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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

Edsurge

That’s the pitch behind GitHub ’s announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access—for free—its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects.

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The Social Media Game Elementary School Students Should Be Playing

The Innovative Educator

Most recently I had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of elementary students about social media and which platforms they are using. MovieStarPlanet is a blend of Facebook and YouTube with a learning dimension added." New levels give access to new animations and access to chat rooms reserved for MovieStars at higher levels.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. users moved from just accessing information and content to being able to directly interact with the content through commenting, remixing, and sharing it via social networks. Education 2.0: Education 2.0,

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Microsoft to spend $75M to boost computer science

eSchool News

Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. Kevin Wang, a Microsoft engineer with a master’s degree in education from Harvard, proposed the idea in 2009 after volunteering as a computer science teacher at a Seattle public high school.

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How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

MindShift

We grew up having our questions instantly answered as long as we had access to the Internet. Some argue that with easy access to information, we have more space in our brain to engage in creative activities, as humans have in the past. Of the studies available, the answers are sometimes unclear. seems to share Carr’s concerns.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Yale University announced this week that its alumni would gain free access to JSTOR , an online archive of scholarly journals.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. this CNN The Daily Show where Trevor Noah interviews Greta Thunberg: [link] and this screen shot from the interview, which is trending on Facebook: [link] Reference Stevens, V. Who are we? In Son, J.-B.