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6 interactive whiteboard tips

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Photo by David Goehring on Flickr In my last post, entitled Cinderella Technology , I wrote about the tremendous potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and highlighted some of the reasons why it often fails to be realised in school classrooms. They have been around for a long time, but IWBs seem to have polarised teachers.

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Things ain't what they used to be

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Most of the time, objects were simply there to be used to perform a task the user required. The next stage, according to this generation of Internet gurus, is to embed smart chip technology, so that objects can have a conversation with our devices. Not so long ago, objects were simply objects. Things ain't what they used to be.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

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Digital Learning Futures: 3 things about future learning from Steve Wheeler In the 1980s, we saw the rise in popularity of multi-media, which revolutionised content both inside the classroom and beyond it. It could be said that where multimedia brought the world into the classroom, so smart mobiles took the classroom back into the world.

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Five tools for global educators

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Recently I have been considering the changing role of teachers who are adopting technology to extend the walls of the classroom. These are a new breed of teachers who do not necessarily accept that the classroom is contained within four walls. I am sure others will have different preferences or recommendations to make.

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Fade away

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Often that relationship can be uneasy, as each educator comes to terms with how the new tools that are regularly introduced into classrooms can be used, and what each technology means to their professional practice. Technology, just like any other set of tools, is there to help the user perform. As such we should make it mundane.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: I Heart My Wiki

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And theyre just so much more flexible than writing in Word, particularly when you want to embed multimedia, etc. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th. Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: e-Learning Guild Synchronous Learning Systems

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Survey from the Training Modalities Report) Classroom instruction used 89% of time Synchronous learning is used about 60% of time Guild tool lets you break this down by specific industry (e.g., Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at th. Insurance Industry or Healthcare).