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At EdTechTeacher, we not only teach Web 2.0, but are totally entrenched in it. All of us at Tweet, blog, post, and share. Beginning in October, each week, one of us will post a new article addressing the theme of Leading Change in Changing Times. From four unique perspectives, Tom, Justin, Beth and Greg will tackle one of these core questions:

Why Change?
What Does Change Look Like?
How Do You Assess Change?
How Do You Lead Change?

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Weekly iPad Resources and Suggestions from EdTechTeacher (5/14)

In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. EdTechTeacher iPad Announcement! We have added a second session of our super popular workshop – The iPad...
Transforming Classrooms Through Technology – Justin’s Recent Articles for Education Week

EdTechTeacher Founder, Justin Reich, writes regularly for Education Week through his blog, EdTechResearcher. For the past few weeks, he has focused on the transformative power of technology as well as what actual change looks like. In MaKey MaKey Makes the World Your Computer Interface, Justin reported on a project from MIT to turn the world...
Social Reading on the iPad – from Greg

While there will never be a replacement for a paper book with dog-eared pages, hand written notes in the margins, a broken spine and a proudly worn cover with a hint of dirt and stains, there is an exciting new option to transform the practice of reading to make it more social and collaborative. Subtext...
Weekly iPad Resources and Suggestions from EdTechTeacher (5/7)

In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. There is still room in some of our EdTechTeacher Summer Teaching with Technology Workshops at Harvard University...
Creating Content on the iPad – from Greg

In a continued quest to find ways that iPads can be not only consumption, but creation devices, I recently worked with a high school psychology class (@alisonshaver’s class) where students were working in pairs to create children’s books about various psychological disorders. The app we used for the project was BookCreator. We chose the app...

Articles From Justin Reich's EdTechResearcher Blog

New Home for EdTechResearcher

I am very pleased to announce that my blog now has a new home with Education Week at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/. Same sort of content, but at a different home. Please come join me there!
You can’t tell stories about sunshine: How Facebook makes us better people

There are no stories in the media about the time a girl thought about getting absolutely crazy at a party, and then didn’t; instead she had a beer, chatted with some guys, danced a little, and went home. There are no stories in the media about the time a boy thought about making a terrible [...]
We’re Moving!

Things will be slow on the blog for the next two weeks, as I prepare for some big changes. A major education publisher is going to be hosting ETR. Stay tuned for more details!
Ask a Researcher: What’s Next for Early Ed and iPad Research?

Today’s Ask a Researcher Question comes from a doctoral student in Massachusetts I am currently a doctoral student in Leadership in Schooling. I am a technology specialist in an urban public school system in Massachusetts, and I am considering doing my dissertation on iPad usage as well. I read your postings about Auburn and am [...]
Ask a Researcher: Using the Wiki Quality Instrument in Other Settings

Here’s a question about using the Wiki Quality Instrument to measure quality in individual wiki projects: I currently have a course wiki (using wikispaces) between our preservice teachers and ninth graders in a remote secondary school. We used the wiki for a specific project, so it won’t fall under your longevity categories but I am [...]

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