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A World of PBL… 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Mike Gorman.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

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For Lee, it began with a pair of glasses—or rather, the ones he forgot to bring to an urban planning conference in 2013. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The red stairway leading to Gate 510, which houses this year’s PilotCity summer fellows.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Sony and IBM, for example, say they have developed a system for storing education records using blockchain technology, which relies on people called “miners” to solve cryptography problems in order to add transactions (in this case, digital transcripts) to the ledger. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout.

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A World of PBL: 25 Authentic Resources To Connect Students Beyond The Classroom

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At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. The Global Math Challenge – Global Math Challenge (GMC) is a worldwide math competition held online and hosted by Sony Global Education, Inc. You may need to get parent permission.

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

MindShift

In an address to the VRX conference in San Francisco, noted game developer and tech wizard, Jesse Schell predicted that over 8 million VR gamer headsets will be sold in 2016. All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

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In May, Buzzfeed reported that the ACICS had held a training session at its annual conference in which it explained to for-profit universities how to avoid scrutiny and lawsuits from states’ attorneys general. No surprise, with the built-in necessity of testing, competency-based education is lauded by assessment companies.