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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Fresh off our discussions about definitions , I have found that a great many sites and authors interchange and conflate “computer literacy” and “digital literacy”. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward. I find this fascinating.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world?

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3 ways Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) paved the way for edtech

eSchool News

Regardless of whether Mister Rogers’ puppets, trains, and soothing voice touched your childhood personally, he was inarguably a very “good neighbor” to millions of preschool children during his nearly 40 years of public broadcasting from 1963 to 2001.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Helping teens find their purpose

The Hechinger Report

Two seniors, who have been trained to lead the class, are presiding over today’s session on the theme of interpersonal connection. It’s 12:15 p.m. They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media.

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The Benefits of Helping Teens Identify Their Purpose in Life

MindShift

Two seniors, who have been trained to lead the class, are presiding over today’s session on the theme of interpersonal connection. It’s 12:15 p.m. They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media.

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Organizational learning theories

Connecting 2 the World

The first is based on the idea of organizational knowledge management in which knowledge is codified into information which the organization and individuals can access, monitor, acquire, and store (Allee, 1997; Contu & Willmott, 2003; Raelin, 2008). Perspective, meaning, and the form that communication takes are dictated by culture.