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Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018

Edsurge

Udacity already offers a self-driving car nanodegree but, as its founder and former CEO Sebastian Thrun writes , it “has many prerequisites [and] is built for seasoned software engineers.” Roy has more details about the program in this blog post. This four-month intro course, which starts on Oct.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Subscribe to their blog.

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Connected Learning and 21st Century English Teacher Education

Educator Innovator

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Uncover solutions for educators and students with a Google for Education event. Take a degree course.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sample tweets and a blog post are also at the bottom of this email, below the schedule. And if you speak Hungarian, you’ll notice we have ten special Hungarian sessions that start early the morning of the 8th. :) Please do help us promote the conference as widely as possible. Forward this post if you can.

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

This quote from Nicole Mirra’s post at the DML blog stuck with me after I read it not long after it appeared on DML Central’s website in May of this year. Late last spring my alarm rang early so I could join a Google Hangout with two eighth graders from Jack Zangerle’s 8th grade English class in New York’s Hudson Valley.