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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Think of it as a cheat sheet to help you learn all you need to know about technology in the classroom! Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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New learning environments: The challenge and the promise #EDENchat

Learning with 'e's

New trends have emerged including blended learning , personalised learning environments ( PLEs ) Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), mobile learning and the flipped classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Project-based learning in social studies (using Ebay to teach economics) and science (collaborative efforts with the local police and fire departments to teach physical science concepts) will be highlighted. Finally, another science teacher will briefly share exercises in engineering design. Details to join the webinar at [link].

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Learning (And 7 Ways to Repent)

Edsurge

There are too many generalizations—online and blended learning isn't a single entity. As an example, Brown pointed to his own university, which last week ran a 24-hour live brainstorming exercise that invited anyone to share their ideas about what the college should be working on. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Karen Cameron shares this 8 step exercise to teach students (and teachers) how to actively listen to their peers. shares the guidelines, rules, and reflective activities associated with this exercise. Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Her post, Do You Hear Me Now?

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens.