The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Makerspaces," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). There has been a lot of talk about makerspaces in libraries over the past four years. and at the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

We're getting close to our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). How can library and information science schools and professional development programs prepare library professionals?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

We're excited to announce our first of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please register as a member of the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29th, is our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). The list of scheduled presentations, plus keynote bios, are below! Abels , John Bertot , and Valerie J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As the district prepares to reopen for full in-person learning on August 30, teachers are attending training sessions and figuring out just what role technology will play in their classrooms. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. The technology is out there, and the concept is easily grasped. post-2001) web.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. The board has been great at investing in new technologies.”

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techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2014

Advocacy for kiddos, teens, literature, creativity, giftedness, special needs, technology, a filterless society, community projects, connection with parents, geeks, goofballs, oh and LIBRARIES! In our profession, being an advocate for your kids, your library, your program, and yes.for YOURSELF is ESSENTIAL!

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2016

The notice in the Federal Register shared that 50 percent of all grant funds, more than $13 million , are reserved for use by school libraries serving high need LEAs. Show citation box. Show citation box.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 22, 2015

Kathy has been a Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a librarian. Since the early 1990’s, she has been involved in educational technology as an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Teacher, and a Discovery Education STAR and Guru. Q: What is your role in educational technology today?

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 21, 2017

I began my education career in 2001 as an Interrelated Special Education teacher, mainly serving as a resource and collaborative English/Language Arts teacher. Also, they no longer using their fear of change or technology as an excuse, but putting best practices into action. My philosophy was important!

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

After all, schools are preparing them for their future careers, which will include using some aspect of online technology. They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. CEN also has redundancies built in so that if one node goes down, schools won’t notice.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 2, 2020

Back in 2001, Roy Tennant famously said, “ Only librarians like to search , everyone else likes to find.” Library Journal Digital Libraries- Cross-Database Search: One-Stop Shopping. Sometimes visiting with a subject expert is the best way to go.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

And, that makes access to adequate and reliable broadband even more important as the development of new technologies continues. What all these types of organizations share is a commitment to developing a modern, agile workforce comprised of lifelong learners, who can grow along with evolving technologies.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With her new appointment, Dr. Bers will continue to explore and research how young students learn to be creators and collaborators with technology and with each other. Although I have been a professor at Eliot Pearson since 2001, my own doctoral training is not as a developmentalist, but as a designer of technologies for children.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Still, in the process of testing the technology, she teamed up with Göran Plato, who ran the day program. It was an easily-accessible library of pictures; these were of events and things that were important to the people in the center. This library of pictures allowed for communication. References: Plato, G., & Jönsson, B.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 14, 2015

The mission: to create a free, 3D online library of the world’s cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters, destroyed by human aggression or ravaged by the passage of time. Best experienced on Inter net Explorer, the site not only preserves and informs, it presents magical field trips and tours for our students.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

They also encourage schools and districts to leverage community partnerships by working with libraries, community centers, mobile community hotspots, or local chambers of commerce. She holds firm to the belief that student access to technology is the great equalizer. Christine Fox is the deputy executive director for SETDA.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 8, 2013

This is a continuation of my series of retrospective reviews of seminal learning and technology books. I have scoured my personal book library in search of a dozen books that have influenced my own thinking, and share a synopsis of their contents with you. For previous reviews start here. Unported License.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Secretary McCulloch served three terms in the Montana House of Representatives, from 1995 to 2001. As an active civic leader, she has been a faculty affiliate and served on numerous boards including the Board of Public Education, Board of Regents, Montana Library Commission, and the Advisory Council to the Montana Meth Project.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

Idaho is working on solutions like updating their six-year rotation schedule in order to stay more up to date with digital materials, and working with their technology services team to ensure access in rural buildings and make upgrades to hardware. Districts are also rising to the challenge of digital material implementation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2011

Join me Tuesday, August 16th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dr. Gary Lopez to discuss HippoCampus, a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Lockett researched science and technology fields his sophomore year and decided on bioengineering, a discipline that combines science and math to study living things. Since 2001, when standardized test standards were first imposed at the flagship, LSU has rejected any applicant who earned less than a 22 on the ACT.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 28, 2022

We’re all familiar with USB-A and B, and the quirks of these older technologies, but how to get the most out of USB-C? These can go right up to 40 gigabits per second with the emergent USB4 technology. USB-C is a relatively new technology, but it has quite a high degree of backwards compatibility. and 3.2. .

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

Guard Up opened a full-time facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, in 2001. Within minutes of discovering the source he was out the door and on his way to check out a copy of the novel from the local library. In this age of technology, so few kids are unplugged and playing pretend. He reads about INGSOC and says ‘Guys!

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Wikipedia think aloud observations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Public Library Association Conference, COLUMBUS, Ohio – With nearly 3.8 Thorndike will showcase its Spanish youth large print titles at the Public Library Association (PLA) conference, April 3-5 in Columbus, OH at Gale booth #2001. For more information, visit the Thorndike Press Spanish youth large print webpage.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios. It requires cultural change,” says Kathy Fernandes, senior director for learning design and technologies at the CSU office. Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea. Portfolios have their drawbacks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. We use media, art and technology on MY HERO to celebrate the best of humanity, one story at a time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 Our students are children of technology and the web. The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Her passion for smart entertainment has lead her around the world, speaking on the role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) programming on television. See you "online!"

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 6, 2012

and was the publisher of Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped publishing in 2001. Her interest in peace and social justice issues led to her work in education and with libraries. He is the president of HoltGWS LLC. GWS was the nation’s first periodical about homeschooling, started by Holt in 1977.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

This field has been a passion of mine since 2001, when I first started working on it at Stanford.” Department of State to let refugees access the company’s library of online certificate programs, such as an “English for Business” from the University of Pennsylvania. 17 blog post.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Media Source, a company with several library-related products, including the publication School Library Journal. There are other powerful relationships too – as I’m investigating as part of my Spencer Education Fellowship, education technology’s political and financial networks are vast.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? It’s a crisis of knowledge and expertise and science. (It’s

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