant It’s early fall as I write this, and already toy advertisers and marketers have...
As technology invades our lives and covers every facet of working, playing, learning and more, we as a culture will need to adjust and find balance so as to not get so lost in the digital world that we lose ourselves.
Defining Digital Citizenship: A Heroic Approach In our classrooms, we may wonder how to define digital citizenship. Where do we begin? Google it and you’ll see hundreds of entries in page after page of search results, a torrential downpour of information! I have always found inspiration in biography, a genre
Read 'Buzz over new social experiment in S’pore' from our blog SingaporeScene on Yahoo! News Singapore. The drinks are flowing, the conversation is scintillating, it's a laugh-a-minute and so far, even though the night's just begun, you're having a ball and can't wait for what the rest of the evening promises. On your phone, that is. … Continue reading →
A beautiful app that helps you start a gratitude journal. By focusing on what you have, you will get more in your life. Read more about the benefits today...
Find education news, teaching strategies, lesson plans, activity ideas and more on the WeAreTeachers blog. Featuring posts by guest bloggers and teachers as well as WeAreTeachers editors.
Join us Thursday November 1st at our adopted home under the bigtop of the Two Bit Circus in Los Angeles for Educelerate LA II on Social Media and Learning.
Guest post written by Jeremy Friedman Jeremy Friedman is founder and CEO of Schoology, a provider of classroom management software. Jeremy Friedman The past few years have seen a steady influx of new investment, new companies and new opportunities in education technology. From technologies that live inside the classroom to technologies that inspire [...]
English/Language Arts teachers often ask me what technology can do for them. After all, eBooks
are revolutionizing both the weight of students’ backpacks and the
local bookstore’s bottom line. But the English classroom? The jury’s
out
The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society.
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? If the answer to the question is an extension of our current definition of literacy, it means to be able to read and write. But what does it mean to be able to read and write tomorrow?
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Do your OMGs and LOLs have you srsly forgetting how to write in proper English? This infographic explores the rise of texting and its effect on language.
Higher education instructors, both old and young, have widely adopted social technology in their curricula—as well as in their private and professional lives.
Instructional uses of social networking software can provide opportunities for learning, connecting, and engagement. This year, I've written frequently
Ever lie to your parents, even once, about where you were after school? It'll be tougher for today's teenagers, who may have to leave their smart phones behind if they don't want Mom and Dad following their every move.
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
It's all about education and learning, especially to become the President of the United States of America. So, let's take a look into just what President Barack
We have an exciting and experienced panel of experts lined up from GameDesk, Greendot Public Schools and Pearson Education to discuss the latest use of social media and its impact on education, both inside and outside of the classroom. Thank you to Cynthia Lieberman of CyberWise for assembling and moderating this panel.
Panelists include:
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We have an exciting and experienced panel of experts lined up from GameDesk, Greendot Public Schools and Pearson Education to discuss the latest use of social media and its impact on education, both i
Thanks to the rise of in-classroom technology, the focus in education tends to be on student engagement and how to improve learning. It becomes easy to forget the importance of great teachers. Star...
The usage of a combination of powerful, yet affordable, visual display of technology hardware and software mesh perfectly with the needs of many of today‘s cla…
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas––superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members. Our nonprofit, nonpartisan membership association provides expert and innovative solutions in professional development, capacity building, and educational leadership essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead.
Are too many parents distracted by mobile devices when they should be watching their kids? A recent rise in injuries, reversing the longstanding trend, has doctors worried that the answer is yes.
This Public Service Announcement (PSA) was produced in 1995 by the 5th grade students at Ray Bjork school in Helena Montana. All the Internet possibilities m...
Nevertheless, a key question remains: does today's tech-driven classroom, with its computer-wielding students fashioning Facebook pages, creating PowerPoint presentations, and undertaking one-to-one tests and lessons -- as teachers roam as coaches -- consistently improve student performance across regions and demographics? Especially in the fundamentals of reading, writing and math?
The back-to-school flurry has begun. Teachers all around you are decorating bulletin boards, organizing their gradebooks, and collaborating on which ice-breaker games to use with their advisories. Your administration has prepared you well for the coming year. But have you mastered the 21st century skills every teacher should know?
This is how two hot concepts in higher education can be blended to beat the status quo and get educators and students on the same page with digital literacy.
