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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom .

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science. Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts. One of the best ways to do this is to seek out inspiration from other learning designers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. From adaptive learning to adaptive learners Siemens worries that current education systems aren’t adjusting to this new reality.

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

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We focus on technology in education, and these days there’s a lot of talk about trends like adaptive learning and flipped classrooms. How helpful do you think these types of tech innovations will be, or can a low-tech solution be more helpful? So I think some of those things can be very valuable.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. Some cities and states are considering making computer science compulsory – in Chicago , Virginia , Queensland , for example.