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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. I’ve had a longtime relationship with ISTE. So far we’ve met once and have been assigned to some small groups.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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Helping teens find their purpose

The Hechinger Report

They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. Social media and technology are not agents of change. Social media and technology are not agents of change. A lively discussion soon erupts over the pluses and minuses of social media. They are just tools.

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The Benefits of Helping Teens Identify Their Purpose in Life

MindShift

They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. Social media and technology are not agents of change. Social media and technology are not agents of change. A lively discussion soon erupts over the pluses and minuses of social media. They are just tools.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). This is understandable considering the fact that many online courses tend to be reading and writing intensive. What if we were to design the course with the smartphone learner in mind? Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

Google and Facebook are paradigmatic here, and Zuboff argues that the former was instrumental in discovering the value of behavioral surplus when it began, circa 2003, using user data to fine-tune ad targeting and to make predictions about which ads users would click on. These technologies foreclose rather than foster future possibilities.