20 Surprising Stats About Technology Use In College
Back in my day… we didn’t have fancy things like iPhones and electricity. Okay, maybe just iPhones. I grew up without the kind of cutting-edge technology in the hands of every college student.
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4 Changes Twitter Just Made That You Should Know About
We wanted to let you know about a few quick updates Twitter just made. Mainly to their privacy policy and terms of service. As we’ve seen in the past, when major social networks like Twitter and Facebook update these things, you should take notice. Remember …
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!
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).
100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About
We’re always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. But I wanted to take a moment to bring a wonderful list …
20 Calming Apps For Stressed-Out Students (And Teachers)
The following is a cross-post from our content partners over at Best Colleges Online. 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 …
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. Ever since the concept of mobile learning came into the picture, instructional designers have been coming up with innovative ideas to create effective …
A Quick Guide To Managing A Classroom Full Of iPads
The following is a sponsored post by Datamation Systems, Inc.. They’ve worked with more than 10,000 schools to help deploy and secure classrooms full of technology. Want to learn more? Check out their ad in the Edudemic Magazine or visit the Datamation website here. iPads …
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.