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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

Feeling squeezed, for-profit publishers are searching for new revenue by selling colleges digital homework systems that charge students up to $100 for a semester’s worth of access. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.” Then the Great Recession hit. “A A lot of students weren’t able to get jobs.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

Through the migration, users will be able to access Activate’s resources via Gooru, which will give educators a free platform to find high-quality resources as well as the ability to run real-time analytics on student performance and engagement. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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Web 2.0 Tools

MSEDTechie

A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. ToonDoo ToonDoo: Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss KERPOOF Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. Forum WIKI What is wiki? ?

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

We talked for instance about how technology would streamline assessment, and how the curriculum might be impacted by new technologies. Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.