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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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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 236 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. PowerSchool is my SIS and LMS and is the sponsor of today’s show. Twitter: @pammoran. Get motivated today listening to Pam. This is part 2 in our series with Pam. Listen Now.

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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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From EDUPUNK to ds106. 10Q: Jim Groom

Learning with 'e's

As for the title Reverend, I was given that nickname by Chip German (then CIO of University of Mary Washington) back in 2006 or 2007. None of this happens in an LMS (or VLE), in fact, that systematic design of that system is anathema to all of these crucial elements of educating in the digital era. It''s just super-sized learning.

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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. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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