Tech Tools Made Simple
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SuperTeacherTools.com is dedicated to providing technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. In the site, you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators.
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by Brad Flickinger
A few months ago I took a survey of my elementary kids to see what kind of mobile technology they had at home and it turned out that 53% of my students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades had iPads and 82% had iPods! With over half of my students having iPads, there is no doubt that soon they will be bringing these devices to school — so it go me thinking…
How do I teach students with iPads?
Check out Brad’s 5 part series that began on Jan 4th, CLICK HERE
I subscribe to numerous blog feeds from educators , one is The Spicy Learning Blog and the other day I posted a comment and subscribed to the follow-up comments for that article. I was curious. Today a student in a class at University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama USA, commented and gave a link to her blog as well as the course blog site. WOW!!
EDM 310 Class BlogCollege of Education
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama USA
Dr. John H Strange, Lead Professor
“I don’t know. Lets find out”
“Bring your brain. And turn it on!”
“Questions Are More Important Than ‘Answers’ “
By Suzie Boss
Suzie Boss (@suzieboss on Twitter) is a journalist and author of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age. She’s also a regular blogger on Edutopia.
Whether it’s with a moment of silence or an outpouring of service, schools across the country are considering how to help their students observe the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. A wide range of resources are available to assist educators as they seek learning opportunities around this emotion-charged date.
Read the full story, CLICK HERE
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones, to power up their iPads, and to log in to Twitter.
Technology’s role in the classroom has been widely debated: does it simply feed an addiction to a mobile lifestyle, or does it give otherwise shy students a way to find their voices? A national survey released in April by Pearson Learning Solutions found that only “2 percent of college faculty members had used Twitter in class, and nearly half thought that doing so would negatively affect learning,” reported The New York Times. However, at the same time, a recent survey by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth found that “98 percent of higher ed institutions are on Facebook, and 84 percent are on Twitter,” said InsideHigherEd.com.
Read the full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/21/high-tech-schools-innovative-tech-in-classroom_n_925450.html#s326592&title=iPads
