Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 31, 2021

Restarting and reinventing school: Learning in the time of COVID and beyond. Now is the time to redefine learning – not recreate traditional school online. Some school systems will use technology in some different ways after the pandemic. If all we offer is uninspiring learning, we’re in trouble.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

During a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by The ProEthica® Program, the superintendent of one of America’s largest school districts spoke with a former state superintendent and other education leaders about key issues affecting students, parents, and educators, including digital access and equity, online privacy, and funding.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. 3D learning. However, the whole system changes with the introduction of 3D learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Today’s students see themselves as digital natives , the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers certainly acknowledge the growing influence of technology and have responded in kind. But we’ve found that’s not necessarily true. Patricia A.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Over the last year, he’s helped Khan Academy manage a three-fold user increase, has grown and developed an online program geared toward early learners, and launched a new peer-to-peer tutoring platform to keep students connected and learning during the pandemic. Everyone used to ask me, “What about early learning?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Last year, families left the public system in unprecedented numbers , as schools wrestled with developing their online learning muscle while trying to ensure that their most vulnerable students were fed and emotionally supported. One key learning is that virtual schooling has value and will continue to grow.

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techlearning

APRIL 16, 2015

FEATURESThe “Blended” Classroom Revolution Virtual Technology Goes to SchoolWhile virtual schools, which currently serve only a tiny fraction ofthe nation’s 48 million K12 students, get all the buzz, a muchbigger, largely untold story of online learning is unfolding inAmerica’s brick. Techlearning News'

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. Customers of Edulence’s learning management system, Knowledgelink, include Lincoln Financial Group and AARP Services.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Now that we have powerful, easy-to-use design tools and a capacity for worldwide publishing, we have an opportunity to restore the dignity and integrity of a work ethic by redefining the role of the learner as a contributor to the learning culture. — Alan November, Who Owns the Learning. What’s Good for the Goose….

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. Introduction.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 12, 2020

Let's start with collaborative online spaces. It relates to critical writing on wikis, but it can be applied to just about any collaborative online learning space: There is a spectrum of wiki activities that can be used to encourage critical thinking in writing. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Continues in the next post.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

It’s important to recognize that this crisis will likely only accelerate the march of automation and the adoption of various labor-replacing technologies, including machine learning and AI. Yet, just as this crisis is prompting reevaluation of our country’s social safety nets (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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The Thinking Stick

MARCH 8, 2020

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. I have had experience with “Going Virtual School” three times in my career and every time it was similar and yet different due to the technology we had.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Are you ready to learn the basics?”. Few other districts had embraced the promise of technology as enthusiastically as this Long Island district. Each student already had a device that all but the youngest took home every day, and some spent hours a day working online in school. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Is learning in the 21 st Century significantly different to learning in previous years? All of the above theories tend to characterise younger learners as being different to previous generations in their use of technology. There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position. There is further yet dissent.

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Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 71

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The goal of Tech4TeacherEd is to provide a free professional learning community where undergraduate and graduate pre-service candidates can discover information about integrating technology into teaching and learning, a wide range of resources for educators, and the ISTE Standards for Students, Educators, Education Leaders and Tech Coaches.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 11, 2015

There is a growing need for today’s pre-service teachers to be equipped with skills and competencies for blended, online, and technology-rich teaching and learning environments. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It is long-term embedded learning with a Master Teacher. Now you can have the same experience online. This is the reason when school districts contact us at Eduro Learning to help teachers understand the changing nature of teaching and learning in a connected classroom, the first thing we tell them is: It takes time.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice. It is your personal network. It is your virtual community.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Look out for rhizomatic learning. It doesn’t matter because the changes to higher education are happening because of economics, demographics and, most of all, technology. Introduction.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With headlines like “ Virtual Reality Learns How to Get Into Classroom ,” which The Wall Street Journal ran this February, the hype cycle around VR’s potential in education has returned. This time, a medley of new players—especially technology magnates—are jumping in the fray: Facebook. But it didn’t happen. At its peak in 2010, 1.1

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 This makes Byju’s one of the rare unicorns in education technology and the fourth most valuable privately held company in India. million annual subscribers who pay between $150 to $200 each.

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The Electric Educator

MAY 9, 2011

Despite the misconceptions held by the general public regarding online learning, several comparative studies have determined that there is no significant difference in the outcomes of online classrooms when compared to traditional face-to-face classrooms. The key is determining the attributes of a successful online student.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When you don’t have basic needs met, you can’t learn.”. “I Having to shift to online learning because of the pandemic “has definitely affected our motivation,” said Emmanuella Agyemang, a 16-year-old junior at University Heights High School in the Bronx who plans to go to college and wants to be a journalist.

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The Electric Educator

MAY 11, 2011

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relative infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. This week I will be posting four keys to student success in online courses. online learning' 2006): 425-448.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Is learning in the 21 st Century significantly different to learning in previous years? All of the above theories tend to characterise younger learners as being different to previous generations in their use of technology. There are, inevitably, objections to the Digital Natives position. There is yet further dissent.

Technology 29

Technology STEM Tools Online Learning 29

The Electric Educator

MAY 12, 2011

Note: While research regarding best practices for online learning is difficult to obtain due to the relatively infancy of the industry, four key areas of focus critical to program success have been identified. This week I will be posting four keys to student success in online courses. online learning' 29 Apr 2011.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This is another reaction I wrote to assigned reading for the graduate course I am taking through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Technology and School Leadership. Second, students in both instructional approaches are expected to be participants in the learning. title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. Forzani, E. Jenkins, H.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Aldrich is also the author of Unschooling Rules (Greenleaf, 2011) and four earlier books: Simulations and the Future of Learning (Wiley, 2004), Learning By Doing (Wiley, 2005), The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games (Wiley, 2009), and Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds (Wiley, 2009).

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