Languages, ICT, education

Twitter is a real treasure trove of educational resources for teachers and educators. It is one of my favourite web tools to stay updated about what is going on in the field of educational technology. It goes without saying that everyone of you has got a Twitter account but the question is do you really benefit from Twitter as should be ? By implication, my question is referring to educational and professional development benefits. Yes you might be following hundreds of bloggers and educators ; yet still unable to sift through the tsunami of tweets you have everyday.Tweeting is an art which you should master and the key to the mastery of this art is hashtags.

Sometimes Schools are getting wrong the notion of virtual education.

Nik Peachey says he often heard teachers commenting that they would like to use more technology with their students, but they have to cover the materials in the coursebook. So, he started thinking about ways we could use technology to quickly and simply convert coursebook activities to something more interactive on the web.

The document shows 36 different ways we can use web based tools to enhance the things we do in the classroom and make students homework options more interesting and communicative.

A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Tom Whitby, wrote a blog article, We Don’t Need No Stink’n Textbooks. I agree with his position, and was especially impressed with the list of components he compiled from Discovery Education’s Beyond the Textbook Forum.

Professor David Crystal, one of the world's leading linguistic experts, challenges the myth that new communication technologies are destroying language...

"To blog is to teach yourself what you think." (S. Blake-Plock)

People aren’t very good at media multitasking - like reading a book while watching TV - but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new study suggests.