Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

How do you make students better online researchers? By understanding how they can and should use Google, of course!

 Google Forms is getting more traction particularly since the introduction of some useful features to its functionality. Now users can very easily insert YouTube videos into forms ; they can also integrate images and create awesome forms with a variety of sophisticated backgrounds. As a teacher, you will find these features handy as you can now create a quiz around a video and get students to exercise their writing, listening, and comprehension skills in ways that were not available before.

To understand why the flipped classroom is so revolutionary, we have to understand how it changes a basic task of education.

What does ‘the internet of things’ mean, anyway? It is a term that I’ve heard periodically over the past few years but explored little and never wrote about here, as it doesn’t specifically refer to education and there are so many other (specifically) relevant things to share and talk about. The short explanation is that …

Matt surveyed a small sample of school teachers to uncover their attitudes to social networking as an educational tool and to identify concerns that were stopping more extensive use.

Their responses made it clear that, while more than half of the schools use Twitter and nearly a third use Facebook to reach out to students, senior managers had serious concerns focusing on the possibility of cyber bullying and potential invasion of personal space, as well as worries over whether staff had the technical ability to manage social media properly.

Those same concerns will be familiar to many managers in higher and further education and they continue to hamper more widespread use of social media as a tool to support teaching and learning.