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

Doug Levin

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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#ISTE17 Day Three

EdTechSandyK

During the final day of ISTE 2017 , I spent some time perusing the Exhibit Hall in between a great workshop on building digital portfolios with Google Sites and a session on using Open Educational Resources (OER). So, there were fewer tweets yesterday, and the majority of them were from the OER session. Thank you!!!!

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Pearson officials did not respond in time for the story.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and also give me a follow… on Twitter at mjgormans. A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. Open Education Resources – Talk about big, this network brings together 44,129 OER tools for sharing curriculum.

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2017 Global Education Conference - 39 Live Sessions on Tuesday, Day Two!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Note: you need to be a member and logged into the conference site (all free, of course): [link] Follow the Twitter conversation with #globaled17 Responses to Monday's Sessions: "Very informative and motivational. What a wonderful speaker! The gaming component is AWESOME!" "a a lot of useful links and interesting information.

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Recent & Upcoming Conversations on Open & Networked Learning

ProfHacker

Watch recording below (or read the storify by Robert Schuwer, and some crowd-curated select quotes from blogs Twitter and the hangout itself): This conversation was sparked by controversy over David Wiley’s initial blogpost (he has since revised his view) on what open pedagogy is, as part of the #YearOfOpen invited posts.

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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. or Paper.li

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