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- - By Jay Reimer
"Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases, and scoring with girls."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Save your Favorite Tweets in Diigo.
- - By Robert Ogden
SMART Table interactive learning center - SMART Technologies
- - By Mr. Folkes
A+ Click Math Skill Tests and Problems for Grade K-1 K-12
This great maths site has an amazing collection of maths self-marking problem solving questions. Search by age level or topic. This covers both Primary and Secondary levels. Topics include numbers, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
- - By Martin Burrett
This is a great site for finding quality images to use in your projects. The images can be used for both personal and commercial projects and you don't even need to sign in to download them. The images have been uploaded by users for the public good. Upload your images to help others. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
- - By Martin Burrett
Very engaging!
- - By Kelly Dau
free apps available for all grade levels and subject areas. Also - tools for students and educators. Great find.
- - By Debra Spear
Ocean Fun Facts - Continents and Oceans for Kids
- - By Jasmane Frans
Publishing with iBooks Author - O'Reilly Media
iBooks Author is the first tool of its kind. Never before have publishers, authors, and content creators had a tool for making dynamic, interactive ebooks in a WYSIWYG environment. This book is intended to get you up and writing in iBooks Author.
- - By Marc Patton
100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education, By Degree Of Difficulty - Edudemic
- Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did - Forbes
"Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you have a baby on the way long before you need to start buying diapers."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Teacher Resources | Library of Congress
"The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations."
- - By Tanya Hudson
- - By Debra Spear
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Podcasting
Students and teachers from all over the world are learning from audio and video programs on desktop computers, laptops, iPods, netbooks, and other devices.
- - By Marc Patton
Follow these simple steps to learn how to create your own iBook and send it to the iBookstore!
- - By Marc Patton
Participants in this session will learn the basics of iBooks Author – from Apple’s pre-built templates, to creating chapters, pages, and glossaries. You will learn to turn textbooks into interactive training materials through Apple’s interactive widgets like Photo Galleries, Videos, Review Interactions, Keynote Presentations, Interactive Images, 3-D material, and even custom HTML5 interactions and animations.
- - By Marc Patton
Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Video Projects to Try With Your Students
TeachThought9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
- - By Rose Whittingham
- - By Kylie Walters
- - By Mr. Folkes
BookBub: Free and Bargain eBooks for Kindle, Nook, and more
Join our 300,000+ happy subscribers. It's free! Most major eReader formats supported.
- - By Kathy Fiedler
TeachThought23 Ways To Use The iPad In The 21st Century PBL Classroom By Workflow
"The iPad is not magic, and as many educators have found integrating them meaningfully is by no means a just-add-water proposition. The same applies to Project-Based Learning."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Teachers Roadmap to The Use of Twitter in Education
- There are several ways we can use Twitter in education and here is briefly a set of some of the most important ones that you need to keep in your mind while using this social network.
- Hold after class discussions
- Create an online community of students
- Ask questions relevant to course materials
- Start backchannel talks
- Create a classroom hashtag
- Use it for class announcements
- Get feedback from students
- Share interesting online materials
- Pass on information about events
- Have a Twitter account for each class
- Reward participation
- Integrate Twitter into Syllabus
How Canadians Are Integrating Technology Into The Classroom - Edudemic
- Ever wonder how a particular country uses technology in the classroom? There’s a new infographic that spells out exactly what classrooms in Canada are up to.
How Education Technology Is Like Betamax - Edudemic
- Now that we are all excited about integrating iPads into the classroom, what’s next? What are we all going to do in 18.. 24.. 36.. months when the next great device comes along? Are we all going to just start over? How do we, as educators, avoid being the next Betamax: that flash in the pan that couldn’t scale up and adjust to a rapidly changing market?
40 Creative Ways to Use Cell Phones in the Classroom
- So many ruminations on what smartphone technologies offer the wired classroom begin with some permutation of how, at first, cell phones are often the bane of teachers’ existence because they cause disruptions. This isn’t one of those ruminations. Let’s just go straight to the suggestions, shall we?
