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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. Just having those icons up there at the top of the toolbar as places for them to reference. “I have these great digital badges.

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

IT Bill

Transactional distance doesn’t refer to the distance between the instructor and student in regards to space or time but rather the distance in regard to transactions or interactions between the learner, instructor, and content. In the CBE environment students enter a program of study at different times and progress at different rates.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” Publishers have sought to restrict libraries’ access to e-book lending, for example, blaming libraries for declining sales.

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