Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfing
Start with a cool and inexpensive water testing kit for schools or homes. Then it’s IT nightmares and how to solve them and 25 of education’s top people to learn from. On to successful social media traits, a summer adventure camp, increasing student choice, a Shelly Terrell quote, and Iron Man played on two harps.
Cheap Water Testing Kits / 6 IT Nightmares / Top Ed Leaders
April 21st, 2017Seven EdTech Tools That Make It Easy to Teach Writing Skills by Lucy Benton
April 14th, 2017Seven EdTech Tools That Make It Easy to Teach Writing Skills by Lucy Benton offers great tools to advance the writing skills of your students. All you have to do is give them the links that are contained here.
How to Stay Motivated in Online Education by Christina Battons
April 4th, 2017
How to Stay Motivated in Online Education by Christina Battons gives great advice for anyone who is trying to get a degree online and anyone who just wants to be more productive. If you are looking for a good writer, give her a chance.
Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes by Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Jing Lei, and Wei Qiu
April 1st, 2017
Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Joe: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes by Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Jing Lei, and Wei Qiu explores the fact that technology hasn’t transformed education as much as it has transformed other sectors. Here the authors point out the reasons and suggest a new approach.
Read entire post...What works may hurt: Side effects in education by Yong Zhao
March 3rd, 2017What works may hurt: Side effects in education by Yong Zhao tells about an important lesson that education needs to borrow from medicine. That is the study of side effects. Educational research tends to focus only on proving the effectiveness of practices and policies in pursuit of what works. It has generally ignored the potential harms. This article presents evidence that shows side effects are inseparable from effects.
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