As new ideas on how to best meet the diverse needs of students come to the forefront from creative and innovative minds, it’s important for parents and teachers to provide a clear vision on what these ideas truly mean as far as home and school support.
Whether you’re an academic or just interested in building your Twitter profile, keep reading to learn some tips and tricks that can help you take the first steps towards using Twitter for coursework, research, building a professional network, and beyond.
The rumored Google Drive is here and ready for use. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to enable it so you can start doing offline editing of Google Docs and more!
If you’re like us, you love the iPad and want to deploy it throughout education. But up until now, there hasn’t really been a handy and easy-to-read guidebook for the basics of iPads in education. So we made one.
Social media resources like Google Plus offer a great opportunity for growth in education through collaborative work, communication, and camaraderie. Many of today’s universities have recognized this incredible potential, and have put G+ to work on campus.
Owing to the present difficult economic situation, financial literacy has turned out to be one of the hottest topics of discussion in the media. Being economically savvy is extremely important for making the type of smart money decisions, that’s essential for having a good standard of living.
Whether you want to use it as a study tool for your own education or bring it in as an alternative way for students in your classes to learn a subject, it’s simple and free to get started with Khan Academy.
If you love education technology and demand the best for your students / yourself, there’s a whole new (and cheaper!) way to get the new version of Adobe software. We were able to chat one-on-one with the Adobe executives and figured out how YOU can benefit from the big news.
You don’t have time to monitor Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Orkut, LinkedIn, wait, Orkut? Exactly. There are literally kabillions of social networks out there just screaming to get you in as a user.
In the era of digital everything, it’s often easy to lose some of the tried-and-true methods of learning. If you’re like me, you used flashcards a pantload while studying for quizzes, tests, the SATs, etc. But why? Why did you use flashcards? Because, apparently, they work.
Do you love scavenger hunts? I’ll assume you do since EVERYONE loves a good scavenger hunt! While that may be a bit of an overstatement, the awesome prizes that you could win an online hunt run by Adobe are the real deal.
If you’re like me, you’re always looking around for a new way to discover educational web 2.0 tools. Sure, Edudemic does a solid job of keeping you abreast of what’s new, fun, and happenin’ in the world of education technology… but we’re no app store. Lucky for you (and us), there now is an edtech app store! Well, it’s more like an app directory but you get the point.
So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. You could visit the Apple App Store’s education section and peruse the many offerings… do some Google searches to figure out what’s good… or just use this print-friendly image below to get started!
We’re chomping at the bit to get our grimy little hands on the new Google Drive. We wrote about it in our March issue of the Edudemic Magazine, featured it a couple weeks ago, and now want to start figuring out how the basically-real tool will help teachers around the planet.
With all the recent hullabaloo over Instagram and a $1 billion valuation, I thought it would be fun to take a look at how teachers, students, and anyone could use the service to learn.
![The History Of Learning Tools [Infographic]](http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/techhistory-300x192.jpg)
You’re going to want to print out this infographic and, at the very least, share it with your fellow teachers and even students. It’s all about the history of education technology and could be used to educate just about anyone on how far we’ve come in a short period of time.
When you hear the term ‘texting’ you probably cringe a bit. Or you think about texting while driving. Or maybe even how students will sneak texting in below their desks while a teacher isn’t looking. That’s not the case for 8th graders at Roosevelt Middle School in Bridgeport CT.
A teacher or education administrator’s time is precious. They barely have time to teach or educate at all these days. Tumblr is a great next step. It’s as simple to use as Twitter, growing in popularity (like Twitter), requires no technical skills, and is quite fun to use.
Are you still unsure about taking the plunge into Twitter? Worried it’s not actually useful for learning or teaching? Think it’s still just about people talking about what they’re eating? Whether you’re a newbie wondering these questions or a talented tweeter, there are always new and exciting ways to use Twitter.
Remember the viral Kony video? In Internet time, it was generations ago. But it’s still quite relevant and a teachable moment. In fact, the sheer response to the Kony 2012 video is quite interesting in itself.
