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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. It’s a transformation that’s been largely driven by the unprecedented pace of technological advancement. And guess what?

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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. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Cultivating these intentions has been shown to enhance students’ persistence. Chaiklin, S.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Shortly after receiving this Campus Technology asked for my reaction. Can we use our imagination and technology to build something new in the NMC’s ruins? NMC has attracted an unusual group, different from what you might see around other educational technology venues. — Kim Pearson (@professorkim) December 19, 2017.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Polya, 1959; Ghosh & Gilboa, 2014), embodied cognition (Tran, Smith, & Buschkuehl, 2017), and creativity and problem solving (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. Summative Research. Heuristic Reasoning in the Theory of Numbers. Schneider, W., &

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

“Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Last year, at least 10 U.S.-based Funding Deals for U.S.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Shortly after receiving this Campus Technology asked for my reaction. Can we use our imagination and technology to build something new in the NMC’s ruins? NMC has attracted an unusual group, different from what you might see around other educational technology venues. — Kim Pearson (@professorkim) December 19, 2017.

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