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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

It also helps schools reach goals like higher student success, better data analysis, more robust cybersecurity and easier access to education technology, the report’s authors explain. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! by Eli Zimmerman.

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The League of Innovative Schools’ 12 Days of Innovation

Digital Promise

Planning a Social Network Analysis. OER and Deeper Learning for the Next Generation Science Standards: Supporting deeper learning in NGSS through challenge-based projects and formative assessment tools. To keep updated with the League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters, follow #DPLIS and #EdClusters on Twitter.

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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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Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015

Bryan Alexander

Many quiet signs of OER. ” On Twitter I asked her for access to the slides, and she promptly webbed them up. And Twitter! The Sydney-led BEST Network is an example of this, as is the very interesting Smart Sparrow (I hope to blog more about them later on). This might complement, but is different from data analytics.

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

Doug Levin

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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Part 5…Beyond the Shine : Supporting Technology with the SAMR Model plus Ten Great Resource Sites

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @mjgormans ). Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. While students use traditional literary critique, a word cloud might provide a new analysis, such as a visual look at word frequency in a reading.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.