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

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience.

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

Bryan Alexander

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. See: the LMS, the MOOC. and Facebook Inc.

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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. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

And there are a variety of alternative assignments, like the Twitter World Leader assignment. Tell us about the Twitter World Leaders. Boyer's Twitter World Leader Assignment; full size image here. You can watch that and write a short review worth up to 40 points. See below for details on Boyer’s assignments.)

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