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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). OER – Open Educational Resource (this can be any online materials that are free to use). Windows, Android). API – Application Programming Interface. AUP – Acceptable Use Policy. BYOD – Bring Your Own Device. BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The business of OER. Via Quartz : “ Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled.” ” Via EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin : “The COPPA Rule, FERPA , and the Security of Student Data.” TBH, I still can’t remember what Unizin actually is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Campus Technology : “ Udacity has announced a partnership with a ride-sharing service in China to host a $100,000 prize competition to find the best machine learning strategy to improve customer experience.” Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright.

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