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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

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Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

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Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. And in fact, some officials attribute poor technology purchasing decisions as one of the roots of their troubles. We let technology leave us in the dust.

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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

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For years, he served as the business partner and editor for Tim O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Media, which itself has become an intellectual (and publishing) nexus for the technology community. (A Come meet Dale Dougherty, Tim O’Reilly and Betsy Corcoran at the SF Edtech Meetup on Thursday, Nov. Free to Make ($11.50

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Reading Students Through a Tech Lens

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The answer to these questions is yes, so said educational leaders and edtech specialists in an edLeader Panel, sponsored by Gaggle and CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate. They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

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I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As with all of the other sessions in the Summit (300 in total for this two-month event!), Her passion for smart entertainment has lead her around the world, speaking on the role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) programming on television. Yong Zhao, Ph.D

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

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He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . I was still telling a linear story about China, from physical geography to history to current events. Understand how Boyer integrates technology into his course design.

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