21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners

“Educators don’t care about platforms. It’s about the experience students have rather than the tools in their hands,” Bradbury says.

The choice of tools should be based on student activities and the best methods for engaging, entertaining and educating students, Bradbury argues.

“They don’t seem to care so much what device they are using. They want the technology to work and they want to have students be passionately engaged.”

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/what-are-the-skills-needed-from-students-in-the-future/

By Nick Friedman - Millennial teachers are returning to classrooms with the realities common to their generation, such as flexible learner-centered models.

Millennials have been taught to speak up and express their opinions. Their experiences online have taught them that opinions and ways of working can and should be

===>  respected based on merit, not their place in a social or workplace hierarchy, <===

or simply because that’s the way things have always been done.

Plagiarism is a serious offense. These 10 online services help you check students' text, or avoid getting into academic hot water yourself.

Dan KIRSCH: Student in my 7th grade ICT class are blogging about Internet Safety & Digital Citizenship! The following story via storify is a collection of my students blog reflections. We have been utilizing Kidsblog.org for this unit. Check them out!!!

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/practice-learning-to-learn-example-2/

Edutopia is one of my favorite websites. Edutopia features some great reads in the field of educational technology and I have included some of its resources here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning several times.