Top 100 Education Blogs
Education blogs are becoming a means for educators, students, and education administrators to interact more effectively than ever before. They are also a great resource for those searching for the best online education programs to jumpstart their teaching careers. Technorati currently tracks 63.1 million blogs.
Digital Literacies in Transition – A Model for Transforming Graduate Attributes
Summary Learners have a common goal - to succeed through Higher Education and into the global market. This once meant attaining a level of academic competence, this definition has become fluid both in the eyes of the learner, those involved in delivery and future employers.
Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital School"
Matt Richtel's panoramic essay, "In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores." weighs in this morning by "Grading the Digital School." I found myself cheering and jeering alternately throughout this piece. Why? Because it so quickly confuses "standards" with "standardized test scores" and technology put into classrooms with "preparing kids for a digital future (actually, the digital present: it's here, it's now, like it or not).
7 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online
Yesterday, I gave a short presentation on digital storytelling to the folks in attendance at the Ed Tech TeacherTeaching History With Technology workshop. One of the points I made to participants is that when creating multimedia digital stories the best way to avoid any kind of copyright issues is to have students create their own sounds and images to include in their projects. Here are some tools that students can use to create their own sounds online. Using Aviary's Roc service you can create your own music loops or samples. After you've created your music samples you can download them, reuse them in Myna, or embed them into your blog. Below you will find a brief tutorial on how to create sound loops using Aviary Roc.
100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education
Yury Lifshits is working on algorithms and prototypes of new services at Yahoo! Research. Before that he was teaching university courses in the U.S., Germany, Russia and Estonia. He blogs at yurylifshits.com and publishes his teaching materials at yury.name/teaching. Education technology has become a busy space in recent years.
JISC Digital Literacies programme: A history of Digital Literacy in UK & EU #JISCDigLit — Digital Fingerprint
Sarah Payton & Tabetha Newman The EU describes it as digital competency. Lots of debate about what it is, but if we’re talking policy at institutions, it’s important to know what you are seeking to implement. Recommended books:
Educators Cite Research to Shift Ed-Tech Focus From 'Why?' to 'How?'
Published Online: July 12, 2011 Published in Print: July 13, 2011, as Educators Cite Research to Shift Ed-Tech Focus From 'Why' to 'How' Thousands gather in Philadelphia to share digital ideas, experiences, goals Philadelphia As Chris Lehmann closed the recent International Society for Technology in Education's annual conference, he implored the audience at his keynote address here to redraw the educational technology battle lines.
Richtel’s Rearview Mirror Misses the Mark
Email Share September 5, 2011 - by Tom Vander Ark 0 Email Share Matt Richtel wrote the rearview mirror story of the last decade—technology layered on top of how we’ve always done school yielding meager results at least when measured in traditional ways. The story of this decade is that personal digital learning will change the world. The Sunday feature in the NYTimes did a disservice to the field.
Schools, technology, test scores, and the New York Times
[cross-posted at The Huffington Post] Earlier this week the New York Times wondered whether investments in educational technology were worth it since most schools don’t see any concurrent improvement in students’ standardized test scores. That’s not exactly a new issue but it’s worth examining again.
