A recent Education Week article (Whiteboards’ Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven) looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in the classroom, and used a combination of anecdotal evidence and a recent study to show that educators are split on the issue. This article could have been written about most educational technology initiatives – just replace “Whiteboards” with laptops, cellphones, iPods, Twitter, or any other bit of technology.
Here are just a few of the articles I found interesting over the past several weeks:
Tags:
21st-century-education,
banning,
blocking,
filtering,
iphone,
ipod-touch,
PLN,
potus,
professional-development,
teaching,
technology,
twitter
This started as an article extolling the benefits of the free OpenOffice suite versus the not-free Microsoft Office suite, but morphed into a more general rant on the importance of teaching general technology concepts, not specific software applications or suites.
Some good articles about educational technology, digital storytelling, school reform, and more! Plus a fresh batch of educators to follow on Twitter.
Tags:
21st-century-education,
blogging,
digital-storytelling,
edtech,
inspiration,
literacy,
powerpoint,
school-reform,
technology,
textbooks,
twitter
Here are just a few of the articles I found interesting over the past several weeks: