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

Edsurge

GitHub is where many companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, host their open-source projects. The following year, it created GitHub Classroom, which allows teachers to distribute and review assignments. Earlier this year it acquired the team behind Chalkup , a classroom management software.

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FAQs For Educational Bloggers

The Web20Classroom

I’ve had this blog since 2009. Not only to share the resources they find and use in and out of the classroom but to look back on our personal practices of both learning and growing as professional educators. Are you an elementary teacher? Read elementary blogs. FAQs for Educational Bloggers I want start a blog.

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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

Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. The teachers or administrators decide what is most important for the students to learn with little regard to the student interests.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Skype took off and more and more teachers are using it in the classroom. I want to be hip. So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. How did I do?

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Elevating the Education Reform Dialog, Live on Monday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Between the NBC "Education Nation" Summit , Waiting for Superman , The Oprah Winfrey Show , and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg''s $100 million gift to Newark city schools , there has been a lot of media attention focused on the topic of education reform. Unfortunately, much of it has excluded actual educators, let alone students.

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How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

MindShift

That phenomenon is similar to not remembering your friend’s birthday because you know you can find it on Facebook. ‘I’m Always On My Computer’ Michele Nelson, an art teacher at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel Hill, N.C., seems to share Carr’s concerns. “I’m always on my computer.

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Week of February 27, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Explore the iPad and some great apps for the middle school classroom. Where and how to start with technology, how do you get connected, how to find a learning network etc right through to today, where Penny has commenced a facebook page for her network, is actively involved online and keen to teach online. link] CLASSROOM 2.0