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What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Because of the unique demands of asynchronous learning, curriculum, assessment, and instruction all have to be designed to make this not just possible, but likely. scheduling, age-grouping, separation by content area, etc.). scheduling, age-grouping, separation by content area, etc.). ” What Do Asynchronous Learners Need?

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Yet, one group was struggling for ideas. That excitement was always communicated around my group very quickly and with a remarkable degree of fluency. This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context.

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Let your robots do the marking?

Learning with 'e's

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. Unported License.

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From “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven”

The Principal of Change

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act. ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Thoughts on Kevin Carey’s University of Everywhere

Bryan Alexander

The Washington Post offered a taste of it with an overview article, “ One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, and you get an education, not a degree “, which I’ll summarize here. Assessment will involve increasingly strong AI, open credentialing, and open badging, relying on a mix of texts and digital projects.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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