Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies).

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2017

Koehler, who co-authored a paper in 2006 and another one in 2008 , referring to the above core idea with these exact words. Back then, the PC was a rarity, the mobile phone was humongous and the Internet was in its infancy. The TPACK framework is being credited to P. Mishra and M. But that was in ‘86, when Shulman advanced his idea.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. But Obama’s use of mobile devices and social media changed political campaigns forever.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

According to a 2017 study by Harvard University researchers, Stony Brook — one of 64 campuses in the State University of New York system — sends more than 51 percent of its low-income students into the highest 20 percent of income levels. Philosophically, we should do everything we can to promote social mobility.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Australian researcher who led the study found that those who helped others were thanked in just one of 20 instances. Jennifer Saarinen, teacher at Kickemuit Middle School Fauteux, who started at Leadership in 2008 as a math teacher, found he was spending just as much time teaching social-emotional competencies as he was teaching math.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. This is the “testing effect,” or the phenomenon where taking a quiz can enhance later retention of studied materials, and its effectiveness has been demonstrated many times over.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. Last year, the company also acquired CritiqueIt, a digital annotation tool, and struck a deal with WeWork so 2U students in its online graduate programs can study in its coworking spaces.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. Universities that contribute the most to educational mobility should receive the most compensation for lost endowment revenues in the future.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. But Hilliard studied the pool of young adults 18 to 24 who lack a high school diploma — 4.3 “Every state has fewer people obtaining high school equivalencies.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort. Journal of Technology Studies, 2 6(2). Education 1.0: Education 1.0

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Some experts estimate that 85 percent of children became less creative between 1990 and 2008. While there is no data yet on the pandemic’s impact on children’s creativity, studies have shown that play has declined during COVID-19, from reduced physical activity (including less time outdoors and fewer sports), and less unstructured play.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 28, 2012

It was nice to be invited to present a session for Sheffield Hallam University on mobile learning earlier today. Mobile learning is going to be very big indeed. One report suggests that as many as 8 out of every 10 people now having access to some form of mobile communication device.

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100mentors

AUGUST 16, 2018

Successful scientists, for example, know from the earliest stages of their studies that phrasing the right question sets the entire course of research, the hypotheses, and the expected outcomes of a research project. Studies in Science Education, 44(1), 1–39. No great discovery has come without some curiosity.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. 2008) Connecting distance learners and their mentors using blogs : The MentorBlog Project, Quarterly Review of Distance Education , 10(4), 3-17. London: Sage.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To June Abbas, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman campus. Details HERE. link] Kyungwon Koh, Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Those sticker prices are a big barrier for policymakers, who must weigh preschool against a wide array of other potential government programs while also trying to minimize or reduce taxes and government spending. Innovation creates new options.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. Lesson 4: Go study other great teachers and other great learning experiences.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. Retrieved 14 April, 2008 from: [link] Kamel Boulos, M. How much will Web 2.0 More on this in future posts on this blog.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 31, 2012

The conference was enhanced by the presence of several very tech savvy young students from primary schools, who took a full part in the proceedings, tweeting and live blogging from the event on their mobile devices. One great innovative idea Karine talked about was particularly useful at engaging kids across the entire curriculum.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Teachers have now started to harness the power of technology and the Web and personal networked devices within their working practice, for organisational, communicative and pedagogical purposes (John and Wheeler, 2008). Now students can assume more responsibility for their own learning and design their own study trajectories.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 19, 2015

Conversely, college graduates have skills that qualify them for a wide range of careers with upward mobility. Because you have studied a topic and degree of interest to you, chances are you will enjoy what you do. Employment opportunities are narrowing for those who only hold high school diplomas. Job Satisfaction. Employment Benefits.

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 5, 2015

Or is this social studies and looking at landmarks? Here’s a map that I created for friends that came to visit while we lived in Shanghai, China from 2005 – 2008. Are you studying your community? Mobile Maps. Google Maps is downloadable on every mobile device I know of and My Maps is as well ( Android , iOS )!

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2016

In the fall of 2008, Ted Gonder was studying economics at the University of Chicago as the world economy melted down around him. “We Each classroom lesson is paired with a financial challenge on Moneythink Mobile, an Instagram-like platform on which students compete between weekly meetings with their mentors.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

Teachers have now started to harness the power of ICT and the web and personal networked computers within their working practice, for organisational, communicative and pedagogical purposes (John and Wheeler, 2008). Now students can assume more responsibility for their own learning and design their own study trajectories. and Moonen, J.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. The publication hailed the “Libraries = Education” equation “a 21st-century model worthy of study and consideration by every library in America, if not the world.” and at the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. The publication hailed the “Libraries = Education” equation “a 21st-century model worthy of study and consideration by every library in America, if not the world.”

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The latest national data from the American Library Association shows that library visits and circulation climbed nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2008. A growing number of libraries are launching mobile websites and smart-phone applications, says Jason Griffey, author of "Mobile Technology and Libraries."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. The publication hailed the “Libraries = Education” equation “a 21st-century model worthy of study and consideration by every library in America, if not the world.”

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Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

It’s the APLU that has most forcefully pushed for tracking individual students through college, which is known as student-unit recordkeeping, and which would make the statistics vastly more precise, but which Congress — lobbied by higher-education groups — banned the government from doing in 2008. College Scorecard.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There are some really interesting MOOCs available and this may be the first year that I actually complete a MOOC because I want to study the topic and not because I’m curious about the technology and pedagogy being used. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 17, 2009

Back in November 2008 I published Part 1 of a series of articles intended to explore the use of WebCams in education. EyeJot is another simple video email app which also has a mobile version. These could be exam tips, study tips, recommended website etc.(The Skype is of course the mainstream choice for synchronous communication.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In 2008, the bill that finally made it through the legislature gave grandparents a way to get a power of attorney without spending the time and money to secure guardianship or full custody of the children they were raising. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off. To me, they’re my family and that’s it,” Banks said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2019

It takes into account recent changes such as connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization of learning to dramatically shift how schools have been run for over a century. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. by Clayton M. Christensen.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

There are some really interesting MOOCs available and this may be the first year that I actually complete a MOOC because I want to study the topic and not because I’m curious about the technology and pedagogy being used. This idea has been bubbling along for almost six years since Dave Cormier wrote about the concept in 2008.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

These were the messages that influenced their decisions to pay exorbitant tuition prices when choosing their academic and career pathways, ultimately leading many underprepared and fiscally ignorant souls to secure student loans in an effort to reach economic mobility. However, insufficient financial literacy is also partly to blame.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. Maybe it will.).

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