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It’s Time To Get Report Cards For Your Education Technology
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It’s Time To Get Report Cards For Your Education Technology

How’s this for the biggest no-brainer of 2012: If you want to know what’s working – or not – in classrooms, ASK TEACHERS!

10 hours, 2 minutes ago

DIY Learning: How Maker Faire Is Innovating Education
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DIY Learning: How Maker Faire Is Innovating Education

I was going to call this post ‘Tinkering Teachers’ but that sounded a bit silly. But it’s accurate. This weekend, hundreds of teachers, educators, and administrators will be gathering in San Mateo, CA for Maker Faire, the annual gathering of all things Do-It-Yourself (DIY).

13 hours, 3 minutes ago

20 Calming Apps For Stressed-Out Students (And Teachers)
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20 Calming Apps For Stressed-Out Students (And Teachers)

The picture of college that we get from Hollywood is usually one where everyone is happy, carefree, and laid back, giving no thought to tomorrow. If only college were actually like that. While university days should be some of the most exciting and enjoyable times in a person’s life, there’s no getting around the fact that there is immense pressure to achieve academically.

1 day, 11 hours ago

How To Develop Your Own Mobile Learning Tools
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How To Develop Your Own Mobile Learning Tools

Mobile learning, or m-learning, refers to any learning intervention that is carried out through the use of mobile devices and wireless technology.

1 day, 13 hours ago

How To Share Files Through Facebook Groups
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How To Share Files Through Facebook Groups

File-sharing for facebook groups is finally here. But is it easy to use–and should you use it?

2 days, 13 hours ago

To Flip Or Not Flip?
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To Flip Or Not Flip?

To flip or not to flip? That is not the essential question. In assessing the optimal classroom dynamics, I would argue that we need to take a good look at what our classrooms look like right now, what activities our students gain the most from, what we wished we had more time for, and what things about our class we wish we could eliminate.

4 days, 14 hours ago

Thank You Teachers!
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Thank You Teachers!

Teacher Appreciation Week is nearly over and there’s something just..wrong… about that. It shouldn’t be a single week of the year. It should be every week. We were going to lobby the federal government to try and make this dream a reality but we seemed to have misplaced our billions of dollars.

5 days, 7 hours ago

20 Reasons You Should Try Out Google+
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20 Reasons You Should Try Out Google+

There may be just 100 million users on Google+ so far, but it’s still a powerful network filled with some top-notch content. If you’re looking to be inspired by fellow teachers from around the world, Google+ may be for you!

5 days, 13 hours ago

INFOGRAPHIC: What it takes to get into college
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INFOGRAPHIC: What it takes to get into college

While there is no clear-cut pathway to college, a recent survey of college admission officers indicate that some factors do matter more than others.

6 days, 6 hours ago

The Fascinating State Of The Internet
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The Fascinating State Of The Internet

There has been a steady flow of facts, figures, infographics, and videos pouring out across the web lately that attempt to describe just how vast the Internet is. Honestly, it’s a tough job. The Internet continues to explode every day and is still accelerating the rate of expansion.

6 days, 12 hours ago

How To Integrate Live Tweets Into Your Presentations
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How To Integrate Live Tweets Into Your Presentations

I’ve seen plenty of presentations that try to incorporate social media, polling, and other interactive tools. It’s all an effort to engage the audience and keep the conversation going. But usually these presentations don’t do it right.

6 days, 14 hours ago

The Perfect Shoes For Any Social Media Lover
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The Perfect Shoes For Any Social Media Lover

If you’re addicted to social media, love integrating YouTube into your classroom, or just wax nostalgic over Google Buzz, then these shoes are for you. Designer Lumen Bigott created renderings of these shoes (not yet available for purchase) as an homage to the biggest social networks.

1 week ago

How Bill Gates Thinks You Make Great Teachers
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How Bill Gates Thinks You Make Great Teachers

Bill and Melinda Gates have set their sights on education over the last few years and have thrown plenty of money into funding new and exciting tools for teachers. But what does Bill actually think it takes to make a great teacher?

1 week ago

7 Habits Of Highly Ineffective Educators
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7 Habits Of Highly Ineffective Educators

What do you do when students first arrive for the day? Do you usher them in and take attendance? Or do you start the learning process before they even get through the door?

1 week, 1 day ago

INFOGRAPHIC: eReader Statistics Show Some Surprises
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INFOGRAPHIC: eReader Statistics Show Some Surprises

In lieu of explosive eReader growth, this infographic shows some statistical surprises about our collective reading habits.

1 week, 1 day ago

Facebook Continues Quest to Dominate the World. And Blouses, too.
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Facebook Continues Quest to Dominate the World. And Blouses, too.

For all of its exponential, culture-shifting growth, social media has strangely kept itself confined to the kinds of electronic screen you’re staring at right now. But thanks to some creative-thinking, those old limits are fading.

1 week, 1 day ago

20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content
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20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content

What’s the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? Teachers, students, and admins alike don’t have the time to properly visit every site (except Edudemic of course :) so they turn to curation tools. Below is a simple list of my favorites. Hope they help de-clutter your life at least a little bit.

1 week, 1 day ago

Got 10 Seconds? Thank A Teacher.
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Got 10 Seconds? Thank A Teacher.

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and we wanted to give everyone a quick, fun, and simple way to quickly say thanks to all the amazing teachers out there. Terry and I actually wanted to hire skywriting planes to spell out ‘Thank You Teachers’ over every city in the world but that proved to be a bit costly.

1 week, 2 days ago

Adobe CS6 Now Available: Creative Cloud Coming Friday
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Adobe CS6 Now Available: Creative Cloud Coming Friday

Just a quick heads up that Adobe just officially made CS6 available for purchase. The highly-anticipated (and cheaper) Creative Cloud is coming online shortly. Here are price breakdowns and a whole lot more for Adobe CS6 and for Creative Cloud in case you’re thinking about upgrading.

1 week, 2 days ago

How Big is 7 Billion?
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How Big is 7 Billion?

How big is 7 billion? That’s the question National Geographic set out to answer. And while the answer would be “not very” if you’re talking about bacteria, when start discussing people, the scale changes quite a bit.

1 week, 2 days ago

12 Ways To Use Google Search In School, By Degree Of Difficulty
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12 Ways To Use Google Search In School, By Degree Of Difficulty

I’ve been completely obsessed with Google’s new mini-site devoted to finding better ways to incorporate proper web searches into the classroom. Dubbed ‘Search Education,’Google’s new site has an array of lesson plans, videos, concept maps, and other tools designed to help any educator properly integrate Google.

1 week, 3 days ago

INFOGRAPHIC: Ivy League Schools Go Head-to-head–on Facebook
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INFOGRAPHIC: Ivy League Schools Go Head-to-head–on Facebook

Ever wonder how centuries of academic prowess translate to social media clout? Wonder no more.

1 week, 4 days ago

Sal Khan & LeBron James Talk Free Throws
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Sal Khan & LeBron James Talk Free Throws

What are the chances of making 10 consecutive free throws? Sal Khan and LeBron James team up to respond.

1 week, 5 days ago