Infographic on Technology in the Classroom - What Teachers Want

An interesting infographic from PBS on what teachers want for technology in the classroom:

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10 Essential Educational Resources for Teachers - my list

11 Awesome Infographics about Space

Space...the Final Frontier...ok, it's a little corny, but space has always captured the imagination of people. It's unknown, it's cool, it's in all the great science fiction movies. But, how much do people really know about space and the space program?

Waylou has 11 Infographics on Space that have some great information and are an excellent resource for teachers to use and share.

My favorite is the one about the Space Shuttle.

Learn about data visualization software.

Check them out here: http://walyou.com/space-infographics/



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Lots of free educational resources from NASA

Anatomy of a Teacher - infographic with interesting data on teachers and schools

Anatomy of a Teacher is an interesting infographic with data on teachers - percentage female vs. male, public vs. private schools, student/teacher ratios, salary, working hours and more. Take a look and see if the data matches your situation and share it with others.

Source: http://mastersinteaching.org/infographic-anatomy-of-a-teacher/ 

Great cheat sheet on Ed Tech topics and terminology

Edudemic has a great infographic and cheat sheet on educational technology terminology from Boundless. This will help new and veteran teachers with some of the terminology being used in education.

Check it out:

Great infographic with mobile productivity tips and tools

We use our mobile devices more and more for work, business, school and more. Tony Vincent has a great site, Learning in Hand, where he has been posting information, tips and resources about using mobile device in learning for years, starting with the Palm PDA's.

He created a great infographic with his tips and tools for mobile productivity. It has some great information for teachers and students, and anyone else for that matter, for being more productive using mobile devices.

Here is the infographic and you can download it from his site. Also check out the other great resources his site has.

Infographic on 21st Century Classroom - what do you think?

I was sent the following infographic about the "21st Century Classroom" this week. As I was looking at it, I found some interesting statistics and agree that Project based learning, social media, and technology are all important for education.

What do you think about the information presented below?


Components of a 21st Century Classroom - An infographic by the team at Open Colleges

7 Ideas for Students on How to Spend their Summer

Summer is almost upon us and many students (and teachers) are looking forward to some rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation. Most teachers will be working a second job and taking classes or attending professional development, and working on their lesson for next year. Many students will be working part time jobs and seniors will be getting ready for college.

Here are some ideas for students on how to spend their summer. I think these are great ideas. I'd add two more: read a good book and recharge your batteries.



Presented By: BachelorsDegreeOnline.com

Powerful Learning Practice - Day in the Life of Connected Educator

Powerful Learning Practice is a site that provides professional development and resources for teachers to implement new technologies and pedagogy to create "21st Century Classrooms." There are some good resources on the site.

They have an article entitled "A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator – Using social media in 21st century classrooms" that looks at how teachers use social media and other Web 2.0 tools to improve teaching and learning.

The infographic is interesting and has ideas for using social media in the classroom. It follows a teacher through her day as she uses social media sites and Web 2.0 resources throughout her day as an educator. Teachers can get some great ideas from this for their own use.

It can be found at their site:
http://plpnetwork.com/2012/05/07/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-connected-educator-using-social-media-throughout-your-day/

Related:

Social Media in Education - connect, share, learn, communicate and more
Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook - a nice comparison
Which Social Network should you use? Infographic on which to use when.

Edmodo - free social learning platform expands and improves

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have

10 Important Skills Students need for the Future

CISPA - What is it? Links and Infographic

CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act) recently passed in congress in the House. It is a bill that allows the US Government and businesses to work together and share information on cyberthreats. It has been said that this bill is too vague and will allow too much information to be shared to the government. Others say it is a needed law.

In either case, it's something that we should learn more about and discuss with our students.

Here are some links:

CISPA Wikipedia article

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act: CISPA explained

US House passes controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill, now on to the Senate

Below is an infographic from Paralegal.net that explains CISPA in more detail.

Infographic - What do High School Students want from mobile tech

    

ASCD (Association for Curriculum and Development) has taken statistics from a variety of sources and coalates it into a nice infographic about students, mobile learning, learning methods and what high school students want in mobile learning.

The research shows that banning mobile devices in school does not work and that schools should be embracing these devices and helping students use them for learning. Some of the stats:

63 percent of students attending schools carry their mobile devices despite the rules (probably conservative)
63 percent of students want online textbooks with communication facilities;
40 percent want online texts with collaboration tools.
43 percent stated social media is one of the main ways they communicate with friends online.
62 percent of student use the Internet as a new source; whereas 17 percent use it to gain knowledge concerning topics generally difficult to talk about — such as drug use.

I am one of those teachers who hastes the rule banning these devices. I've allowed my students to use them in class before and, along with some other faculty, is pushing to change the rules. 

Check out the infographic below for more data on this topic.

Source:  ZDNet - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/what-do-high-school-students-want-from-mobile-tech-infographic/15843


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Android Smartphone and Apps I use as an educator

Android for Education resources and apps