Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2015

Started in Israel in 2007, feature-packed Waze was purchased by Google about a year ago which means it can share features with–and from–Google’s in-house Google Maps. What a great lesson for students to learn about the power of the internet, social media, and one person. Conclusion.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 27, 2012

(Don''t miss my post: Daring Conference Packing Tips & Tricks ) A Life-Changing Ed-Tech Event My first NECC (now ISTE) conference was in 2007 - Atlanta - was epic! See, I had been presenting every year at my state ISTE affiliate MSET since 1996 but had never had the moolah $ or the gumption to go to the "big show" until 2007.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This free event is for everyone interested in helping students to learn, because we're having what may be one of the most important conversations about learning in the history of the world. Understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. I am a Google Educator Group Leader and Google Certified Innovator in Mexico City.I In the fall of 2007, Courtney went on to attend the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities as a first-generation college student.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” 2 job at the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I was still telling a linear story about China, from physical geography to history to current events. I’ve also done online office hours in a live format, where students, alumni, or random visitors basically used AOL Instant Messenger or Google Talk to ask questions. Discover how Course Hero can help inspire your course design.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. million people had attended the event. ” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. So I’m including a lot of events in this article that are not “ed-tech” per se. Thiel spoke at the Republican Party Convention, the first gay man to take the main stage at that event.

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