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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Go to coolcatteacher.com/modern right now to sign up for the Modern Classrooms essential course for free where you will learn about the strategies, research, and resources that can drive student-centered, self-directed learning in your classroom.

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The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.

Edsurge

In that brief interim, the institution made Zoom available to everyone—possibly the fastest rollout of any tech in the university’s history, says Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer. I feel that the world is moving more and more toward blended learning,” he adds. “I

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What does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade

Linways Technologies

We have written about some of these changes in our previous blog: “ 7 powerful shifts towards the future of learning that is changing education ”. Even though technologies like the VR, AR, and AI hasn’t quite penetrated into the classrooms yet, at the current rate, it will probably happen within the next decade or so. How do we learn.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 University of Houston System via Coursera. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera.

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8 teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

eSchool News

Information technology has already changed the way education is provided and it continues to make even more impact with new apps that are designed every week. For Online Courses/Blended Learning. Coursera is known to work with both K-12 and higher education institutions and provide them with access to online courses.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

With all its bells, whistles, apps and toys, technology also creates anxiety for both parents and educators, and research is going to have to follow the charge ahead. Guernsey is a big fan of reminding parents that technology can’t possibly replace other interactions that both teachers and parents might have with children.

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Can Fluent City, Backed By $2.5M in Funding, Build a Modern Culture School?

Edsurge

Blended learning is the way to go for them, Rohrbach says. “I I kind of see [us] as the anti-Coursera,” he says. Fluent City and its teachers use proprietary 200-page textbooks as guides for language classes offered at seven different levels. You don’t want to be by yourself in front of a computer.”.