Digital Learning Day: Resource RoundupThe first annual Digital Learning Day was on February 1, 2012. We've compiled some useful resources on digital learning to help you celebrate the day with your class.
Here are 30 great tech makeovers and ideas to help you get started:
Resources by Topic
- Integrating Technology into Schools
- Online Learning and Blended Classrooms
- Teaching with New Media Tools
- Video Games in the Classroom
- Working with Digital Learners
- Additional Resources on the Web
Integrating Technology into Schools
- 1. Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
Innovative teacher Vicki Davis leverages wikis, blogs, podcasts, virtual worlds, and other new media tools to connect students in rural Georgia to the world.
- 2. Five Steps for Implementing a Successful 1:1 Environment by Andrew Marcinek (2011)
Blogger Andy Marcinek outlines the conditions that need to be in place for a successful 1:1 implementation.
- 3. Using Today's Technology Tools to Study Yesterday's (2008)
A fifth-grade field trip from Ferryway School, near Boston, to the nation's oldest ironworks is captured with the latest tech.
- 4. Technology Integration for Elementary Schools by Grace Rubenstein (2010)
High-tech teaching tips for little tykes, from our Schools That Work package on Forest Lake Elementary School.
- 5. Transformed by Technology: High Tech High (2008)
High Tech High, a network of K-12 public charter schools, uses rigorous projects and portfolio assessments to revolutionize learning.
For more ideas, check out our three resident bloggers who focus on technology integration: elementary computer teacher Mary Beth Hertz, instructional technologist Andrew Marcinek, and high school English teacher Nicholas Provenzano.
Online Learning and Blended Classrooms
- 6. Blended Learning: Combining Face-to-Face and Online Education by Heather Wolpert-Gawron (2011)
Blogger Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes the case for blended learning -- a combination of both online and face-to-face education.
- 7. Should You Flip Your Classroom? by Ramsey Musallam (2011)
There is a lot of buzz around the flipped classroom model. Blogger and AP Chemistry teacher Ramsay Musallam covers the pros and cons and offers a framework to help you consider whether flipping is the approach for your classroom.
- 8. Schools That Work: The Brave New Breakthrough of Online Learning (2010)
Discover how K-12 students and teachers from across the country are using virtual technology to create enhancements to their learning experiences and new success in their lives.
- 9. Connecting Project-Based and Blended Learning by Brian Greenberg (2011)
PBL and blended learning prove to be two educational approaches worth combining.
- 10. Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity (2011)
The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.
- 11. The Virtual Classroom Redefines Education by Christina Wood (2005)
In this article from the Edutopia archives, we take an early look at online learning, and reports on how all over the country, secondary school students were going online for classes.
Teaching with New Media Tools
- 12. Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom by Ben Johnson (2011)
Blogger Ben Johnson shares iPad features to assist in classroom learning as well as apps to include in curriculum.
- 13. Mentoring and Coaching for Effective Tech Integration by Mary Beth Hertz (2011)
Blogger Mary Beth Hertz makes a case for why every school needs both a tech mentor and a tech coach.
- 14. Twenty Tidbits for New Teachers by Lisa Michelle Dabbs (2011)
From wikis to blogs to social media in the classroom, blogger and educator Lisa Dabbs shares twenty great ideas for new teachers.
- 15. Doing More with Less (and Other Practical Educational Technology Tidbits) by Adam Bellow (2011)
Adam Bellow, Outstanding Young Educator at ISTE, shares his thoughts on simple ways of integrating technology.
- 16. A Primer on Compiling Digital Resources by Mary Beth Hertz (2011)
An overview of the best organizational tools to help you keep track of your digital resources.
- 17. Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media Guide (2011)
Our downloadable PDF classroom guide is full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success. This guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.
- 18. Quiz: Tech Savvy Teaching: How Do You Rank?
Are tech tools improving your teaching or just a distraction? The quiz below will rank you on our technology integration scale and provide you with smart tips to extend your tech comfort zone.
- 19. Technology Tools and Online Learning Resources
Edutopia's discussion group about tech tools, resources, recommendations, including the vast world of online learning.
Blogger Ben Johnson shares iPad features to assist in classroom learning as well as apps to include in curriculum.
Blogger Mary Beth Hertz makes a case for why every school needs both a tech mentor and a tech coach.
From wikis to blogs to social media in the classroom, blogger and educator Lisa Dabbs shares twenty great ideas for new teachers.
Adam Bellow, Outstanding Young Educator at ISTE, shares his thoughts on simple ways of integrating technology.
An overview of the best organizational tools to help you keep track of your digital resources.
Our downloadable PDF classroom guide is full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success. This guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.