The new school year is upon us, which means it's time to go back to school and hit the books! Lucky for us, the iPhone and iPad are excellent devices, not only for study time but right in the classroom. From storing important files, to learning math and chemistry, to writing papers, to taking notes, and even staying safe, there are many apps in the App Store to help you go back to school and get your learning on. And iMore is here to show you the very A+ selections, the perfect 4.0s -- the very best apps for education.
As a guy who delivers two-day #edtech workshops during my breaks from full-time classroom teaching, I’m often asked the same questions again and again: H
It’s that time of year—summer’s over and school is just around the corner. It’s time to look at your crisis communications checklist for the coming year and make sure you are ready on the social media front. Let’s start with a quiz—it’s school after all, right? Do you fit in any of these groups?
Games can provide the extrinsic motivation to get involved in the form of competition and quests. The play stimulates the intrinsic motivation that facilitates the learning of new skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors and the positive emotions that promote self-efficacy and resilience.
Video games have been at the forefront of interactive media and continue to be a significant part of the participatory media environment. The thought of a video game still may strike horror into the hearts of many, but video games are just a digital manifestation of a very basic human behavior: play. Playing is where we learn.
Web 2.0 Research Tools - A Quick Guide - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), text file (.txt) or read book online for free. A guide on 20 selected Web 2.0 tools for research purposes
Resetting Education: Social networks for the classroom. Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum; how social networks are adding a new dimension by Faith Merino on July 30, 2012
When writing the whitepaper about Casual games, I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. While doing so, I documented a few of the
Curiosity is a human trait that makes us want to discover what lies beyond the horizon, over the ocean or what can be seen and experienced from the top of a beckoning mountain.
It makes humans take risks that are both life threatening and potentially rewarding and life changing.
Edutopia blogger Mary Beth Hertz suggests a number of ways that tech-savvy teachers can keep their students engaged in academic thinking over summer vacation.
Ready for the best ipad STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) apps for kids? These can be great for summer learning, too. Just remember that most ipad apps, with a few exceptions like Khan Academy, won't instruct your child. They will, however, give him or her practice, repetition, and reinforcement. Great for stopping the summer slide!
Call me a skeptic, but the idea of having random people from around the Web collaborating in the creation of e-learning content for accredited online degree programs seems absurd. I went to graduate school for years, read …
The free language-learning service that doubles as a crowdsourced text translation platform will open to the public on June 19. Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Internet & Media.
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
The best and safest strategy would be to provide younger children with a safe, secure and private experience that allows them to interact with verified friends and family members without having to lie about their age.
The key to learning to code is learning to think like a computer--which is a hard thing to do. "It requires structured thinking, ability to abstract details away, and there’s little margin for error--one little typo and your program might do something entirely different from what you wanted," says game developer Rui Viana. "The real world just doesn’t work like that, so it’s hard to get your head around it." Which is precisely why Viana created Cargo-Bot, a simple iPad app that turns "thinking like a computer" into a genuinely addictive puzzle game.
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
Darrell West examines how new technologies such as blogs, social media, and video games improve education, and how schools and universities are using these tools to help students learn.
I've compiled a large list of familiar (and not-so-familiar) tools that will hopefully help you with your web content, social media, analytical and curation needs. If there's something I missed, feel free to add it to the Google Doc.
We can show you how to remove undesirable photo tags, and, more importantly, how to tweak your Facebook privacy settings to make sure an unapproved photo tag never appears on your Timeline ever again
We can show you how to remove undesirable photo tags, and, more importantly, how to tweak your Facebook privacy settings to make sure an unapproved photo tag never appears on your Timeline ever again
Reporter Sarah D. Sparks spent the last five years writing about federal and state education regulations. Now covering education research, she can most often be found with a double-shot mocha in one hand and the latest academic journal in the other. Join her in a discussion of the politics, personalities, and p-values in education studies, and help bring research out of the lab and into the classroom.
Organizations and universities are offering course material online free to spread knowledge more widely. Their work has been received enthusiastically, sometimes from surprising places.
How can schools teach students to be more innovative? Offer hands-on classes and don't penalize failure. Tony Wagner on preparing students for the 21st-century economy.
