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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0;

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0;

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How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

Edsurge

Getting a C is just the first step in a process of actually learning something, not the demonstration that you hadn't learned it. We focus on technology in education, and these days there’s a lot of talk about trends like adaptive learning and flipped classrooms.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Five people presented. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms. We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. I served as moderator. So I think you’re focused on the right place.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)

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