Availability of latest technologies in some countries

TEDEd

 

As teachers, what do you think of using TED-ED lessons as an instructional technology.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of developing materials with this tool.  What skills as a teacher do you need to develop?  What skills do your students need to develop in order to learn effectively with this tool?  Explore your ideas and thoughts in your blog. 
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In my opinion , TED-ED allows people watch visual content . So it will help to remember easily the contents of lessons. Teachers should have innovative and creative thinking skills. Students should focus on the content and think deeply about topic in order to learn lesson effectively.

When you start teaching, how different will your digital literacies be from your students?...

When you start teaching, how different will your digital literacies be from your students? Will your school provide the necessary environment for you to fully engage your students and their way of learning?  Will you encourage your students to use their mobile devices or the current technology they have in the classroom?  Write your ideas in a post in your blog.

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I think that when I start teaching ,my digital literacy will be more different than my students due to the fact that they won't be able to use and have knowledge about educational web site, they will  be focusing on some temporary or daily web sites. Some of the students can have idea about these useful website. However , most of them don't have. Some of the schools,especially private ones can have opportunity to provide those technologies devices in order to enhance students currency education but most of them can't provide because of political and financial reasons. Probably, I will allow my students use their mobile phones or tablets to participate the class collaboration or communication, not for chatting or talking purposes. Because it will help me to present more information to the class and gaining more times.   

Feedly.com , a news aggregator application

Feedly is a news aggregator application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others.

What is the TweetDeck?

TweetDeck is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.

Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles.

What is 21st century education?

Our world  and  educational system is changing at an unprecedented way. We need to keep up with these changing and up to date our self forever

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Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. https://www.tumblr.com/

 Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.
Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.

TodaysMeet.com What is the todaysmeet.com?

TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success.

Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no sign up, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.

Google reveals most searched-for universities

 

The search data from Google tracks the "phenomenal" rise of online courses

Google has revealed the most popular searches for people around the world looking for universities.

This ranking of online searches is very different from the traditional map of the global powerhouses of higher education.

There is a strong interest in online courses, rather than traditional campus-based universities, says Google.

And there are five Indian institutions in the top 20 of most searched-for universities.

The top search worldwide is for the University of Phoenix, a US-based, for-profit university, with many online courses and a sometimes controversial record on recruitment.

The University of Phoenix, founded in the 1970s, comes ahead of famous US academic institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.

Online students In second place in this league table of university searches is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - last week ranked as the world's best university and also an institution with a strong record for pioneering online courses.

 

There are five Indian universities in Google's most-searched top 20

The top European university is not some ancient institution, but the UK's distance learning pioneer, the Open University.

It has been developing online courses, including for the US, and is in third place in the Google most-searched rankings.

University College London and the London School of Economics are both ahead of Oxford and Cambridge among UK universities.

The University of Calicut, in Kerala, India, is fourth in this ranking of online searches. And Anna University in Chennai is the second Indian university in the top 10.

Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university based in Virginia in the US, with many online students, appears in the top 20.

Shopping channel The internet has become a key marketplace for universities to reach potential students, says Google's analysis.

It is also increasingly the medium for delivering courses, including massive open online courses or "Moocs". In 2013, searches for online universities overtook traditional universities.

 

International searches account for 40% of people looking at UK universities

Taking the UK higher education system as an example, Google's search patterns show a globalised and fast-changing market.

Among searches worldwide for UK universities, 40% are from outside the UK. The biggest international regions for searching for UK universities are Asia Pacific and western Europe.

This has helped to put five UK universities in the top 20 - but Google's report on search data shows the volatility and pace of change.

In 2011, the most searched-for universities in the UK, apart from the Open University, were conventional campus-based institutions, headed by Oxford and Cambridge.

By 2014, all of these UK campus universities had been overtaken by Coursera, the US-based provider of online courses. Other Mooc providers, such as edX and FutureLearn, had also emerged as bigger than many traditional UK universities.

"The growth that they've experienced has been phenomenal," says the Google analysis. "Higher education institutions must decide whether to embrace and adapt or risk getting left behind."

The Khan Academy, which has been providing online teaching material since 2006, has more search activity than Cambridge University, teaching since the 13th Century.

'Tip of the iceberg' Universities are acutely aware of the importance of their online presence, says Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell University's Higher Education Research Institute in New York.

 

 The red line tracks searches for Coursera, the blue line for Cambridge University

The internet is the "primary way" that universities market themselves to potential students and to alumni, says Prof Ehrenberg.

"We update our web page multiple times a week to broadcast all the news that is going on at the university and all of the achievements, including research, of our faculty and students, and showcase all the visitors to the university.

"But this is only the tip of the iceberg in the way that the internet has changed how we behave.

"Many institutions are heavily into online instruction as a way of expanding enrolments... many institutions are moving to expand revenues by growing professional masters programmes in a wide range of areas."

Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute in London, says the impact of Moocs has been "over-sold".

But he says university websites have an important role in recruiting, particularly for overseas students.

The Google data suggests that academics, accustomed to university terms, will also need to pay attention to search terms.

"The internet is playing an ever increasing role in the decision making. Students are online searching and consuming content in all forms when they are deciding whether or not to go to university and deciding which universities to apply for," said Harry Walker, education industry head at Google.

Top 20 most searched universities by Google users worldwide, 2014
1. University of Phoenix
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Open University
4. University of Calicut
5. University of California, Los Angeles
6. Anna University
7. Stanford University
8. London School of Economics
9. Columbia University
10. New York University
11. University of Mumbai
12. University College London
13. University of Oxford
14. Florida State University
15. Harvard University
16. University of Cambridge
17. Liberty University
18. University of Rajasthan
19. University of Michigan
20. Annamalai University

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