Why Teachers Want Technology (And Why They Can't Have It) - Edudemic
- Just 1 in 5 teachers say they have the right amount of technology in their classroom
- The biggest hurdle to getting improved technology? Budget.
- Teachers want new technology because it provides new learning experiences and a motivation to learn.
- Web 2.0 tools are the most-used pieces of technology in the classroom.
What do teachers want? A new study from PBS Learning Media details (in a highly visual manner) exactly what teachers want these days. From budgets to technology to web tools to increased engagement, it’s all here. The following infographic is definitely worth printing out and posting around your school. If you’re in the middle of determining what teachers, students, and parents want in your district, use this as a jumping off point to start the discussion.
Key Findings
Teaching with tablets: Will our children be using electronic textbooks to learn? | ITProPortal.com
- Ever the technology pacesetter, South Korea announced earlier this year that it's committed to replacing paper textbooks with digital versions in classrooms within just three years – and that means tablet computers.
- There is clearly caution about the use of tablets (72 per cent of schools want more evidence before adopting), but there is unstoppable enthusiasm; 82 per cent of teachers said their pupils had an interest in using tablets. Whether or not children are familiar with tablets and their touchscreen ilk isn’t doubted. Around 2.8 million children already have a smartphone, including almost a million – that's about a quarter – of eight to 12 year olds.
Is Texting Mangling the English Language? [INFOGRAPHIC]
"Do your OMGs and LOLs have you sometimes srsly forgetting how to write in proper English?"
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- Do your OMGs and LOLs have you sometimes srsly forgetting how to write in proper English? If so, you may not be alone.
Twitter Boosts College Grades and Class Engagement [STUDY]
- Christina Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, discovered that students using the microblogging service as part of their education are more engaged and have higher grades. In fact, she considers it “a new literary practice,” as she explains in her study “Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New form of Literary Practice.”
8 Great Tips for Education and Instructional Technology Innovation | Emerging Education Technology
- A collection of ideas to position administrators and educators to encourage and embrace innovative uses of instructional and education technologies in their schools.
Elementary Math Websites To Practice Mixed Operations/Story Problems - A Listly List
- A list of websites to help students practice using their problem solving skills to practice mixed operation equations. The list was compiled by Cindy Lawrence, 3rd grade teacher, at Barton Creek Elementary School. The list accompanies unit 8 of the 3rd Grade Everyday Math Curriculum.
Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center
- - By Carla Shinn
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online & Blended Learning
Keeping Pace report on virtual state school, online initiatives, and blended learning
- - By Mark Bucceri
Educational Handouts and Tips | Popular Education Hashtags | November Learning
Excellent article to evaluate PBL.
- - By Cindy Edwards
This is an amazing site which allow up to 4 people to collaboarate and play virtual instruments over the web in real time. Play a variety of guitars, drums and drum machines and keyboards. There is no sign up needed and you just invite other 'musicians' by sharing the link and begin jamming. Set to 'pro' mode to play using your computer keyboard. Requires Google Chrome. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
- - By Martin Burrett
Kids Online: A new research agenda for understanding social networking forums
Kids Online: A new research agenda for understanding social networking forums
- - By Marc Patton
Why Tech Training for Faculty is a Waste of Time | online learning insights
The Early Results Of An iPad Classroom Are In. - Edudemic
"Our school has been working with iPads for three years now and I can easily say that these have been the most exciting years of my educational career. While the decision to share these positive results is a direct result of the positive impact on student learning, it is also important to realize the impact this initiative is having with teachers"
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
I’ve never observed anything else that has had the impact on teacher personal learning like the introduction of the iPad.
- students having their own highly engaging and personalized learning device and their own space to learn in. They share better, problem solve better and most importantly learn that there is more than one way to solve a problem
- The best examples to depict these points would be in the areas of math and writing
Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : Shots - Health News : NPR
Let students struggle a bit and focus on the effort exerted
- - By Kevin Leinbach
http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/DecodingLearningReport.pdf
"this report seeks to analyse the use of technologies for learning around the world and draw out lessons for innovation in the uK education systems."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Live Report from the first iPad Summit
Without having attended the conference I had very similar ideas the other week. It's not just purchasing the technology but teachers need training.
