Education

Khan Academy iPad App–First Impressions

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Khan Academy released their iPad app yesterday so I decided to give it a quick spin this morning. If you’re an educator and have not heard about Khan Academy then it’s probably time to take a look. Even 60 Minutes did a piece just last night. I have also placed the 60 Minutes story in [...]

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Apple iBooks2 Fail or How I Wasted $14.99

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By now, most educators have heard of Apple’s announcement last week that promised to revolutionize the textbook market. I believe that digital, interactive textbooks are the wave of the future. It makes sense – newspapers, magazines and so on have gone digital and many are also interactive. Therefore, I couldn’t wait to try out iBooks2 [...]

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The Proper Use of Video in the Classroom

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The huge leaps forward in technology have given educators access to a vast reservoir of educational videos. In addition, tech advances also offer teachers and students the ability to create their own educational videos. However, when is it appropriate to tap these resources and when is it best to use another method of instruction? Better [...]

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66 Edtech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest September 18, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—66 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Twittering and Tweeting: A Sticky Web for Schools | [...]

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76 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest September 11, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—76 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Of course, today is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 [...]

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87 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest September 4, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—87 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Underreported Story: The Department of Education vs. Matt Damon–Underreported [...]

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I Love the State of Digital Education [Infographic] Except for …

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I woke up this morning and saw Twitter flooded with tweets about this cool new infographic from the Knewton blog entitled “The State of Digital Education.” I had seen some tweets about it for the last couple of days but something told me not to look at it. There was something in my gut that [...]

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59 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest August 14, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—59 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Why Would a Teacher Want to “Friend” a Student [...]

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87 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest July 24, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—87 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rentals – Peter Kafka – [...]

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91 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest July 17, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—91 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chestevery Sunday! Featured Lesson Learned: Influence is Personal – The Tempered Radical–If you [...]

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61 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest May 29, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—61 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured The future of Ed Tech is “Bring Your Own [...]

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U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Here is a neat infographic from MAT@USC looking at U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World. A lot has been made of the fact that the U.S. seems to get less bang for the buck than many other  countries. I am particularly concerned about the U.S. math scores since I started out as a [...]

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68 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest May 22, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—68 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured 6 Reasons Why Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom–If [...]

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Who Do You Listen to Concerning the Homework Debate?

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The debate on assigning homework has been a hot topic for some time now. I must admit that it made me a little crazy at times. After 30 years in the classroom I wondered if I had been completely wrong and tortured my students by assigning them homework. Until yesterday! I must admit that I [...]

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89 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest Mother’s Day 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—89 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! My “Featured” section is usually the very best of what [...]

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Should Teachers Make More Money?

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I just ran across an interesting video from CNN about teacher salaries. Usually these debates offer no real insight into the problem but this one was different. The topics included starting salaries, average salaries, who’s to blame and the role of teacher’s unions in collective bargaining. Christine Romans and Steve Perry are the debaters and [...]

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66 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest May 1, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—66 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! This week the White iPhone was introduced but for me, [...]

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