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

Edsurge

Digital Literacy While players in a school environment can turn to each other for assistance and support, they may also visit the numerous Minecraft-dedicated wikis, blogs or YouTube channels for inspiration. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. Language Learning and Minecraft. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. Even in an age of abundant information many still see the course content as being the ‘product’ that is being provided to learners. When I started as an academic life was easy. It’s not.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. Even in an age of abundant information many still see the course content as being the ‘product’ that is being provided to learners. When I started as an academic life was easy. It’s not.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Week's Events - GlobalEd Waitlist - CoSN - Google Forms - Breaking Down Library Walls - Better Than College - OZeLive Kudos

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2014, we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of GlobalEdCon and we''re excited to share information about our future plans with you at this face-to-face event. Mark your calendars for April 21st - 25th, and look for more information in this Thursday''s special announcement. For more information, click here. Read more here.

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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. Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak. You can now find out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. “Kidtech startup SuperAwesome is now valued at $100+ million and profitable,” Techcrunch informs us. .” Of course.