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

Hack Education

You can trace the LMS to PLATO at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, for example, or you can trace it to CourseInfo at Cornell.) A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter. We can debate which one. We'll never forget, some said.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). And Jim blogged about it.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). And Jim blogged about it.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 236 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. PowerSchool is my SIS and LMS and is the sponsor of today’s show. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. Twitter: @pammoran.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

and a Link to a Free Resource with More Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Haiku Learning (my LMS). Wikispaces is also the backbone of my global collaborative projects since 2006, with MAD about Mattering as the most recent example. So many of these tools are new to me.

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From EDUPUNK to ds106. 10Q: Jim Groom

Learning with 'e's

As for the title Reverend, I was given that nickname by Chip German (then CIO of University of Mary Washington) back in 2006 or 2007. None of this happens in an LMS (or VLE), in fact, that systematic design of that system is anathema to all of these crucial elements of educating in the digital era. It''s just super-sized learning.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

The school emphasizes teaching over research, hiring and rewarding professors on the basis of their classroom performance, says Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd’s president since 2006. See: the LMS, the MOOC. And it places women in leadership positions throughout the school. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs. and Facebook Inc.