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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology. Visual learners do best when information is presented graphically, be it in the form of illustrations, charts, diagrams, or photos.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. That’s what competency-based education is about – giving students a voice in how they show what they’ve learned. This is one thing the schools in New Hampshire appear to do well.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.)

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Acquisition & the Teacher

Fractus Learning

What is the teacher’s role in an acquisition-oriented learning model? Student Centred Learning is the goal du jour amongst teachers—especially those in the EFL/ESL world. I’ll start by readdressing Student Centred Learning, outlining what our goal really is when we decide to work towards a student-centered classroom.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: Another big step for gesture-based learning ?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Teenagers 3d printing local history: technology, pedagogy, and inspiration in Vermont

Bryan Alexander

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. This contest was definitely an example of the latter. who celebrated this as a fine, creative way to teach and learn history. These projects were, in short, microcosms of social learning.