Every Friday, I share a website (or app) that I’ve heard about, checked into, been excited to use. This one is a math app. Since ‘math’ is by far the most popular search term of readers who s...

In the previous post we looked at YouTube for schools.  YouTube for schools is set up to allow students and teachers to view selected YouTube videos in a controlled way in school.  Another tool that is fantastic for teachers is the YouTube for Teachers channel. The YouTube for teachers channel

You might have heard about flipped classrooms and wondered what it was. In fact you might have even done it, and may not know that you used this strategy. The flipped classroom provides avenues for teachers to become facilitators of learning and mov

Yesterday I finished reading one of the greatest books of 2011. I have been quoting some of its ideas into some articles here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning and I guess you are already familiar with it and if not...

The research is clear.  If you can increase student motivation, your students can be up to forty percent more productive. I don't know of a teacher who wouldn't want to increase the productivity of their students by forty percent.  The problem is that generally we are so busy just getting our stu

Review is a crucial part of learning. Learning is making sure short term memories are brought to the long term memory. Review strategies are needed.

Kids' stuff have their share here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.We have already reviewed several kids friendly websites that both teachers and parents can use with their kids. We do understand how hard it is to...

Remember when driving drunk was a minor offense?It was legal to harass someone?Moon someone??There is no doubt that while many new laws have made our lives safer and more civilized, there are many people who think that the rush...

Our digital society hasn't figured out what to do about privacy. More importantly, it hasn't figured what to do about the privacy of our kids -- we keep confusing privacy with transparency. It's problematic enough that adults are diving willy-nilly...

When communicating any message it is essential that we are congruent, that is to say our words match our tonality which matches our body language. It is also important to get our facts right, because to fail to do so will lose...