Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

During #KyEdChat, a Twitter chat for Kentucky educators I regularly participate in and sometimes moderate, I found myself in a conversation with some members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) about the need to play, and the difficulty and resistance we often face in trying to get teachers to buy into the idea of playing to learn.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 2, 2015

“Learn anytime, anywhere” is proudly proclaimed when educators effuse all the benefits of learning via online courses and through social media such as Twitter. Matt Renwick (@ReadByExample) July 26, 2015. What didn’t make the cut: My laptop, my smartphone, and anything school-related.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 11, 2015

Sir Ken Robinson at BETT 2015. I’ve had a blue screen of death manifest 6 minutes before one talk, an internet connection fail, a projector decide to rotate everything 90 degrees, three laptops in a row fail , and a shade-less window bathe my screen in all-obliterating light, among other last-minute crises. Check out the space.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. Social Media is a huge way to incorporate technology that students use everyday in the classroom.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Roundup of the most popular posts in 2015 on The Innovative Educator blog. Overall the most popular posts were those relating to research, bring your own device, and harnessing the power of social media in general and Twitter in particular. 19 points out my very favorite laptop device. The Chromebook Flip.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

I’ve spent my free time socializing with other educators and participating in Twitter chats and Facebook groups about teaching. I try to shut the laptop in the afternoon and not look at or think about any of it again until morning. I would spend hours and hours a day on it, and I loved it. .

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. That's a lot of computers. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent. million records going up for sale on the Dark Web.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Privacy and surveillance Late 2015 saw an ISIS- and tv news fueled panic about terrorism, which turned to technology. Now there’s a bipartisan interest in cracking down on social media ( thank you Trump and Clinton ), plus a drive to weaken encryption so the NSA can have better eyes with which to see you. People (i.e.,

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Learning in Hand

JANUARY 6, 2015

Episode 30: Producing Infopics, recorded January 2015, happens now! I added text on top of the screenshot and shared the final product on Twitter and Facebook with a link to the video. But you can certainly create infopics on a Chromebook, laptop, or desktop computer. Follow Jonathan on Twitter or Instagram.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

She is co-author of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids (Wiley, 2015). She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there was Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest. Dr. Pope co-hosts the podcast "School's In" on Sirius XM radio. and other countries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Online Grade Portals. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4. inmate problem?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. Should you ban laptops ? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ?

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