"My students do a lot of work on the Google Apps and other online platforms. A LOT. And while that is all fine and dandy (believe me when I tell you that I wouldn't have it any other way), it leaves my bulletin boards a bit, shall we say, lacking ...."
"Knowing how to communicate respectfully and appropriately in online spaces is a key component of Digital Citizenship. Despite all the hours that students may spend communicating with friends via text message, Snapchat, Instagram, or other social media platforms, they don’t necessarily understand the difference between formal and informal digital communications mediums ..."
"A recurring narrative in educational technology is that students are driving the change. They are using the creative and collaborative opportunities offered by today's social media and demanding that universities and faculty do the same. .."
"Students often find themselves uploading their content — their creative work — into the learning management system. Perhaps they retain a copy of the file on their computer; but with learning analytics and plagiarism detection software, they still often find themselves having their data scanned and monetized, often without their knowledge or consent ..."
"Students appear to have moved on from Yik Yak, once a prime app for anonymous gossip and racist comments -- a relief for administrators struggling to curb online bullying ..."
"These Behaviors and Characteristics May Signal That a Student is Well Suited for a Career in Technology Bill Gates had no problem knowing that technology would be his “calling.” He got his hands on a computer for the first time as ..."
"From Game of Thrones-inspired castle estates to spiralling pink robo-slides, this year’s graduate architecture shows offer a window to escapist fantasy lands ..."
"Educators know that when it comes to building relationships, class size and the number of students per teacher matter. While class size is certainly an issue for elementary school students, it becomes even harder for secondary school teachers who may have 150 students or more ..."
"Charlie Reisinger takes a look at a few affordable and stress-free open source software tools to help students and teachers make learning fun and stress-free ..."
"The government has asked universities to crack down on essay mills and plagiarism. Until students stop feeling cheated by the system, little will change ..."
"The meaning of Education has changed with the changing time. Now, how to read and write a language is not the real education. It is more than that and hence ..."
"This is the first in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Right now, this very morning, thousands of young adults in the United States are scrambling through the same minor hell. They've woken up to the very last in a series of half-futile phone alarms. Made, an ..."
"In the first installment of EduTech, we’re going to focus on something a bit broad and geared primarily towards current and (in some past college students. If you attend most universities, you’ll be given an email address that ends in .edu. In some cases, you’ll get that email on your acceptance to a university rather than when you fully commit, so you may have .edu email addresses that you don’t even know about ..."
Software is expensive, especially when your'e a student and money is tight -- but these eight apps and services can be purchased on the cheap with a .edu email address.
... It’s a brave new world, full of challenges and possibilities. But digital curation is one way to support students and teachers as they strive to make the best use of a galaxy of information. As students make connections between ideas, mine resources and make note of their value, they take giant steps toward speaking and writing with authority, the hallmarks of a scholar ..."
"If we really want to prepare students for life beyond school, we could begin by asking ourselves what pieces of our own education we are using now as adults. That is an edgy question ..."
"With digital content available in multiple formats for nearly all instructional materials, college and university bookstores are facing multiple challenges to provide the content desired by students and faculty, to reduce the cost of instructional content and to compete with multiple retail sources for this content ..."
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