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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. Teaching and Teacher Education , 74, 125-136. link] Coulter, S. doi: 10.1187/cbe.19-01-0021.

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April 1, 2011: What Stunt Will Google Pull Off?

The Electric Educator

Google has become notorious for its April 1st shenanigans. Here''s a list of their pranks from the past few years: 2000: Google Mental Plex (search using mental telepathy) 2002: Pigeon Rank (the secret to Google''s search algorithm is trained pigeons) 2004: Google Copernicus Center (apply for a job at Google''s newest office-- on the moon!)

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How Indian Tutoring App Provider Byju’s Got So Big

Edsurge

In 2007, he started using the name “Byju’s CAT Classes”—a reference to the Management Institutes’ entrance exam—for his services, according to Indian trademark documents. By March 2009, Raveendran’s reach had grown to seven cities, and the company’s website from that time said it had taught 3,500 students.

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

Listen to this week’s podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or in the player below. EdSurge recently connected with Ames to talk about the book and about her theory about the dangers of what she calls “charismatic technology.” It was all over the news.

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Google launched the alpha test of its Chrome OS netbook which lives in the cloud. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash). Cloud computing is here to stay. Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010. .

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’15 The Year of Wearable

The Thinking Stick

2007: The Year of the Network (Can we say Twitter and Facebook). 2009: Bringing Social Learning to the Masses (Education goes deeper in understanding social connections). I spent some time with her setting up her new phone and one of the things I had her download was the Google Fit app as well as RunKeeper.