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EdTech: It Isn't Optional, It's Essential [Infographic]

EdTech: It Isn't Optional, It's Essential [Infographic] | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From edtechreview.in - September 18, 2013 10:14 PM

"How important do you think it is for teachers to use educational technologies in the classroom? During this school year, how often do you or your students use [insert type of educational technology] in your classroom? What are the biggest challenges to integrating educational technologies in schools?

These were some of the questions asked in a national online survey of teachers and administrators, conducted for Common Sense Media's Graphite by Harris Interactive in May 2013. And here are some of the answers from the survey."

Beth Dichter's insight:

To find the answers to the questions listed above plus many more check out this infographic. A direct link to the infographic is below.

http://www.graphite.org/edtech-infographic

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The Flipped Classroom: Getting Started » Copy / Paste

The Flipped Classroom: Getting Started » Copy / Paste | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.peterpappas.com - June 8, 2012 9:59 PM

Are you thinking of flipping your classroom? Do you see a flipped classroom as watching videos? Think again. Peter Pappas suggests that a flipped classroom is "really about creating more time for in-class student collaboration, inquiry, and interaction. It's also is a powerful catalyst for transforming the teacher from content transmission to instructional designer and changing students from passive consumers of information into active learners taking a more collaborative and self-directed role in their learning."

He provides a "slide deck" that has strategies, resources, lesson and more to help you make this transition.

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The 6 Best Online Bibliography Tools

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From edudemic.com - November 6, 2012 10:18 PM

Learning how to write bibliographies and correctly cite sources has become much easier with the many tools that are available to help students through this process. This post looks at six tools available with options that "include browser extensions, templates, and online citation builders (where you plug in your resource and the citation is generated for you."

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The Student as Historian: An Interactive TAH Webinar

The Student as Historian: An Interactive TAH Webinar | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.peterpappas.com - June 5, 2012 7:53 PM
This webinar explored four key elements of DBQ instruction using images, video and web-based audience responders. Download my slidedeck.

DBQ stands for document based questions. If you teach history, or any course that uses documents (which may be visuals) then there are an amazing number of resources included in the SlideShare embedded in the post. You will walk in your students' shoes as you learn "four key components" to document-based instruction:

1. The right documents.

2. Knowing how to look at them.

3. Letting students disover their own patterns, then ask students to describe, compare and defend what they found.

4. Basing the task on enduring questions, the kind that students might actually want to answer.

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