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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. Instructors should incorporate engagement techniques such as brief, live streamed online lectures using Google Hangouts , Zoom , Adobe Connect to name a few.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. For example , a few years back “Integrating Technology” into the curriculum was the focus for my school. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Hope for the Future

Hack Education

Surveillance technologies. To prescribe a piece of technology as some sort of solution or fix to any of this is insulting. One of the things I have written about quite a bit is the idea of an "ed-tech amnesia" — that is, there is a certain inattention to and erasure of the history of the field of education technology.

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