Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Integrate iPads into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy with this "Padagogy Wheel"

By: Jeff Dunn You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington,...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Work, play, learn, and create with Google Chrome apps

With apps for Google Chrome, you can do things like create documents, edit photos, and listen to music. They're like desktop software programs installed on your computer. The main difference is that you use apps directly within your browser. If you use Gmail, Google Maps, or sites like Pandora, you're...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

15 free online apps to get your students creating

Creating is "Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing." -SourceCreating is at the highest level ofBloom's Taxonomy for a reason. Creating allows students to internalize...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Bye-bye textbooks! How digital devices are reshaping education

It’s only one statistic, but anyone who has spent any time with a student or pupil between, say 11 and 21, will recognize the number as, if anything, rather low – but this infographic from Schools.com, reckons that school pupils check their digital devices once every ten minutes...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

November Brainy Breakfast/Lunch & Learn!

Many experts argue that adult education has passed the point in time when we can ask learners to put away their mobile devices in educational settings. While many people see mobile devices as an enhancement to learning, some people believe it distracts from the learning...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Dr. Eric Cunningham presents on Active Learning Techniques

Dr. Eric Cunningham, Associate Dean for the Division of Adult Higher Education speaks out on Active Learning Techniques. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcZi5TCVvg&feature=youtu.be Check out Part Two of Dr. Eric Cunningham's Active Learning Techniques video here: https...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

How to solve the great edtech challenge

March 14, 2014 Pearson Earlier today our CEO John Fallon delivered the closing keynote address at Microsoft's Global Learning Forum. He used the platform to describe the power that technology can have to transform global education standards, why it has so far failed to live up to its potential,...
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