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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity. 2004, November).

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. In other words, they can dictate and tweak the rules that defined the adaptive learning experience.

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Weekend Reading: Pollen Edition

ProfHacker

" " Palantir Knows Everything About You ," by Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson ( Bloomberg ): "Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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Lost in the crowd?

Learning with 'e's

In his book 2004 ' Distraction ', author Mark Curtis argued that our sense of self - or personal identity - can become confused or challenged when we habitually use digital technology. There has been some debate over whether or not people should combine their personal and business social media identities. Reference Curtis, M.

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Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

techlearning

This journey started in 2004. While traditional research still matters, we also recognize teachers are researchers and can learn much from their experience about what learning can and should be. With current social media, I would most likely receive alerts when people/groups that I am following have updated posts.