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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link]. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

EdTech 301
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Facebook Expands ?Community Boost? Initiative with College Partnerships in Chicago

Edsurge

In 2017 Facebook claimed more than 4 million companies advertise on its platform, and more than 500,000 companies advertise on Instagram. There is a digital skills gap, and we hope to be apart of decreasing that digital skills gap,” says Parisa Zagat, policy programs manager at Facebook, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. Be active: Prioritize active digital activities, like online learning games or interactive lessons, over passive activities, like watching a video.

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Are You R.E.A.D.Y. as a School to be Good Digital Citizens

techlearning

This leads to a cross roads of districts pushing digital learning into schools with teachers who may not be trained in the use of safe online instruction and hence the problem of a fear of the internet. Launching technology lessons or creating online learning is a huge responsibility.

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Tart Retorts and Tools: Overheard at SXSWedu

Edsurge

But 76 percent of kids prefer to get their news from social media (especially from Facebook). A (VR) TRIP TO PAKISTAN: PenPal Schools, an Austin-based online learning organization, announced Monday the release of its latest course: VR Field Trip to Pakistan. Jin-Soo Huh (@JinSooDHuh) March 7, 2017.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”

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Dealing with digital distraction

The Hechinger Report

Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. In data collected by Cal State Dominguez Hills’ psychologist Larry Rosen, his students’ average daily phone use jumped from 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2016 to 4 hours and 22 minutes in 2017.