Over the next 10 weeks, we’ll be highlighting resources on multiple topics as it relates to helping your kids with safe and responsible technology use. This week, we’re featuring a few tips on parental controls and 3 of the more popular eReaders: the Nook, Kindle Fire, and the Apple iPad. eReaders are a fantastic way to encourage reading among kids. While there is a big upfront cost for the reader, they give you access to huge libraries of books at no or low cost. In the end, it may be a cost savings for you, depending on how much your kids like to read. Most of the newer eReaders have a browser, a way to get out onto the vast world of the Internet. They can also download apps, movies, and music. They’ve all been designed for the masses, and not necessarily with parents and kids in mind. Ideally, this will shift over time, but for now there are many families who need to know what they’re getting into when they decide to buy their kids an eReader.
Recently, I was invited to participate in a webinar titled, Using social media to enhance school-community relations. The webinar was spearheaded by Dr. Sc...
How does LAUSD use technology in the classroom? Warren Dale, Head of Technology at Mulholland Middle School, Superintendent John Deasy, and Jorge Briseno, Director of Instructional TV will tell you how this district is keeping our students ahead of the…
Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas––superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members. Our nonprofit, nonpartisan membership association provides expert and innovative solutions in professional development, capacity building, and educational leadership essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead.
Many popular Facebook apps obtain sensitive information about users—and users' friends—so don't be surprised if details about your religious, political and even sexual preferences start popping up in unexpected places.
For years bullying had been thought of as a necessary rite of passage to adulthood. If bullying is a devil’s trait, then we as concerned citizens and parents can play protectors. Educating ourselves about how to recognize a serial bully and deal with him is a first step. Maybe these five websites can be important stops on that journey.
To understand how social media, an almost integral part of our current culture, can benefit K-12 schools and districts, we asked eSchool News readers: “Name one way you use social networking in your school/district. Or, if you can't/don't currently use social networking, how would you like to?”
It's become a well-worn truism over the past few years now that video games, far from being "just for kids," appeal to a wide and diverse audience. The average gamer is in his or her late 30s and has been at it for many, many years.
Over the years, the decades, I have been time after time convinced of the value of games to teach, and so recently have been researching game design. I want to create my own educational games. The topic is wide-ranging and opinions on every aspect, even the definition of game, are many. Unfortunately the number of books and articles on the...
Esta infografía de Steve Peters nos ayuda a entender si una iniciativa es o no un relato Transmedia. by eduardopradanos in Creative Writing, Storytelling, and transmedia
It's about. It answers the question, What matters? It's About (tiny.cc/itsabout) is the first in a series of digital art compositions pieces that explore the...
Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young user
In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, education professors Allan Collins and Richard Halverson tackle the fraught issue of what it means to be an…
From smartphones and apps to computers and social networks, technology has permanently invaded kids’ lives, much to the benefit of parents and educators.
The KIDO'Z Kid's Web Environment is the safe, easy and fun way for young kids to surf their favorite sites, watch videos, play games, send emails, create and communicate without knowing how to read and write!.
Here are seven of the biggest myths about learning that, unfortunately, guide the way many schools are organized in this era of standardized test-based public school reform.
A short movie I've done for the European Association for Viewer's Interests in Brussels. The goal was to make a playful approach of the Media Literacy's concept in order to reach younger and non-initiate audiences. So, following Jack our little hero...
In a world so full of knowledge and an abundance of learning possibilities, isn't it our responsibility to work as hard as we can to see that every child has a chance to unlock his or her potential?
The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning Magazine, articles from Educators in Educators' eZine, Event and Contest listings, Reader suggested Web sites, and weekly news updates on education technology leaders.
Emerging technologies are not limiting teacher's roles - they are expanding their tool kits, improving their availability, and empowering them in many exciting
Teenagers’ access to the Internet should not be restricted, says an expert on social research who says she benefited from it herself when she was young.
Students without the skills to use digital tools risk suffering an inferior learning process at best, and being left completely behind at worst, says JISC's Sarah Knight
Borrowing from the Boy Scouts, colleges like and companies are experimenting with a new way to certify skills. Among the experiments: MITx, a grant program from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and P2P University.
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Instead of reviewing The Year in EdTech, instead of giving you the Best 100 Education Apps, let’s do something di…
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
Facebook. YouTube. Video games. Texting. Every day, there's something new in our kids' digital lives. Getting up to speed -- plus giving our kids guid...
