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Online Gaming Strategy Sparks Idea for Ed-Tech Startup Business

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Three major life events occurred for me in 2007 that sparked my idea to start an ed-tech company: The Internet decimated the textbook industry and I realized I needed to reinvent my business. My youngest son figured out how to set up a server to play privately with a small group of his friends.

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Here's a Neat Infographic on 'The History of the Hashtag'

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Also, anyone can create their own hashtag to designate a group, to express emotions, to editorialize -- for anything, really. It''s informative and entertaining and it was created by blur Group , a global technology company that specializes in ecommerce. Facebook Flickr Google plus hashtags Instagram social media tumblr'

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 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. xii cited in Gay, p.

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Sarah Thomas, Ph.D. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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

Bryan Alexander

At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them. That’s how you define who you are.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). If so, what are they?

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

Bryan Alexander

At this point in the Forum we broke into small group discussions. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). For example: Googling people to learn about them. That’s how you define who you are.

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