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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. Davidson’s book also argues that colleges in particular have a responsibility to update teaching techniques to meet the changing demographics of students and the changing needs of the workforce.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. But, when the technology fails and you can’t take a breath no matter how hard you try, it’s called a panic attack. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. But, when the technology fails and you can’t take a breath no matter how hard you try, it’s called a panic attack. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model.

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? The assessment takes the form of a team quiz to be undertaken during a flipped classroom tutorial by students using the technology Socrative. Also this ‘best of’ can be useful in case of technological problems with a system or device.

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Tuesday Show - Teachers Becoming Their Own Khan Academy

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''re going to talk about the "flipped classroom," and drill down on one of my concerns about this model: the regular use in public discussion of phrases like "finding the best lecture on." Shane joined TechSmith in 2003 with over eight years of management and production experience in video and television.

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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. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Mourn and Organize. So many losses.

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

Edsurge

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design. Boyer has received the Students’ Choice Award as a Faculty Member of the Year for 13 straight years.

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