- - By Jean Hino
Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus
Although there’s some disagreement as to whether distance education is more susceptible to academic dishonesty than other forms of instruction, what isn’t up for debate is the fact that for as long as there’s been exams, there’s been cheating on exams. The online environment simply opens up a different set of challenges that aren’t typically seen in traditional face-to-face courses.
- - By Jenny Staley
iOrganized: How a teacher can use the iPad to stay organized? | Reflections of a Passionate Educator
My new buzzword…and parents too…
Including parents in the ecosystem of teaching and learning with technology - a short blog posting -
- - By Donal O' Mahony
Gates sees this problem largely as a matter of incentives. Publications such as U.S. News and World Report reward colleges for the resources they spend on students and their exclusivity, but not necessarily for their results. High SAT scores will move a colleges up in the rankings (and so, it should be noted, will having a high graduation rate). Making sure your alums have a well-paid job, or a job at all, will not.
To begin fixing this problem, we need need flip U.S. News' logic, Gates said, and reward schools that "take people with the low SAT and actually educate them well."
- - By Jon Dorbolo
- - By Keith Orr
What Are Numerical and Algebraic Expressions? -- Virtual Nerd can help
Numerical Expressions vs Algebraic expressions tutorial
- - By Erin Sprang
Google+ for K-12 Edu is Now Available
Google+ is available to be enabled as an additional service for all Google Apps for Education domains, including K12 (primary/secondary).
- - By Marc Patton
Your Unofficial Job-Application Checklist - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"With more than 4,000 colleges and universities out there, no generalization about how academic employers view s"
- - By Joy Robinson
- - By Joy Robinson
- - By Mrs. Powers
- e resilience and the determination of the American people, we've begun to fight our way back.
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Thinking about BYOD » Derek's Blog
BYOD Matrix
- - By BalancEd Tech
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- lacks
- guardrails
- which makes transformational change
- ifficult
- In Finland, the goals of education are explicitly linked to competitiveness, research and innovation.
- nowhere in the UK do they really drive the terms under which schools are assessed.
- In England, the government has defined its approach as being based on curriculum rigour.
- This lack of a comprehensive statement of the achievement we are looking for schools to deliver is a key failing.
- best schools
- areas of high disadvantage
- define the outcome they need
- in the face of the complex and inconsistent demands the system places on them.
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- One such school leader told us they had taken a conscious decision with one group of young people to focus on five key subjects and some life skills, knowing that the accountability system would score them down for it, as it expected eight qualifications from all students at that time.
- Our system should reward schools making brave decisions which focus on boosting long-term outcomes for pupils, not punish them.
- It should be able to survive changes of government and provide the test against which policy changes and school actions are judged
- shine the light on whether the system is truly addressing the needs of all students, rather than just the few required to meet a government target.
- Focus on raising the ambition and attainment for every child as far as their abilities permit
- guide young people effectively on their choice of enabling subjects…
- thos and culture that build the social skills also essential to progress in life and work, and allow them time to focus on this
- Have a school accountability and assessment framework that supports these goals rather than defining them.
- social literacy
- a range of core subjects
- ncluding critically maths, English, the sciences
- effective use and understanding of computer science.
- ‘enabling subjects’
- humanities, languages, arts, technical and practically-based subjects
- equip a young person to move on
- o university, or to an apprenticeship or vocational qualification
- a set of behaviours and attitudes,
- An exclusive focus on subjects for study would fail to equip young people with these, though rigour in the curriculum does help
- ‘employability skills’
- Behaviours can only be developed over time, through the entire path of a young person’s life and their progress through the school system.
- right context at school
- A supportive culture, pastoral care and the right ethos are all needed to make the difference.
- a long tail of pupils failing to achieve the desired outcomes can no longer be accepted.
- enable all of our young citizens to reach the desired standards.
- conflicting expectations placed on schools.
