Searching for Technology

I completely agree with this article and the fact that, “teachers want more Edtech.” (Steyers, 2013) This article also goes on to explain that teachers do want to use technology. But they just don’t know how to find it or use it. The article shares a new website for teachers. “Graphite is a free online resource that combines independent reviews of edtech products with rigorous ratings that have relevance and meaning to educators. (Steyers, 2013) 

Fortunately for us we are involved in the educational technology degree. Otherwise honestly I probably wouldn’t be using as much innovative technology as I do in my classroom. I have found so many interesting and useful programs that I wouldn’t have had the time or desire to find on my own. I now have my coworkers coming and asking me how to use these new technologies because they see me experimenting with them in my classroom. Now I can just give coworkers this website and hope it helps them. 

Steyers, James. (2013, June 26). Connecting teachers and students with the best digital tools. Edutopia. Retrieved on June 29, 2013 Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/connecting-teachers-best-digital-tools-james-steyer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29 

 

Summer Brain Drain

Wondering how to stop the summer brain drain from happening to your children or your students. Teachers, do you send home summer packets hoping the information they worked so hard on through the school year will stick? I know I do and when I send these packets I know full well my students won’t touch them over the summer. I even go as far as to bribe them with some kind of goodie I think will motivate them to do SOMETHING over the summer. Well blogger Jennifer Peck has come up with some creative, educational and reasonably priced ideas in her blog, “Summer Matters. How Parents Can Keep Their Children Learning All Summer Long.”

Peck. Jennifer. (2013, June 26) Summer matters. How parents can keep their children learning all summer long. Edutopia. Retrieved on June 27, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/parents-preventing-summer-slide-jennifer-peck?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Creative Commons

In the article, 7 Things You Should Know about Creative Commons, the most frequently asked questions about Creative Commons are looked at and answered. The article goes on to explain what exactly Creative Commons is and how it effects people, mainly educators. The article also explains what is important to know about Creative Commons and how anyone can use Creative Commons to protect and share their creation with anyone that wants to borrow it. I think this article is very informational and clearly explains what Creative Commons is.  (EDUCAUSE, 2007)


7 things you should know about Creative Commons. (2007, March). EDUCAUSE
Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7023.pdf

More Technology

In the blog by Ann Obrien titled, How to Build Support for Education Technology, she explains that there is a new push for more technology in classrooms. This push can be as simple as getting students access to the internet. Obrien discusses how the President is also behind this push for more technology in education. She is encouraging people that are already advocates of technology in classrooms to start talking about how important technology in the classroom is. This can be done by using inspiring language to hook the naysayers or to just get them thinking about how technology is changing the world. And if its changing our world, shouldn't it be changing the way our children are educated. (Obrien, 2013)

Obrien, A. (2013, June 20). How to build support for education technology. [web log post] Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/building-support-education-technology-anne-obrien

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