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The penultimate day of SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools focused on educational technology. The speakers discussed the role they see technology playing in education by 2040. They covered topics including pedagogy in educational technology, the value of connecting through technology, the need to reflect on how technology can make education more accessible, and participatory approaches to developing educational technology. Via Nik Peachey 
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Make no bones about it…Technology is a gift with a tail. It’s predicted that schools will spend $19 Billion dollars on technology in schools. This can range from a variety of devices, apps, software and various “STEM” tools but not necessarily servers, wires, and all that stuff in the closet. Despite this large amount of money invested in technology, the amount of money to support and integrate these tools dwarfs the amount spent on the hardware and software. I’d also wager that a majority of that “support” money is primarily for personnel needed to repair and keep the technology running, not to integrate it into learning.
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Information and communication technology has revolutionised virtually every aspect of our life and work.
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The prospect of stepping into a classroom for the first time to teach elementary, middle school or high school students can range from daunting to completely terrifying. For the new teacher, nothing is more important than being prepared, with strong curriculum as well as reliable strategies for overcoming problems in the classroom.
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Despite students' familiarity with social media, many struggle with more complex digital skills like evaluating a reliable source on the Internet.
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Leicester City Council / CC BY 4.0
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Google has launched Drive for Education, an extremely large, ultra-secure and free bookbag for the 21st century.
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Here are some of the key tools I would recommend to use with your kids and students to improve their reading comprehension skills.
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Padlet is a great tool that I frequently use in my workshops. One of the reasons that I like it so much is that it is easy to use. I also like it because it can be used for a bunch of purposes. Here are five ways that I like to use it. At the bottom of this post I have included a Padlet wall that I encourage you to use to add your ideas about using Padlet in the classroom.
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QR codes are on just about every product you might want to buy. Poppy Gibson, a Year 5 teacher and ICT coordinator in North London, has employed this massively-used technology for fun use in her classroom.
SLS Guernsey's curator insight,
July 9, 2014 1:14 PM
Some great ideas with QR codes. One of our libraries puts a QR code onto the bookmark that we hand out to our new yr 7's. It takes the to the library catalogue.
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Author Deborah Hopkinson reflects on the skills today's students will need in the years to come as they respond to complex global issues.
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Many teachers are using social networking in their personal lives, but not for teaching purposes because of concerns about negative repercussions, a new survey says.
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Author: Isabel Drury, Partnership Manager According to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students and 63 million primary and secondary teachers have been ...
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There was a thought provoking article about educational technology in a recent edition of The Economist called ‘Together, technology and teachers can revamp schools’.
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Plagiarism has reared its ugly head again – this time costing Mic News Director Jared Keller his job in February of this year. Keller was shown the door after gossip site “Gawker” revealed numerous…
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Preliminary research on how the Internet of Things will impact education may lead you to believe students will soon be connected to an iPad, RFID scanning objects and getting their own personalized curriculum delivered to their desk. It’s a dreamy new world of individually tailored lessons. It might be prudent to remember how computers were supposed to completely alter the way students learn decades ago. Yet anyone who took a “computer 101” class in high school may know tech in the classroom is not the futuristic bonanza we want it to be.
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Many school kids are sorely lacking in crucial skills that comprise another emerging concept called digital literacy.
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Supporting school staff, promoting digital literacy, transforming learning.
Leicester City Council have released four guidance documents and a range of practical information to support school staff in understanding, finding, creating, and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER).
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See how to use Hyperlapse for school videos to create engaging content for social media.
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I’ve sung the praises of Gooru for some time now but haven’t blogged about it and thought it was about time that I did. Gooru is great as a launch page for browsers in schools because of the content it kicks you off with. It might not give you the complete power of Google, but it’s not half bad!
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Social media has an almost unlimited potential in education--here are 6 ways you can use it in your schools and classrooms.
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This post takes a look at how online high school builds entrepreneurial students and prepares them to build a successful and meaningful life-long career.
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Schools are slow to address digital literacy when they see it as content to cover, not an everyday component of teaching. Jen Carey shows how to change that.
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Is it personality? Are some people born with it? Can it be learned? I am talking about REFLECTION.
The following ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS emerged out of the planning for this workshop: * How does student reflection impact student learning? * How can we embed reflection into assessment practices so that it is not seen as an add-on? * How can we make the reflection visible and sustainable?
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It was great to be included in this event.
In this article, speakers discussed the future of technology. Pedagogy in educational technology, the value of connecting through technology and other topics were mentioned. The potential is worthwhile to read.