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Friday - Final Day of the Learning 2.0 Conference with Sugata Mitra, Audrey Watters, Angela Maiers, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, and More!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Audrey Watters denounces robot learning. Once you are seeing the calendar, you can click on any session title to copy the link into the Blackboard Collaborate room for that session. Tonight we almost reached 5,000 attendee logins for the week--wahoo! And have we got a great day planned for you! Angela Meiers reminds us that we matter.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)

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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

Curating the Best Content for Learning , Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. There’s a lot of great games, apps, websites, and digital curricula to go along with tablets and computers. But what about content?

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. VITALSOURCE & BLACKBOARD ( get.vitalsource.com ) & ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard Inc. Type C ports.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Digital information is highly prone to decay – even more than paper, ironically enough, which was already a more fragile and flammable technology than the stone tablets that it replaced. If you set fire to a bunch stone tablets, you further preserve the lettering.

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets. Laptops keep mutating into new forms, extra-light, Chromebook, tablet hybrid, and so on. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. ” That was true for a while.

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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

Charles, IL Common Sense Media - 1-to-1 Essentials: A Roadmap for Schools , Learn about Common Sense Media’s 1-to-1 Essentials Program, a roadmap for schools implementing 1-to-1 tablets. Join via Blackboard Collaborate here. Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. Learn more here. Thanks for sharing, Karen!