When the New Year comes around we make resolutions to lose weight, spend more time with friends and family, or simply get more organized. These resolutions, however, have the tendency to fall off soon after we start as they require a huge time investment and sometimes a change in lifestyle....
You want to celebrate the holidays—but you also want to stay on-track with your curriculum. How do you create a celebratory and festive environment without hijacking learning? We've rounded up 15 awesome holiday-related lesson pla
Kids are immersed in social media and video games all day, and are then expected to learn from textbooks and lectures. If there's any hope of teaching students 21st century skills, we'll have to boost engagement in the classroom.
Education Nation is a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During an interactive summit on Rockefeller Plaza, parents, teachers and students will meet with leaders in politics, business and technology to explore the challenges and opportunities in education today. NBC News will turn Rockefeller Plaza into a Learning Plaza, a series of galleries open to the public where visitors will be able to explore the latest innovations used in award-winning classrooms nationwide.
Digital Citizenship
If you’re reading this, chances are you have access to the Internet. But how much do you really know about the information superhighway—and how familiar are you with its dangers, rules of conduct, and most important features? Tim and Moby will bring you up to speed in this BrainPOP Spotlight on Digital Citizenship. You’ll learn what Blogs are; how E-mail and IM (instant messaging) systems work; and the best ways to conduct an Internet Search. If you’re writing a paper or report, our Online Sources topic will show you how different types of websites can help you with your research, while our topics on Plagiarism and Copyright will explain how to avoid costly mistakes that could earn you failing grades. You’ll learn how to make sure your personal information stays private, while our topics on Digital Etiquette and Cyberbullying will show you why it’s important to treat others the way you’d want to be treated—even in cyberspace! Finally, take a look at the annoying, d
A school board member takes versions of his state’s standardized tests in math and reading, and realizes something is really wrong with these high-stakes exams.
At least 36 schools nationwide are combining teacher-led lessons with computer-based lectures and exercises using a software program based on Salman Khan’s popular YouTube lessons.
Portal. Minecraft. Indie Games. PBS on video games. Off Book: Video Games Video games are important. They are a storytelling medium, a place for self-expression, a sandbox for the human imagination,...
Do you want to use social media in your classroom but aren't sure how to get started? These are our seven picks for great free tools to add to your lesson plan.
Let’s be honest: In the area of digital citizenship, as educators, we are not doing our jobs. Sure, there are pockets of excellence and teachers here and there that are raising this issue, but overall, it’s just another buzz word that we read about in the headlines, right next to “cyberbullying” and “blocking/filtering.” But why does it feel like a ghetto? It’s as though digital citizenship has been relegated to the bottom rungs of curricular society, clearly taking a backseat [...]
What makes humans happy is an appreciation of what they have in the world. In other words gratitude. By handing children so much, and insisting on so little, we are robbing them of exactly what we most want them to have.
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
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The inclusion of social media data in the algorithms that search engines now use to help people find relevant information online could create a “new digital divide,” educator and consultant Angela Maiers believes—“those with a powerful network and those without.”
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media.
A Corwin Product:The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia WorldCyndy Scheibe, Faith Rogow. The authors provide concrete, innovative ways to integrate media literacy across the curriculum. A companion website provides tools for analyzing all kinds of media.
Do you wonder why your productivity has dropped over the past 2 - 3 years? There is a time sink and its not Television!...it used to be.These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites
Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute (INI) and Web Wise Kids, a national non-profit organization and recognized leader in Internet safety education, announces the launch of an educational mobile application (app) that engages kids who are beginning to use social networks in a game about online safety when accessing social networking websites via their mobile devices.
The Internet provides tons of free tools and resources for teachers to use in their classroom. This handbook is for new teahers and/or teachers who are wanting to integrate technology in their classroom. The tools are both to use with students and use professionally.
The field of social media is a burgeoning area of communication, and one that educators cannot ignore. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Diigo, GooglePlus – these platforms for communication are not going to go away; and while there is a great deal of negative media surrounding their use, they can be harnessed to create myriad possibilities for schools as learning communities.
We are witnessing the emergence of something profound: Humans, historically divided by geography, culture and creed, are beginning to connect and collaborate on a scale never seen before.
The School at Columbia University built a private social network for its students, to give them a place to practice and experiment with social networking, without leaving a permanent trace on the Internet.
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