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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session!

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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

Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Do you have students or library users ages 9 - 17 that can answer the questions Do you have what it takes to put a robot on the Moon? Saturday, March 22nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Erin Klein , Classroom 2.0

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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

Join via Blackboard Collaborate here. shares the guidelines, rules, and reflective activities associated with this exercise. Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. See examples of how Shannon and I are doing it (poetry summit, virtual debate, author visits, class vista etc). Her post, Do You Hear Me Now?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Inside Higher Ed reports that “ Fannie Mae , the largest backer of mortgage credit in the country, has issued new guidelines allowing home owners to refinance their mortgage s to pay off their student loan debt. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Data and “Research” SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) America and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued new guidelines for recess , because we seem to have forgotten what that looks like. ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

of Maryland Removes ‘Misogynistic’ Guidelines for TAs.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” A Historian Says They Should Capitalize on the Hype.”