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Are America’s colleges promoting social mobility?

The Hechinger Report

Stories of upward mobility were once a key feature of American life. But upward mobility has stalled, according to Brown University economist John Friedman. “By In particular, they want to know which colleges in America are doing the most to promote upward mobility. The post Are America’s colleges promoting social mobility?

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Who Else is Collecting Data About Your Children?

Securly

Websites must (1) provide notice of what type of information is being collected and what it is being used for (2) obtain verifiable parental consent for collection/use of said information and (3) establish procedures to ensure confidentiality of data collected. Regardless, 10 years later, data collection came to be mostly implicit.

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Who else is collecting data about your children?

Securly

Websites must (1) provide notice of what type of information is being collected and what it is being used for (2) obtain verifiable parental consent for collection/use of said information and (3) establish procedures to ensure confidentiality of data collected. Regardless, 10 years later, data collection came to be mostly implicit.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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Evaluating authentic mobile apps for learning

Nik Peachey

Back in April 2013 I delivered a workshop at the IATEFL 2013 conference in Liverpool. Check out my ebook As a result of that workshop and the research that developed from it I've now developed this list of criteria for evaluating mobile apps for educational purposes. Security - Is the app secure? Security - Is the app secure?

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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. For 2013, the focus is on a variety of challenges, from how learners access content to how the idea of a “curriculum” is defined.

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The mobile agenda

Learning with 'e's

2013 was quite a busy year for me. During the conference series, I worked closely with Denise Hudson-Lawson and Andrew Jacobs , two of the other invited speakers, in workshops on mobile learning. It also presents new challenges for organisations around interoperability, data protection/security, personal metrics and privacy.