EdTechSandyK

JUNE 29, 2017

During the final day of ISTE 2017 , I spent some time perusing the Exhibit Hall in between a great workshop on building digital portfolios with Google Sites and a session on using Open Educational Resources (OER). So, there were fewer tweets yesterday, and the majority of them were from the OER session.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Barajas-Murphy says that Educause is already starting the planning for the 2019 Horizon Report for higher education, which is scheduled for release in February, at the group’s ELI conference. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

The ISTE conference isn’t the biggest edtech conference in the world by sheer luck. THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.) We caught a few tidbits—take a look below. Wondering about Apple?

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 15, 2017

When I was at the Domains 2017 conference earlier this summer, Jon Udell issued a challenge – what are you doing to help the fight again digital polarization, “fake news,” and general media illiteracy? Now, you can contribute using Google Docs. How do you see incorporating the project into your class this semester?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. Here are our slides.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Welcome to the Future!

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

We caught up with Cini recently for a far-ranging chat about what tools (like OER) are helping adult students and how the latest technology (like AI) could further move the needle. This conference attracts plenty of venture capitalists and companies in education. Remind people how big the OER effort is at UMUC. This was huge.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. These edtech approaches received both buzz and practice over the past decade, but no longer seem to win attention in media and at conferences.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The recently published OER strategy document , as informative as it is, reads more like a list of issues and opportunities than what Michael Feldstein describes as “ rungs on a ladder of ambition.” During this period I launched the Open Education Conference , partly as a vehicle for this evangelism work.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

School administrators learned about the site, to be called Amazon Inspire, during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, held here.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Google Advanced Search.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 29, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. Past Series Articles.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Kathy Schrock : Educational Technologist, DEN Guru, Adobe Ed Leader, Google Certified Teacher, Sony Ed Ambassador ( kathy@kathyschrock.net ) Shannon Miller : Teacher Librarian, Mom & Wife who loves connecting, creating, collaborating & change. Esther Wojcicki : Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant. Consultant.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Open Source and OER ? Steve Steve Hargadon steve@learningrevolution.com [link] @stevehargadon CURRENT SESSION LIST: Abigail Ekangouo Awanga : Emoji grading a fascinating effect on low proficiency learners AERO : Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference AERO : Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. Libraries and Librarians ?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

” Contests and Conferences. There’s more about the story of Jamal Khashoggi in the politics section above, but via NBC : “Media companies pulling out of Saudi conference after Khashoggi’s disappearance.” ” The conference in question: The Future Investment Initiative. Try Ethics and Philosophy.”

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

Differentiation : Imagine creating instruction (face-to-face or flipped) using Google Docs or Slides as your major platform. A former student once gave me a gift of a learning playlist progressively arranged for me to improve my two-step moves before a conference in Texas. OER and you: The curation mandate.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 18, 2018

I’ll be off to New Orleans this week and then Chicago after that for my fairly regular attempt to attend two overlapping conferences. And you’ll be able to follow conference activities on: Twitter: @alaannual and #alaac18. In this session, we will explore all the places that OER can take teaching and learning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

I am the founder of the Open Education Conference, which recently met for its 16 th annual convening. Assessments from a wide range of commercial publishers and OER providers inevitably end up on cheating websites where students share questions and answers with one another.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. Other updates: an Expeditions app, quizzes in Google Forms, a partnership with TES , a physical coding project.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2016

Global Leadership Week (GLW) is a week-long celebration of leadership through global action in K-20 education, taking place April 25 - 29, 2016, and organized by the Global Education Conference (GEC) Network. Second is the Global Leadership Day virtual mini-conference on Tuesday, April 26th which will feature thought leaders at all levels.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual reality hit the educational community in 2016 with the release of the low-cost 360° cameras (like the Ricoh Theta series) and the prominent use of Google Cardboard headsets for classroom use. In my Kathy’s Katch April column , I covered how and why educators might want to use virtual reality in the classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

The event was inspired by and organized in partnership with Dr. Sue Alman of the SJSU School of Information, and designed to complement the fifth annual Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference on October 20th, 2015. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a special note, we are now taking presentation proposals for the "Privacy in the Digital Age" mini-conference--see below! The third annual OZeLive online conference started today with an early keynote by Lucy Gray , "Going Global: Project-Based Learning with a Global Focus," which should already be available in recorded form.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. How did my students practice important success skills?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Google)’s biotech company, Calico. There have also been efforts to expand college degree programs that rely entirely on OER. TES Education, a British digital education company, says that it found teachers use OER more than they use textbooks. of courses use OER. I was skeptical then ; I am skeptical now.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. Enjoy your Google for Education products !

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 25, 2011

On this occasion, I was delighted to be invited to keynote the Northern Grid for Learning Annual Conference, and what an event it was! In March I attended the JISC annual conference in Liverpool, for once purely as a delegate rather than as a speaker. I admit I had to go to Google Maps to find it. Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The fourth annual Reform Symposium Free Online Conference (RSCON) starts this Friday, October 11th, running for three days and in conjunction with Connected Educator Month. To attend the conference, come to the site to look at the conference schedule in your own time zone (OK, I''m still quite proud of this method) at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. They are listed below, and after the reminder plea for moderator volunteers, you''ll also find the current list of all conference sessions. Huge thanks!

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. Via Boing Boing : “Dupes gather at sold-out Flat Earth International Conference.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Google has also rebranded Google Apps for Education as G Suite for Education. A Wi-Fi system.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” Among the speakers: Betsy DeVos and Peter Thiel. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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