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The Myth of Learning Styles
For many years educators were under the false notion that there were learning styles, and recent research from Howard Gardner, John Hattie and Gregory Yates shows there isn’t such thing as a learning style.
Copyright vs. Fair Use
April 22, 2014. Some of you are still probably not sure about the difference between what constitutes a copyright infringement and fair use. Well the post I have for you today might help illuminate the key differences between the two concepts. This post is based on a two days work reading a wide …
Let the spring break festivities begin!!!
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March 2, 2013. There are a wide variety of web tools that enable students to create surveys and polls to use for learning purposes, however most of these tools do require registration, something which drives away many teachers from recommend… Continue reading → Continue reading
Using Google Forms in Education
March 23, 2014. Tom Barret has recently updated some of his popular presentations in his “Interesting Ways” series. 80 ways to use Google Forms to support learning is one of the works Tom has relaunched and which I am sharing with you below. If you have new interesting ideas on how to use Google …
Great Tools to Implement Into Writing
March , 2014. As you probably know, Google Drive has recently announced the addition of add-ons to its features. These are third party extensions that you can install on your Drive to enhance its performance.I have been trying out some of these add-ons and decided to feature three of them here.
Amazing New Webtools for Teachers
March 8, 2014. Once every two weeks I feature here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning a list of some of the new educational web tools I have been bookmarking. These are basically tools other teachers and edubloggers have reviewed in their websites and blogs and which I think are worth …
Comics: A Powerful Way to Teach Writing, Reading, and Speaking.
January 27, 2014. Some of the animation links catalogued here will give educators very basic tools and histories of animation while others have the animation already created and set in motion, it’s just a matter of sharing it with students. Educators need to decide which tool is best for them.
5 Differences Between 21st Century Learning and 20th Century Learning
How will teaching and learning in the early 21st century differ from its 20th century predecessor? Some shifts are already well underway. These include the growing embrace of open educational resources and of courses collaboratively designed and developed by teams including content area …
Voice Comments for Your Google Doc!
In an earlier post I featured a free tool for adding voice comments to Google Documents. That tool is called Kaizena. In the video below I provide an overview of how to use Kaizena to leave voice comments on documents that ar…
