You don’t need to be a Dickens scholar to understand that for many teachers it is both the best of times and the worst of times.
Let’s start with the good stuff. Digital innovation is inspiring imagination. Educators from all over the world are learning how to responsibly blend technology into their teaching, while sharing resource suggestions and best practices with colleagues and their growing professional learning networks.
The freedom to choose an assortment of apps, videos and open educational resources that can augment – if not replace – traditional curriculum for any given unit or lesson plan is empowering. Learning how other teachers put these tools into their own practice via Twitter Chats, EdCamps and other collaborative environments is exhilarating.
It’s being used to encourage tipping at restaurants, receive cash gifts at weddings…even beggars are using it to collect handouts. The little barcode is driving China’s rapid shift towards a cashless society Source: The rise of the QR code and how it has forever changed China’s social habits | South China Morning Post A QR code…
Explore this educator’s guide to open educational resources for information about online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open alternatives to textbooks. Source: Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup | Edutopia Open Educational Resources (OER) are resources that can be used in the classroom for free. They are published under licenses…
American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that these college-educated employees would be smarter, more productive, and more engaged than workers without a degree….
The actress, 26, famed for her role in the Harry Potter franchise, said she opts out of agreeing to have her picture taken in an attempt to lower the risk of being tracked. Speaking to Harpers Bazaar she said: “For me, it’s the difference between being able to have a life and not. Source: Emma Watson…
Source: What is the cost of interrupting a radiologist? Interruptions change focus and time spent on case reviews, but don’t increase error rate — ScienceDaily [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ESEARCH says it takes 20-25 minutes to get back into the groove after an interruption. For a 45 minute class that means just one interruption can ruin a day. I’ve talked…
What Bode was saying was this: “Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.” Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more…
