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MARCH 5, 2016

Destination Matters. This is true with schools, too. Our destination should be more than just the work we do: taking attendance, direct instruction, providing practice, reviewing and assessing work, providing feedback, etc. Why are we bothering to do this work? For that matter, how do we know this is the right work to do? A fundamental and critical component for the success of any large-scale school change effort is the thoughtful creation, and formal acceptance, of a shared vision for that effo

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 5, 2016

March 5, 2016 Web technologies have reshaped many key traditional tasks we used to do by pen and paper (e,g note taking). They have also provided us with way more sophisticated options to.read more.

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MARCH 5, 2016

Even though we may be working with “Digital Natives,” students do not necessarily have the technology skills to do the work we want them to do with their laptops and tablets. In an environment where the technology is in service to learning the curriculum, it is important that teaching those skills is done quickly so that most of the student’s time is spent on the content of the activity, not the technology itself.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 5, 2016

March 5, 2016 As is the case once every week, EdTech and mLearning features a collection of some educational iPad apps that have gone free. Again, these deals are available at least in the.read more.

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MARCH 5, 2016

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

On February 25th Casey Green and I met online for the third Future Trends Forum. We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Here is the full recording and my notes. Click here to link to the full recording, or watch and listen to the embed below: We began by looking at the implications of the Campus Computing Project , which began wayyyy back in the pre-Web year of 1990.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 5, 2016

I know my kids love getting bookmarks. My 5 year old flipped over the 3D printed heart bookmarks that @mkrclub posted. She brought them for all her classmates for Valentines Day. Mkrclub has been on a roll designing new bookmarks. Mkrclub.com posted the files for St. Patricks day bookmarks recently. In an effort to peer pressure […].

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2016

As I remarked in my previous #LearningIs post, learning never stops. It is lifelong. Often we don't even realise we are learning, but we are constantly being exposed to new information, and if we pay attention, we are likely to internalise that information in some way. If you had told me during my school years that learning didn't stop when I left school, I would have been horrified.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2016

As I remarked in my previous #LearningIs post, learning never stops. It is lifelong. Often we don't even realise we are learning, but we are constantly being exposed to new information, and if we pay attention, we are likely to internalise that information in some way. If you had told me during my school years that learning didn't stop when I left school, I would have been horrified.

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