Today’s students are digital natives, and they are using their devices to connect with each other all the time during school. A new infographic looks at just how many of them are using social networks, and what they are doing on those social networks during school. The infographic also asks how schools can harness this social force for learning.
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The new Khan Academy iPad application was launched recently and represents a step towards free tablet-based learning that some pundits believe is the most important education tool of the next 5 years. Will students one day be sitting down in their classroom reading animated e-books and doing interactive puzzles on their iPad? Perhaps. While the Khan app promises interactivity soon enough, at this point it is just a centralized collection of all their useful educational videos. I take a closer look below.
TED, the non-profit group devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, launched a brand new educational YouTube channel today. Videos can be discovered on YouTube and on the TED website at education.ted.com.
84% of colleges and universities now use Twitter to reach out to their students — that’s up from 0% in 2008-2009. With LinkedIn, it went from 0% to 47% in the last two years. There’s no doubt that social media is affecting the way schools reach out to students, and you can bet that students today have a different relationship with their institution than they had just a few years ago.
YouTube’s new channel lineup isn’t just about entertainment—the video site is also striving to be one of the top online destinations for education. They’ve got a great selection of free courses from amazing schools like Harvard, Yale and MIT; in December they launched YouTube for Schools, a new initiative that strips away non-educational material to give teachers and students access to educational videos; and this week they launched a whole new lineup of educational channels.
Are today’s students sharing their homework through status updates? Are they Tweeting their test answers? While it hasn’t turned the corner yet, the world of education is poised to be flipped on its head by the proliferation of powerful social technologies. An infographic looks at today’s students use of various technologies, including mobile devices, iPads and social.
YouTube for Schools offers high quality educational videos on YouTube for free, in a controlled environment. Students can brows educational content from over 600 partners, including TED, Steve Spangler Science, Smithsonian and more, without the distraction of kittens or music videos.
Augmented Reality (AR) has made its way to elementary school. PBS Kids released a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch this week. The app is based on the PBS Kids TV show “FETCH!” which combines at animated dog (Ruff Ruffman) with real kids and science and math education.
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Ever wish you could see what it was like to study Business at Harvard, Calculus at MIT or Law at Yale? You can, and you don’t even have to leave your bedroom. YouTube EDU, YouTube’s education channel, offers videos of courses at top schools around the globe in categories ranging from arts and humanities to education, business and law, mathematics, science, medicine, languages and more.
Getting ready for back to school? So are Missouri teachers. However, they will have to make some adjustments to lesson plans as Missouri adjusts to new social media law.
