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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. According to statistics published by Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman, only 4% of the school and education system was interested in cloud computing in 2009.

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Live Tuesday February 28th with David Weinberger on How the Internet Is Transforming Knowledge and Expertise

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 01:00 GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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"Digital Literacy & Fake News" Keynote Panelists Announced + First Sessions for Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're excited to announce the keynote panelists for our our second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Digital Literacy + Fake News," which will be held online ( and for free ) on Thursday, June 1st, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join the Library 2.0 YouTube channel.

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Final Schedule for Tomorrow's "Digital Literacy & Fake News" Mini-Conference - Plus Bonus

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tomorrow (Thursday, June 1st) is our second of three Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Digital Literacy + Fake News," being held online ( and for free ) from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We invite all library professionals, educators, students, and others to participate this event.

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When the children leave: What’s left after a mass exodus of young people from Puerto Rico?

The Hechinger Report

In 2009 Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez was a middle school theater teacher in Puerto Rico. Chairs in front of a blackboard in one of the empty classrooms at the Goyco school in San Juan. In October 2009 she found work in Chicago, as the resident art director of a youth theater organization. I had like 40-something students.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**. IT and academic computing departments, plus the library, would be revolutionized. In education, wait for Blackboard and Microsoft to make this as sales pitch. The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets.

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