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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - SLS14 Expanded! - Open Natural Math Class - Educate to Liberate or Control?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Common Core Camp in UAE , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here. Saturday, March 22nd at the Dubai Modern Education School, UAE Know.Do.Serve.Learn. Learn more here.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Common Core) for individual students. A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012). Rather than an outcomes-based and standards-driven approach, it instead seeks local accountability, new knowledge types, and overtly “human” learning models. Individualized Learning. The customizing of universal content (e.g.,

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Common Core State Standards. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech.

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Anti- Common Core Groups Unhappy About Trump Ed Secretary Pick Betsy DeVos ,” says the Sunshine State News. ’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” million to Ohio.”