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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. These learning centers look less like classrooms and more like co-working spaces, with lounges, group meeting rooms, individual study spaces, playgrounds and makerspaces.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

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This involves recognizing, respecting, and using students’ cultural backgrounds and experiences as conduits for effective teaching and learning. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here. 8) But what’s the relation between culture and teaching, one might ask?

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A Learning Typology: 7 Ways We Come To Understand

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This typology is an attempt to redefine how we think of learning in the 21 st century context. Current definitions of learning focus on performance rather than holistic growth, and on what the learner can do after a learning experience. A Learning Typology: 7 Ways We Come To Understand. Autopoietic and Adaptive.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity.

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Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

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EdSurge connected with Cavanagh (online of course) to talk about what he has learned from all those podcast chats, and about how his sidegig as a detective novelist shapes his work in campus innovation. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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43 Apps, Games, and Websites Transforming This Year's Classrooms

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But just how effective are these tools at helping students learn? Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Google Classroom. Bottom line: Google Classroom is a great way to manage and organize learning, though teachers who need more features may need to look elsewhere. Imagine Math.