- renewed system should be able to judge performance against the goals based on more complex metrics.
- judgement
- on overall culture and ethos, teaching and governance
- group of data points, including testing but also outcomes data.
- Development of a clear, widely-owned and stable statement of the outcome that all schools are asked to deliver.
- beyond the merely academic, into the behaviours and attitudes schools should foster
- basis on which we judge all new policy ideas, schools, and the structures we set up to monitor them
- Ofsted
- asked to steward the delivery of these outcomes
- resourcing these bodies to develop an approach based on a wider range of measures and assessments than are currently in use,
Dry Erase Practice Folders: Made 4 Math
Cool dry erase practice folders. Really neat, easy activity. Very differentiateable!
- - By Amy Roediger
How to Build a Successful Application Portfolio Management Solution « Because Process Matters
- 2. Facilitate collaboration between business and IT
- - By Jon Dorbolo
- 3. Don’t try to boil the ocean
- - By Jon Dorbolo
- 5. Build a repository of APM information
- - By Jon Dorbolo
- How to Build a Successful Application Portfolio Management Solution
- more often than not, these purchases happen in an ad-hoc manner within a specific department or business unit, resulting in a business owning hundreds (maybe even thousands) of redundant, overlapping, and ultimately, outdated applications.
- - By Jeff Woodcock
- - By Jeff Woodcock
- - By Jeff Woodcock
“Colearning” – Collaborative Open Learning through OER and Social Media | Open Educational Resources
Why do so many oil spills happen? - CSMonitor.com
"n brief, because there are a lot of tricky steps to get oil from inside the Earth to inside, say, your gas tank. Oil spills can be caused by the accidental or intentional release of any form of petroleum during any point in the oil production process, from drilling, refining, or storing to transporting. Oil can be spilled when a pipeline breaks, ships collide or are grounded (as happened earlier this month along the Great Barrier Reef), underground storage tanks leak, or in the current case, when an oil rig explodes or is damaged. IN PICTURES: Big Environmental Disasters Some oil was spilled when the Deepwater Horizon rig first burst into flames on April 20 in the Gulf, injuring crew members and sending a billowing plume of black smoke into the sky that could be seen by satellite. The oil rig, located about 51 miles (82 kilometers) southeast of Venice, La., then sank into the Gulf waters Thursday morning, creating concern that more oil could spill. Oil spills can also happen naturally: Oil is released into the ocean from natural oil seeps on the seafloor. The best known such seep is Coal Oil Point along the California coast where an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons (7,570 to 11,400 liters) of crude oil is released each day."
- - By Jeff Woodcock
- - By Jeff Woodcock
Technology in Kids’ Bedrooms Lead to Poorer Health, Study Suggests| The Committed Sardine
Interesting blog post about the possible hazards of tech.
- - By Benjamin Light
20 Coolest Augmented Reality Experiments in Education So Far| The Committed Sardine
Create Evernote 5 template notebooks with AppleScript | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
DAILY INSIGHT: What? My iPad can do more than email and Web? iPad productivity apps
I want to share many of the apps that I find very useful below in my productivity app list. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it ought to really help you get a great start on using your iPad for more than email and Web browsing.
- - By Marc Patton
Online Quizzes, Tests, Trivia, Worksheets, and Free Games - Quizzes.cc
This is a wonderfully simple maths quiz site with a good collection of activities for the 4 operations. Choose your category and get 10 randomly generated questions to answer. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
- - By Martin Burrett
This is a wonderful photo designer site with a range of web apps. Design a photo collection using the 'PhotoBox' tool which uses a range of templates by Upload images or finding photos lots of places online. Make a mini poster with the 'Thoughts' app. Design a 'verses' poster where you set two things side by side. You can also make collages, photo piles, edit images with PicMonkey and many more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
- - By Martin Burrett
Word Clouds in Education: Turn a toy into a tool
Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud. A glance at a cloud is an easy way to preview a passage, or to analyze text.
