7 Unique Ways to Enhance Windows 10 With Microsoft PowerToys Microsoft launched the initial version of PowerToys for Windows 95 to give power users improved productivity and customization features. It returned for Windows XP but wasn’t seen again until 2019, when the newest flavor of PowerToys was made available for Windows 10. Filled with an array of utilities, PowerToys is designed to enhance and improve Windows 10 in very specific and useful ways. 18 must-try apps for the new academic year. – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS I am currently on the last day of my summer holiday and have started thinking about new technology I can use in the upcoming year. I have found 18 apps / websites that I am definitely going to try. 1) Evernote. I am looking forward to exploring this free app / website in lessons. It is predominantly designed for note-taking however it has expanded its uses significantly over the recent past and now you can take photos, create to-do lists and record voice notes.
Pedagogy and Technology from a Postdigital Perspective – Teaching Matters blog In this post, Deputy Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education and part-time tutor on the MSc in Digital Education Tim Fawns describes a postdigital view of pedagogy and technology in which technology and digital “things” are seen as always connected to the settings, people and practices in which they are situated… (Thanks to Gill Aitken, Derek Jones and Michael Gallagher for their input to this post). I have heard lots of colleagues over the years say that pedagogy should drive technology, rather than vice versa. This is neatly illustrated by Michael Sankey’s image of the horse of pedagogy driving the cart of technology. However, for me, this is a false dichotomy. Pedagogy and technology are not separate because pedagogy is not just method, and technology is not just a vehicle for performing that method.
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Tagxedo - Creator Processing ... Personal $ Svg $20 ✓ Up to $75 merchandises for personal use. Digital strategy in an age of remote learning A free guide to creating a digital strategy for your school has been updated and republished taking into account the new landscape of remote learning. It has been written by SecEd editorial board member Al Kingsley, who is chair of a multi-academy trust and MD of ed-tech company NetSupport, and ICT expert and former school leader Mark Anderson. The guide considers the purposeful use of technology, its links to pedagogy, IT infrastructure, finance and budgets, SEND, safeguarding, working with governors and a number of other areas. New additions to the guide in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown include information and advice on the challenges and solutions to remote teaching and learning.
Feedback is the lubricating oil of teaching and learning. Yet feedback in online learning – is its mostly absent... In this age of Covid-induced, online learning, people have rushed to Zoom, recorded videos and content that, far from being Blended Learning, is Blended Teaching. To be fair, some effort is made to get learners to do effortful learning, usually multiple choice questions or tasks which are returned to the teacher or lecturer. Unless you already have a good platform and have been doing this for some time in something like Teams or Google Education, what is so often missing is good FEEDBACK.