Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Has this happened to you? You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the internet. You test it the evening before, several times, just to be sure. You are ready. You blame yourself–why didn’t you stick with what you’d always done?

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Technology Common Core Digital Citizenship System 150

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

So what about this year? The familiar narrative—that schools today are outdated and in need of an overhaul—has also been shared by the likes of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and education reform leaders. But we have different interpretations about why and what to do about it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) .” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

User Generated Education

AUGUST 13, 2020

The learners in a self-directed learning environment where learner agency prevails: Determine what they want to learn and develop their own learning plan for their learning, based on a broad range of desired outcomes. Form their own learning communities possibly using social networking tools suggested and/or set up by the educator.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Those who are already members of LearningRevolution.com do not need to do anything. If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 2, 2015

It''s that time of year that I do my Geeky house cleaning, so it''s another year going over my past posts about this topic and thinking how to improve them! It was recently released that some Sony employees had a password of s0ny123 and the worst, "password!" "The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself.

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

However, with the rise in the use of distributed groups in the workplace, there is the recognition that knowledge that is distributed in the form of distributed cognition, may not be accessed in the same way that traditional organizational structures allowed. How do individuals define “knowledge”?

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

BYOD — Bring Your Own Device — has gained some momentum in today’s education system. Read more: Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]. However, the education system must prepare students for the adult life, and we, adults, use technology more than we would like to admit.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). In addition, I’ve begun to do some cursory analyses of the data set underlying the map in an attempt to identify patterns that may be useful in responding via policy and practice. Wash your spirit clean.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). In addition, I’ve begun to do some cursory analyses of the data set underlying the map in an attempt to identify patterns that may be useful in responding via policy and practice. Wash your spirit clean.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

You can listen to the full interview above, and we’ve shared some of the highlights below. How did you get started in education and how did it get to where you are now with using video? And I think that experience as a first-year teacher really impacted how I’m doing what I’m doing today.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

Upon reflection several years ago, I came to see that despite all my efforts I was making the classic Field of Dreams mistake (“if we build it, they will come”) by assuming that “if OER exist in a faculty’s discipline and research shows them to be effective in supporting learning, faculty will adopt.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

If you want to prepare for the future of educational technology, start by exploring the past. What are the AV trends that can help teachers draw insights from learners today and tomorrow? New audiovisual tools are supporting next-level collaboration, soft skills development, and design thinking in K-12 schools.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside. I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended).

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 6, 2019

I got three chapters in and said to my husband, “You have got to read this. This book is a summary of what it’s like to be a woman in America. If you read this, you will understand me 1000 times better because Soraya’s saying everything I’ve been thinking and feeling but couldn’t articulate.” . This is everything.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Here’s how schools can protect them. Just as we wouldn’t let a live spark go untended, so we need to take sensible steps to guard sensitive information—our own and our students’—online. VIRTUAL SAFETY “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Invaluable free resources on ferpasherpa.org include: ? “The

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2015

Recently on this blog I featured an interview with Martin Weller , one of the keynote speakers for EDEN 2015. is the best blog in the land, and I am known as the Reverend because I lay down the gospel :) More seriously, bavatuesdays is my personal blog, and I''ve been hammering out posts there for almost a decade now.

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MOOC LMS VLE EdTech 28

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

You must be so proud. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” But maybe a lot of education policy is based on pseudoscience, so that’s why we can just let that slide… Via Chalkbeat : “President Winfrey? Here’s what we know about Oprah’s education outlook.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go generated more than $160 million by the end of July, hitting $600 million in revenue within its first 90 days on the market – the fastest mobile game to do so. ” “ Why Pokémon Go marks a new step forward in education.” ” “ 14 Reasons Why Pokémon Go Is The Future Of Learning.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” ( Academy schools in England are somewhat similar to charter schools in the US – publicly funded by not locally controlled.). .” ” ( Academy schools in England are somewhat similar to charter schools in the US – publicly funded by not locally controlled.). National) Education Politics.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. Equifax , Facebook , facial recognition , DACA , etc.).

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. Equifax , Facebook , facial recognition , DACA , etc.).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If students are not able to complete their degree within six years, this act would compel them to repay the grant in the form of an unsubsidized Stafford Loan.” And that is saying a lot. “The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students ,” says Erin Rousseau in The New York Times. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Then there’s the question: what counts as “ed-tech”? This is part two of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. One of the challenges of writing this series – and trust me, there are many – is separating my analysis out into ten articles that name ten distinct “trends.”

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