‘Instructional Technology’ Archives
Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology
The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes, many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. [...]
Apple technology to aid Pamlico students
BAYBORO — Pamlico County Primary School students will have some of the latest technology at their fingertips when iPod touch devices from Apple Inc. are delivered to the school. The Pamlico County Board of Education unanimously approved an informal bid on Saturday to purchase the devices and other Apple technology using part of a $1.25 [...]
TED Talks for Teachers to Watch
TED Talks provide viewers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary and ideas. The contents of many TED Talks can be directly or indirectly applied to your classroom practices. While you're on holiday break, you may want to watch one or all of these TED Talks. If you're interested in learning more about using TED Talks in your [...]
3-D technology is Becoming Increasingly Popular in Education
The automobile, moving pictures, personal computers, cell phones, and social networks—all of these technologies, once considered frivolous, have made such a huge impact on our culture that our daily lives would change dramatically without them. Could 3-D video be next? It's a question made relevant by new improvements (and falling costs) [...]
Google Wave Changes The Way You Communicate
Google will be sending out 100,000 Google Wave invites to users starting September 30th 2009. A Google Wave extension that facilitates real-time, collaborative development of business processes. Invitation will be sent to non-developers to its much-anticipated real-time communication platform. It’s not even released and it’s generating [...]
Social Media Revolution
Based on the Video above; By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web 1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed [...]
Electronic School: Thinking about the Future
By Roger C. Schank The future of education is online. The old idea that the local expert on physics (the physics teacher) should teach physics is exactly that -- an old idea. The best and the brightest can now teach physics to everybody. The old idea that teaching means standing [...]
