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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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While Cardona has “not only the knowledge base, but the experience” for the job, one of his greatest attributes, according to Robles-Rivas, is his ability to find and surround himself with smart, capable people who can help him push his agenda forward.

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How Can School Leaders Personalize Learning? New Book Offers a Guide.

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Rubin spent 10 years in the classroom, and he has been the Chief Education officer at the HIghlander Institute since 2011, and has led personalized learning efforts in Rhode Island schools. One of the ways that we balance it is by deeply relying on the knowledge base of our local stakeholders. How do we balance?

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Considering OpenClass to Manage Your Classes? Check out these Resources (and the P.S.)

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It''s new and in beta and there doesn''t seem to be too much in the news about it, other than its launching at EDUCAUSE in October, 2011. Pearson''s Announcement launching OpenClass in October, 2011. Here are some articles announcing the launching of OpenClass. Read about how he Wants to Put Learning-Management Software in the Cloud.

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Week of January 24, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy. A national and global perspective on the future trends in education, expectations for students, and what strategies schools need to have in place will be shared.

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Live Interview Thursday, February 3rd - Karen Hume on "Engaging the 21st Century Learner"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Thursday, February 3, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Join me Thursday, February 3rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Hume on her book Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner. Log in at [link].

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Applying Past Knowledge: Making the Invisible, Visible

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Giving students lifeworthy experiences helps them build or construct that knowledge base for later use. He was the 2011 Nebraska Teacher of the Year. Not everything we learn is likely to fill that bill but just about anything you do learn has the possibility of helping you solve a problem at some point in your life.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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