Month: February 2014
Educational Technology Development Stages for Kids Infographic
See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency The Educational Technology Development Stages for Kids Infographic walks you through the educational technology milestones for different development stages. See on elearninginfographics.com
Read More »Blogs and Labels are about Information Literacy
See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency My Middle School is using blogger (part of Google) as a platform for our students’ blogfolios. The blogfolio (term coined by Andrea Hernandez) is part blog and part digital portfolio. Students not only showcase their best work, but…
Read More »10 Visual Literacy Strategies
See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Visual literacy is a staple of 21st century skills, which state that learners must “demonstrate the ability to interpret, recognize, appreciate and understand information presented through visible actions, objects and symbols, natural or…
Read More »The Busy Teacher’s Quick Guide To Blended Learning – Edudemic
See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Blended learning is a combination of some face-to-face teaching and some online teaching. It is a great way for teachers to bring online components into the forefront, rather than just using digital…
Read More »We need to prepare students for their future, not ours
See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency I will no longer defend or debate EdTech as some radical idea in schools. I can no longer waste my efforts on the “value of EdTech debate”. The simple fact is that…
Read More »Implementing a university-wide change programme to promote blended learning: Where do we start?
See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Change is rarely easy, and universities are notoriously conservative institutions which are inherently cautious. The implementation of a change programme involving technology requires a delicate balance in order to bring about…
Read More »35 Psychology-Based Learning Strategies For Deeper Learning
Have you ever considered letting your students listen to hardcore punk while they take their mid-term exam? Decided to do away with Power Point presentations during your lectures? Urged your students to memorize more in order to remember…
Read More »15+ Awesome Google+ Tricks You Might Not Know About
See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Google is slowly but surely improving Google+ and trying to bringthe social network to the masses. Yet some of Google+’s best features are less than obvious for both avid Google Plussers…
Read More »Who are the Learning Technologists? – Abridged Version
The first thing you soon discover is that there are many labels or slogans for learning technology; these include educational technology, academic technology and instructional technology to name but a few. via the accidental technologist » Blog Archive…
Read More »Promoting a Culture of Learning
See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Learning is a culture. It starts as a culture with the students as human beings needing to understand their environment. And it ends as a culture with students taking what we…
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