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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Let’s take maps, for example.

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How One Coding School Hopes to Teach Thousands of Students, Without Professors

Edsurge

There is a help desk, with a handmade sign that reads: If you have a question: Google It. Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. You were sitting at the computer, and were you looking at MOOCs from other colleges, or were you tapping the person next to you to ask a question? Ask your neighbor.

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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.”) But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?”

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

Google Earth. There are deeper issues here, including the nature of knowledge, the role of education, the definition of “home” and “family,” and the rights–and accountability–of families and communities. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning.

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7 Things I Learned in Google's Advanced Power Searching Class

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Yes, this class was definitely more challenging than the first ! This was the first time I had heard the term triangulation used in relation to Google searches. I learned so many more details about how Google Trends works. Libraries" is definitely an often-searched topic! They were recommended, but not required.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., The ubiquity of Google search and its impact on curriculum knowledge demands. The general success of Google as a platform model (Classroom, Music, YouTube, Search, Chromebooks, Chrome OS, etc.).