Are tech tools improving your teaching or just a distraction? The quiz below will rank you on our technology integration scale and provide you with smart tips to extend your tech comfort zone.
Edutopia's discussion group about tech tools, resources, recommendations, including the vast world of online learning.
Video Games in the Classroom
- 20. Using Farmville to Teach Standards by Linda Deneher (2011)
How teachers can use Zynga's Farmville to teach math, history social science, and English.
- 21. Reflecting on Video Games, Learning, and Nutrition by Pamela C. Howard (2012)
One principal shares the successful nutritional outcome of a health-focused gaming software.
- 22. Play it Forward: New Xbox Games for Learning by Alex Games (2011)
Dr. Alex Games (his real name), education design director at Microsoft Studios, describes new game experiences that bring both augmented reality and embodied learning into the living room.
- 23. Get Your Game On: How to Build Curriculum Units Using the Video Game Model by Andrew Miller (2011)
Get specific classroom techniques for building a game structure across different subjects.
- 24. A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool by Judy Willis (2011)
Blogger Judy Willis MD was a neurologist before she became a teacher; she shares some insights about how the brain responds to video games.
- 25. Schools Use Games for Learning and Assessment (2007)
Computer simulations are natural learning tools for a generation of video game players.
How teachers can use Zynga's Farmville to teach math, history social science, and English.
One principal shares the successful nutritional outcome of a health-focused gaming software.
Dr. Alex Games (his real name), education design director at Microsoft Studios, describes new game experiences that bring both augmented reality and embodied learning into the living room.
Get specific classroom techniques for building a game structure across different subjects.
Blogger Judy Willis MD was a neurologist before she became a teacher; she shares some insights about how the brain responds to video games.
Computer simulations are natural learning tools for a generation of video game players.
Working with Digital Learners
- 26. Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup (2011)
Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on cyberbullying, netiquette, and internet safety.
- 27. Project-Based Learning for Digital Citizens by Andrew Marcinek (2011)
Blogger Andrew Marcinek shares the real payoff for his digital literacy students: collaboration, networking and results.
- 28. The Digital Generation Project (2009)
The Digital Generation Project presents video portraits of the lives of young students from around the country who are using digital media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways.
- 29. The Digital Divide: Resource Roundup (2011)
The "digital divide" is still a critical issue in education and beyond, and is even more complex than it was a decade ago. Here's a roundup of resources and organizations to help educators understand both the history and the new landscape of the digital divide.
- 30. The 21st-Century Digital Learner by Marc Prensky (2008)
How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools.
Additional Resources on the Web
- Digital Learning Day (February 1, 2012)
- Digital Media + Learning: The Power of Participation
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Joan Ganz Cooney Center
- Digital Learning Now! (National Campaign)
- Common Sense Media
- New York Times Learning
- National Writing Project
- Figment Fiction EDU
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Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup
Thanks for this wonderful compilation of DLD resources. I think these resources tough upon all the latest trends and their necessities, benefits and pitfalls. I’d like to commend, here, the role of OERs like CK12 FlexBook and Khan Academy, for the great work they are doing especially for STEM subjects, I think these resources with their interactive, engaging yet rigorous content have shown the way for other to follow. And the OER revolution is the next big thing in education, providing new opportunities of learning to whoever wants them.
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If the event had not been so fantastic,
...I would say that this archive of tools for innovators and "re-thinkers" would be enough in and of itself. Thank you so much for archiving the day's resources. From the trenches in Tennessee, I can echo that the main tasks before us include 1) changing established and incredibly entrenched preconceptions of how education looks, 2) establishing new and firmly-fixed-in-best-practices ways to go about education, and 3) working out just how these new ways function effectively within vast, powerful, and authoritative systems not designed to allow them (much less to enable them) to function optimally. Funding, policy, and law are our dragons and only by keeping the essential issue in focus--the well-being and nurturance of our children as they grow through childhood into adulthood--will we succeed in taming those dragons. This was a wonderful event, and it helps me to feel the tide turning toward the good.
Growing Your Textbooks by Thinking Outside The Box
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Growing Your Textbooks by Thinking Outside The Box
Karen Cator, the United States Department of Education's (ED) director of technology, had addressed the move beyond the digital textbooks: "I think the trend is towards--I wouldn't call them e-books, I'd call them 'digital learning environments."
As Dan Meyer pointed out in this post: On iBooks 2 And iBooks Author: "No new technology is so novel we can't subject it to the question, "How does it change the relationship between student and teacher, student and discipline, one student to another?"
Textbooks or not, what we need is technology/ constructivist shift in classsrooms.