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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

Edsurge

For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” There’s a lot left to learn about how to teach kids and teens online, the handbook acknowledges. Weighing in at more than 700 pages, the guide explains the history of online education in the U.S. These students aren’t ‘real’?

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

a statistical-services company based in Rockville, Maryland. The Occupational Outlook Handbook , published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, finds that the number of statisticians will grow by 27% between 2012 and 2022, far outpacing the projected 11% growth rate for all other career fields.

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Bloom and bust

Learning with 'e's

Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. Handbook II: Affective Domain. New York: David McKay Company. Available online at: [link] (Accessed 22 June, 2012) Bloom's Taxonomy image source Bloom and bust by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New York: Longmans. Krathwohl, D. and Masia, B. Ormell, C.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

How much of “personalized learning” as imagined and built and sold by tech companies is precisely this: metrics, marketing, conversion rates, customer satisfaction? Institutions face an enormous crisis today – one of credibility and trust, one that Chris Hayes identified in 2012 in his book Twilight of the Elites.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

The Verification Handbooks are a wonderful lens into this complicated process.). content farm or content mill : a company that employs a staff of freelance writers to create content designed to satisfy search engine retrieval algorithms with the goal of attracting views and advertising revenue. On news literacy. ” ( Wikipedia ).