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7 Highly Recommended YouTube Channels for Tutors and Teachers

By Scott Cronenweth On November 27, 2012 · Add Comment · In Education: Technology
The challenge with finding good YouTube videos to support learners is: how to sort through all those channels and videos to identify the quality content you need, without spending countless hours watching video yourself?
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Edmodo in Action

By Scott Cronenweth On November 20, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Education: Technology, Tutoring
Dubbed “Facebook for education,” Edmodo can be used in an almost endless variety of ways by teachers and students.
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The Teacher's Apple

By Scott Cronenweth On November 13, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Education: Industry, Education: Technology
As more and more laptops, smartphones and tablets find their way into college, high school and increasingly even middle school and grade school classrooms, more and more of that equipment is designed and sold by Apple. Why haven’t tech giants like Microsoft been more successful at taking market share from Apple in this growing market?
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Top 5 Free Online Tutoring Tools

By Scott Cronenweth On October 23, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Education: Technology, Teaching & Tutoring
As online learning grows in importance and popularity worldwide, new tools are emerging to support it. Here are 5 free tools that enable tutors, teachers – or even just well-intentioned friends and relatives – to interact with learners over the Internet, no pens or paper required. 1: IDroo whiteboard for Skype Everybody already knows about [...]
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Internet Forums for Teaching Materials and Lesson Plans

By Scott Cronenweth On October 16, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Education: Technology, Resource
Besides saving other teachers time and money by giving them access to top-quality instructional aids, TeachersPayTeachers.com and similar sites also provide a supplementary source of income for teachers who sell lesson plans, student data sheets and other wares online. In a few cases the income has exceeded their teachers’ salaries.
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Peer Assessment in MOOCs and Online Courses

By Scott Cronenweth On September 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Education: Technology
MOOC type courses, such as those that leverage the Coursera platform, are inherently conceived to empower learners to educate each other, such as through posts and responses in course forums. This form of “crowd-sourced commentary” helps create a learning community – so why not build the community even further by empowering learners to evaluate one another?
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Student Peer Evaluation: Plusses and Minuses

By Scott Cronenweth On September 18, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Assessments, Education: Technology
With the rapidly growing popularity of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online education in general, peer evaluation by students is coming to the fore as a way to assess student performance in online courses.
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Digital Textbooks: Are They Better Learning Tools?

By Scott Cronenweth On August 14, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Education: Technology
As students’ needs are better understood and addressed by digital content providers, the adoption of ebooks will undoubtedly increase. The students, after all, are the ones who need to study. They will choose the best learning tools they can get for their money.
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How Are iPads Changing Education?

By Scott Cronenweth On August 7, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Education: Technology
Do you use Apple’s iPad for educational purposes, one-on-one and/or in the classroom? How do they help students learn better, and/or help you teach better? What do you do with them that you couldn’t do with other tools, like a chalkboard or a laptop?
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Envisioning How Learning Analytics Can Improve Educational Outcomes

By Scott Cronenweth On July 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Education: Technology, Exam: ACT, Exam: SAT, Learning Analytics, Testing
In a broader context, learning analytics is envisioned as a tool for improving education in nearly any environment. One new company, Junyo, was created to “make learning data actionable and fun to improve each student’s achievement.”
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