- - By Jim Tiffin Jr
VHS web page
- - By Mark Bucceri
This is a fun logic game where players must rotate the platforms and objects on the screen to collect tokens and touch the orb. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
- - By Martin Burrett
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- Spending on education accelerated still further after 1997, rising in real terms by 71% by 2010-11.
- UK ranks among the highest spending OECD countries measured in terms of percentage of GDP on education.
but we are being outperformed by nations which spend less.
- the challenge lies not in what we spend, but in what we do.
- explanation for the conveyor belt comes not from money, therefore, but from other incentives that schools face.
- Schools have become used to governments setting blanket targets,
- We should not be surprised that these drive behaviour – but not always the behaviour that the Department for Education wants.
- The percentage of pupils gaining five ‘good’ A*-C GCSEs has increased by 50% over the last decade.
- this should be an indicator of great success
- has been questioned by many commentators.
- When we look at whether the improvement on the GCSE metric is general or specific to those close to the grade boundary, it is clear that this measure is driving what is happening in schools.
- intensive targeting of resources on pupils just below the C grade and/or an increase in teachers’ expertise in ‘teaching to the test’ has been behind improvements.
- Whatever the explanation, it doesn’t inspire confidence that the rise in exam grades for average ability candidates really reflects an increase across all groups in mastery of the subjects studied.
- Narrowly-defined targets like these, based only on exam results subtly inhibit the overall education of young people.
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- If an acceptable level is reached, failure among a substantial minority is tolerated.
- At earlier stages in the system, similar testing frameworks focus school accountability on achieving a certain percentage of pupils reaching a defined average, rather than a focus on absolute attainment.
- it is possible to dramatically reduce attainment gaps in their primary school populations and raise standards on a broader basis than the UK has managed.
New Human Physiology - Textbook
Online physiology textbook
- - By dean reardon
CBI: We must drive change through a culture of expectation
" improve teaching and curriculum flexibility to effectively deliver core learning in ways which engage young people"
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- - By Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg
- There is a risk that the mistakes of the past – both teaching to the test by schools and micro-management of the school system through the means of exams and league tables – may be repeated in the EBC.
- nternational evidence from high-performing education systems suggests more formative assessment during schooling would be beneficial
- But an over-reliance on summative assessment can distort the quality of education by becoming the dominant focus of school activity.
- Removal of the currently over-specified and repetitive national curriculum from primary schools in favour of clearly defined goals on literacy, numeracy, science and computer science.
- more stretching
- judged by Ofsted
- Move the focus of our exam system to 18 and develop clearly rigorous and stretching standards for both academic and vocational A-levels, with maths and English retained until 18 for both
- A study
- should be commissioned to advise on the right balance of timing and the optimal mix between formative and summative assessment
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7046028297219302783&pli=1#allposts
- - By esther costal
A driving question is the most important element of a PBL unit « EduRuminate
"While I agree all are important, I feel the most important factor in good PBL is a great driving question. If you find the right questions then most of the other factors identified are covered automatically. How do you generate a great question and who is the right person to generate that question?"
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
- Questions generated for research were based on the provocation and a focus question why do teens make stupid choices? As the questions generated for this task were generated by the students themselves they found them intrinsically motivating.
- If you want students to have a voice and to have choice as well as developing a need to know about some area of content, then they should be generating their own questions.
Stimulating Science Simulations: Bowling Ball Basics
- - By Heather Kaiser
Ozge Karaoglu's Blog - SafeShare.Tv – Cool Tools #6
A safe way to view YouTube videos by eliminating the links to inappropriate links an comments. Also allows you to crop video.
- - By Mark Gleeson
eSmart Training June 2012 (with images, tweets) · rgesthuizen · Storify
"During June 2012 I attended an #eSmart training course. Whilst this aggregates collects some of the posts that I made, I have also added some of the tweets by friends at the #NCAB12 conference that was running at the same time."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Imagine exploring 13.7B years of history – from the Big Bang to modernity. Big history tells the complete story – with a goal of revealing common themes and patterns that help students better understand people, civilizations and our place in the universe. The Big History Project is a collaboration designed to bring big history to life for high school students.
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
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