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Educational Technology

Educational Technology is a study and ethical practice for facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.  In other words, use of technology in form of products/apps/tools to enhance learning, pedagogy and instruction. It is not replacing any current practices, but it is the use of those tools to aid in the delivery of education (EdTech Review).

A New Educational Resource:

Virtual Reality

Review the infographic on the history, evolution, geopolitics, and educational benefits of using virtual reality in the classroom. Here is a copy of the infographic as a flattened PDF file.

The Periodic Table of STEM Careers &

Educational Technology

The following educational technology resource was designed and produced by the Daily Genius community.  It was subsequently taken and enhanced to be a clickable PDF to allow access to the resources referenced.  Simply click on the image and then any specific educational technology tool you are interested.

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Padagogy Wheel 4.1

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects.

Code.org is a non-profit organization and eponymous website led by Hadi and Ali Partovi that aims to encourage people, particularly school students in the United States, to learn computer science.