While some outdated educators are hung up on making students sit, stare, and copy down their every word (by hand!), innovative educators know there is a better way. At this year’s #NYCSchoolsTech Summit teachers came together to learn about innovative ways to support teaching and learning but they weren’t focused on taking notes.
Of course, near-instantaneous knowledge transfer may sound too good to be true. Can learning really happen in 5-minute increments? The answer is yes, but there are caveats. For the learning to be effective, HR and training professionals must carefully craft their offerings and understand that not all training and development can happen on the fly….
It wasn’t Nineteen Eighty-Four that had the most to say about the America of the 1980s, but rather Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “In Huxley’s vision,” Postman noted, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history.” Instead: “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that…
So many of these tools are new to me. It is amazing how I use them every single day. Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. Source: 36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life @coolcatteacher This is such a great list of tools and apps,…
To open a Google Chrome web app I used to do 1 of 2 things: 1 way Open a new tab (shortcut key control-t or command-t) Either click on the link to my apps Click on the app I would like to launch (or scroll left and right trying to find the app. 2nd way…
