10 Web sources on Educational Technology

1. Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning

www.ed.gov
This site discusses how 48 states support online learning. Virtual or online
learning is used for students; all their learning and instructions are earned
through an online school. It also talks about blended learning, which
incorporate both face-to-face and online learning opportunities. The strategy
of blended learning is to accommodate students diverse learning styles, and
to enable them to work before or after school in ways that are not possible
with full-time conventional classroom instructions.
2. Technology and Learning Create Fantastic Videos with wideo
www.techlearning.com
Wideo allows teachers and students to make their own tutorials, in class
presentations and much, much more. They are animated. And allows them to
breakdown topics and explain or demonstrate on the topics. The contain
sound and audio access. They are attention grabbers with easy to use
templates.
3. Teaching Tools Discovery Education
www.school.discoveryeducation.com
This is a website that is created b several types of teachers. It offers all types
of free templates to different exercises, such as matching games. Matching
games can consists of things like matching words (CD Rom, Double spacing,
caps lock) to correct definitions. It also include word scramble exercises
which are always fun. The website is a time saver for teachers, it allow them
to print out the material they wish to use.
4. ISTE Standards
www.iste.org
This website talks about the standards for teachers, students, administrators
coaches, and computer science educators. They are important because they
set bar for excellence, and best practices in learning, teaching, and leading
with technology. There are several benefits of it some are:
Improving higher-order thinking skills, problem solving, critical
thinking and creativity.
Preparing students for their future in the global market
Designing online learning environments
Systemic change in our schools to create digital places of learning

5. The Rise of K-12 blended learning

By: Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker
www.innosightinstitute.org
Website defines blended learning, which is when students learn away from
home and through online delivery. Also talks about how home schooling and
full-time virtual schooling will serve 10% of students at most.
Bleak budgets and teacher shortages create the need for blended learning to
rethink the structure and delivery of education. The potential of blended
learning allows them to learn at own pace.
6. 10 ways to get student-centered learning right.
By: Leah Levy
www.edudemic.com
Discusses different ways to get student centered, some such as:
Turn teachers into facilitators and coaches
Establish rules
Push students to apply knowledge
Get families on board
Offer extended learning opportunities
Divide the principal ship
These all represent the importance, fundamental, and exciting shift in
education.
7. How do special education students benefit from technology?
www.learnnc.org
Children with disabilities, technology can give access to learning
opportunities previously closed to them. It talks about E-reader, which helps
students turn book pages without applying dexterity. They also have voice
adaptive software; this helps students answer questions without needing to
write.
Assistive is not just for students with disabilities, but it can also be used for
students with motivation, academic skills, and social development.
Incorporating technology increases students motivation to learn.
8. Technology in classroom: Helpful or Harmful?
www.education.com
Talks about the positive, and negative of technology today. Technology
makes it easier to spend more overall time on learning. It is used to help
track students progress.

There are a couple of steps we should consider in a childs daily interaction

with technology.
Look for connections: used within the context or larger learning goals
rather than isolation.
Dont assume: base your understanding on reliable sources
Its all in the application: success of any tool depends on how its used.
9. 11 Great Video tools for teachers
www.educatorstechnology.com
This website gives examples of different types of videos that can be created
for teachers to use and what each one can do.
Animoto: create stunning videos without the need for advanced video
knowledge.
Vimeo is used to host and upload videos to share with others
Microsoft cliplets: type of imagery that sits between stills and videos
Wevideo: provide different editing features.
10. Educational Technology Isnt Leveling the Playing Field.
By: Annie Murphy Paul
www.slate.com
Computers might level the playing field, for the neighborhoods, young
people, children of concentrated affluence, and concentrated poverty. It has
been hailed as the great equalizer of educational opportunity.
Technology is increasing the gap between rich, and poor between whites, and
minorities, and between the school-ready and the less prepared, the
unleveling impact of technology. Also has to do with a phenomenon known
as the Matthew Effect which is technology for early advantages to multiply
over time.