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Acknowledging Change in Schools

The Principal of Change

George Couros (@gcouros) December 12, 2016. Here are some of the thoughts that I received: @gcouros more efforts and realization that learning should be more personal. Dean Shareski (@shareski) December 12, 2016. Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) December 12, 2016. Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) December 12, 2016.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Many schools are moving toward these goals by adopting pedagogies like project-based learning and competency-based learning that allow students to move more organically between academic tasks and rely less on rigid bell schedules and siloed disciplines.

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How Listening and Sharing Help Shape Collaborative Learning Experiences

MindShift

Excerpted from “ The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them ,” (c) 2016 by Daniel L. ” Learning more together than alone. .” ” Learning more together than alone. Listening and sharing are the cornerstones of collaborative learning.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. 2016 – the phones in their pockets.

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What is Blended Learning? Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

When implementing blended learning within the classroom, teachers may have to produce additional materials for the pupils to use. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. The blended learning landscape in 2018.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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