5 Innovative iPad Apps That Will Evolve Your Classroom
As a teacher, I enjoy looking for new ways to engage students. Some methods employed may be novel; I know their effectiveness will wear off over time. Other methods are structured around solid...
View ArticleKinectEDucation: Innovating Education With Open Source, Gesture-Based Learning
KinectEDucation is a community-driven resource for developers, teachers, students, enthusiasts, and any other education stakeholder to promote the use of open source Kinect applications in classrooms....
View ArticleTeacher’s Guide to Kinect and Gesture-Based Learning
Kinect is more than a gaming device; realistically, it’s an input device that can facilitate gaming (think of it like the mouse and keyboard). With a few easy tweaks that anyone can do, we can use this...
View ArticleNew! Warehouse of Mobile Augmented Reality Resources for Education
With the emergence of the mobile augmented reality app Aurasma, user-generated mobile AR is not only possible; it’s downright easy. We can amplify its effectiveness in education by providing a...
View ArticleReflections of 2011 Apple Distinguished Educator Institute
It was such an honor to attend the 2011 Apple Distinguished Educator Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Being in a room full of passionate and innovative educators within their disciplines was incredibly...
View ArticleCSCOPE Conference: Linking Twitter to CSCOPE
What a great group of passionate educators! My presentation at the CSCOPE conference in San Antonio, TX was “Linking Twitter to CSCOPE.” During this session, we talked about the power of collaboration...
View ArticleMobile Devices in Education: The Progression of Innovation
“Exploring the adjacent possible can be as simple as opening a door. But sometimes you need to move a wall.” – Steven Johnson In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, author...
View ArticleKinect in Education Contest: What Will You Create?
With Kinect, classroom instruction can be adapted to promote classroom mobility and the overall well-being of our children, as opposed to conditioning students to unnecessary classroom routines. While...
View ArticleMobile Devices in Education: Innovate by Making Little Bets
“Discovery doesn’t happen in a vacuum, which is why doing things, however imperfectly at first, opens us up creatively.” – Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries...
View ArticleInnovation in Education: Building Capacity for Renewed Perspectives
Many teacher preparation programs approach education from a perspective that incoming educators are already familiar with. Even with college courses that teach modern pedagogical approaches, sixteen...
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