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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free.

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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

Launched in 2003, by San Francisco-based Linden Labs, Second Life is a comparative dinosaur in Internet Years. As a free PC-based software, Second Life is unique in that it allows educators to create simulated learning environments from scratch. Find all the available Google Cardboard education apps here. Second Life.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M.

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Teacher, Teach Thyself! Free Quality PD Resources

EdTechSandyK

The tutorials on this site rival any that I''ve ever paid to watch, and they''ve helped me learn several programs and web tools. The site is a little hard to navigate in my opinion, but worth it when you find the software instructions you are looking for. Resources exist for Office versions back to 2003. Happy learning!

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). Organizational learning: A socio-cognitive framework. Infrastructures, incentives, and institutions: Fostering distributed knowledge bases for the learning society.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them. How is it that this rather simple piece of software is succeeding while more sophisticated ed tech has often shown mixed results and failed to gain traction?

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties. In some districts, laptops and devices sent home with students have software that tracks keywords and alerts staff before students harm themselves or someone else.

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