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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Last updated in 2007, the international standards body has defined a data model for describing, referencing, and sharing competency definitions, primarily in the context of online and distributed learning. Open Registry of K-12 Learning Standards State academic standards help define the learning objectives for U.S.

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

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This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty.

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Change The Conversation–It’s Not About The Thinking

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Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. For example, I love the idea of mobile learning, so I attach positive feelings to it that can lead me to cognitive distortions downstream, where I oversimplify it’s function, or catastrophize our continued misunderstanding of its potential in education.

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20 Questions Every Parent Should Ask Teachers

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Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? What learning models do you use (e.g.,

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7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future

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This is among the biggest and most powerful ideas in “future learning,” and should be central to any meaningful discussion therein. What are students learning, why are they learning it, and what are they doing with what they know? Game-Based Learning & Gamification. Connectivism.

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Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again

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Seem to ignore that mobile learning is central to education’s future. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning. Look back instead of forward.

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The Characteristics Of A Good School

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Mobile learning, digital citizenship, design thinking, collaboration, creativity, and on a larger scale, digital literacy (education not yet comfortable enough with these ideas to teach “just citizenship” or “just literacy”),1:1, and more are skills and content bits that every student would benefit from exposure to and mastery of.