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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

Edsurge

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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How to Schedule a Time to Meet with Other Classes

The CoolCatTeacher

In this demonstration, I’m using Google Calendar. These are OER and ready for you to use.). How to Use this Tutorial to Help Teachers Learn Google Calendar. Also, note that I made some common mistakes (and fixed them) that teachers have when working with Google Calendars. For this tutorial, we use Google Calendar.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad.

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Up To 20 Free Resources and Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I am almost booked through January and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. OER Commons. About: One of the largest data bases of OER (Open Education Resources) for free classroom use. Google Advanced Search. About: This portion of Google provides scaffolding important in conducting a proper search.

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Maha, the Path to OER-Enabled Pedagogy, and Technological Determinism

Iterating Toward Openness

Among other things, the post discusses her role in my decision to abandon the phrase “open pedagogy” and adopt the phrase “OER-enabled pedagogy.” Notes on Open Pedagogy (2016), a response to some writing by Mary Burgess and Amanda Coolidge. ” (For more detail, reference the blog posts listed above.).

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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