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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

For example, Sony Playstation VR software and designs have evolved dramatically over the past few years, seeking to create a more comfortable and natural experience for users. Unlike traditional education, in a classroom setting with teachers and students, VR connects the user to software without any actual personal interaction.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Expertise, competency, and content

Connecting 2 the World

This is knowledge that can be possessed (Nonaka, 1994), as “what is known, or the corpus of knowledge that does not belong to any particular individual or context (Yakhlef, 2010, p.39).” For example, a teacher in a rural area without access to internet service may not have access or use of learning management system (LMS) software.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This can further be linked to depth of knowledge being greater as it is internalized (Yaklief, 2010), as exhibit 2 illustrates. The greater the level of internalization of knowledge, the greater perceived depth of knowledge (Allee, 1999; Herling, 2000; Yaklief, 2010). As mentioned previously, content knowledge is explicit.

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Teacher, Teach Thyself! Free Quality PD Resources

EdTechSandyK

The site is a little hard to navigate in my opinion, but worth it when you find the software instructions you are looking for. This site has been valuable to me as our district is switching to Office 2010 this year. Resources exist for Office versions back to 2003. Topics include, computers, reading, and math.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. Software now uses the data schools have on applicants to help predict how much aid must be distributed in order to achieve enrollment targets.

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