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What Educators Need to Know Right Now About Digital Citizenship

The CoolCatTeacher

NetRef offers powerful Internet monitoring software that I recommend for schools. Having co-authored the US’s first parents’ guide to teen social networking, published in 2006, she has also contributed to a number of books and publications, most recently Bullying: Perspectives, Practice and Insights (Council of Europe, 2017).

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PROOF POINTS: 114 studies on flipped classrooms show small payoff for big effort

The Hechinger Report

van Alten, referring to a flipped classroom, in an email interview. The University of Utrecht analysis of all the mixed results of 114 studies from 2006 through 2016 found that flipped classrooms tended to increase student learning by a small amount. My takeaway message is that it could be better,” said researcher David C.D.

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Educators can no longer ignore the TPACK framework

Neo LMS

Koehler, who co-authored a paper in 2006 and another one in 2008 , referring to the above core idea with these exact words. And I’m talking about both hardware — iPads, Chromebooks and other devices, as well as software — apps, productivity and collaboration tools, learning management systems. Mishra and M.

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Repost: How I coined the term ‘open source’

Iterating Toward Openness

Over the weekend Christine Peterson published an essay on opensource.com describing the emergence of the ideas behind “open source software” and how she coined the name twenty years ago. In a few days, on February 3, the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term “ open source software ” is upon us.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. References Barsky, E. geotagging).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. or the ‘social web’. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0 and Purdon, M.

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Opening up #learning: Access to knowledge

Learning with 'e's

Soon there were open colleges, and open learning centres, and then open software appeared - software that could be shared and developed by anyone. The ethos of sharing extends across open content, open source software, open courses and open scholarship. Reference Putnam, R. 2006) What are the affordances of technology?