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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

If you are as old as I am then you will remember the thrill of watching your teacher wheel the TV trolley into the classroom. How can teachers use VR in the classroom. While VR has yet to be incorporated into advanced educational LMS s, there are a number of encouraging developments that are interesting to explore. Second Life.

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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. It gives unlimited access to a great library of well-written, humorous, and engaging stories that will captivate young readers. This is an app especially designed for kids of 12 and under.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. But those that do survive and build successful enterprises could change the world forever.

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Expertise, competency, and content

Connecting 2 the World

Knowledge of content can be measured, identified (especially lack of content knowledge), and/or recorded and stored for use by those who would not ordinarily have access to the knowledge. 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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

million people since 2003.” Via Edsurge : “Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft.” ” And via the Google blog , news of more features added to the company’s pseudo-LMS. Something something flipped classroom something something. Innovation!

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Reasons Pokemon Go will Replace the LMS ” by Tom Woodward.). Or the flipped classroom. Bonus: “ 5.3