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Global Education Conference 2017 #globaled17

The CoolCatTeacher

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon on episode 190 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Our handle for Twitter is @globaledcon. Twitter: @elemenous. Go to globaleducationconference.com to join in. Steve: Lucy’s our social media guru… Lucy: Yes there is.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. They’re amazing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” The study was conducted by Blackboard and researchers by the University of Michigan. Jerry Falwell Jr.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard.

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