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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School. For example, the iPhone was only 3 years old and smartphones were just taking off in 2010. If you did not require that every teacher in the district must use the adopted LMS (Learning Management System a.k.a

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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. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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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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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

By replacing LMS threaded discussion with SMT (e.g. ANDERSON, T (2003). Tumblr ) for peer review or assessment of learning. Most social media technologies (SMT) are designed to work with the smartphone as well as with desktop browsers. becomes a simple and familiar process. References: Brooks, D.C. Cochrane, T., Bateman, R.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

For undergraduates in World Regions, the road to an A is paved with: 1) Weekly book reading quizzes —Each week a quiz is posted on Moodle —a free LMS—with questions arising from the two assigned chapters from The Plaid Avenger’s World. 4) International film assignments —Watch the foreign movie of the week and then take a quiz on the film.

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