Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology

"If we really want to understand how effective educational technology tools are for improving learner outcomes, we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness. "

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“Why can’t I use this picture?” This is a question my students often ask whenever they are looking for images on the Internet for projects they create in my

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Technology Can Make The Learning Process More Transparent by Rachelle Dene Poth In my last post, Finding Out What Students Are Thinking: 10 Tools To Get Them Talking, I shared tools that can help promote student communication. The additional benefit for using tools like these is that you can take what [...]

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"This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced a disappointing decision. Sixteen years after they published their formal recommendations discouraging any form of screen time before age two – and 14 years after making recommendations to limit screen time for older children to no more than two hours per day – they are now recanting those recommendations, calling them “outdated.”

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A comprehensive guide (10 chapters) for teachers to learn the best EdTech tools, apps, blogs, tips, etc. handpicked from the web. Happy teaching!

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"You can think TV is in terminal decline or that it’s watched by more people, more often, for longer than ever before and you can both be right. Such a dichotomy is representative of the powerful forces for change in an industry where digitization is changing behaviors, business models, consumer expectations and well, everything. Digital disruption is existentially powerful, we can be scared by what Napster did for music, or what Amazon did to retailers, or we can embrace the new opportunities that having a proliferation of screens and pervasive, fast connectivity provides."

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