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Learning comes first

Learning with 'e's

Not only are MOOCs and other open, online learning opportunities challenging more established business models, they are also causing many of us to re-evaluate the way we teach, and to reconsider the very nature of knowledge, intellectual property, copyright, assessment and collaboration.

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

Edsurge

The tool, which recently surpassed more than one million flashcards, uses artificial intelligence to generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and other quiz-based flashcards from user-uploaded PDFs, URLs, or even photos of handwritten notes or textbooks taken using the PrepFlash mobile app. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io

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Removing the Obstacles in Education so Innovation and Academics Can Flourish

The Principal of Change

If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms. Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

GoConqr

Mobile learning. It is therefore important that eLearning content is mobile supported. Many online learning platforms can be used with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Because mobile learning is a trend, one’s own online content should always be tested for smartphone and tablet use.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. Mobile Learning. The study of teaching adults. An initialism that stands for “Bring Your Own Device.”

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - SLS14 Expanded! - Open Natural Math Class - Educate to Liberate or Control?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] Digital Wish : Two new videos - The Importance of Technology in American Schools and The Need for a Shift to Mobile. Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Check them out! Join here ! But what about content?

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The quotation is from 2012.

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