EDTech Talk Round Table 35 |5 Best Excuses for Not Using Tech

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the five best excuses for not using tech and share their edtech tips.

Articles of the Week

1. SAMR – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything schrockguide.net
   Kathy Schrock is the one person you’ll need if you only have one person in Ed Tech to go to.
2. The student of 2024: two versions of campus life in 10 years’ time | The Irish Time – Sat, Feb 15, 2014 irishtimes.com
   When Kierkegaard said that, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,” I doubt that he had formal education in mind. Still, it is a useful quote to introduce a dichotomistic article that shows one author’s view of the best, or worst, to come.
3. S.A.S.S.Y. SAMR: Toolkit for Educators to Transform Instruction techchef4u.com
   S: STUDENTS and Storytelling A: Awesome ASSESSMENT (Teacher-Driven and Student-Driven) S: SOCIAL (Voice and Collaboration) S: SEEK: Research and Visualization (Finding it, Citing it, and Displaying it) Y: YOU: Think about Your Own Thinking…
4. Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says | TIME.com time.com

Tech Tips

1. Hemingway hemingwayapp.com
   Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear. Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.
2. The future needs fixing – sugru sugru.com
   Sugru is the new self-setting rubber for fixing, modifying and improving your stuff. Over 500,000 people in 151 countries are using it to make their stuff work better.
3. Doodle: easy scheduling doodle.com
   Doodle simplifies scheduling The scheduling tool you’ll actually use. Find a date for a meeting 2x faster

 

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