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What Will It Take to Push the K-12 Maker Movement to Be More Inclusive?

Edsurge

These days, schools are trying to figure out how to bring making into every facet of the school day, with mobile kits, clubs and more. But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect. It’s not solely about having a “makerspace” anymore. It was fun.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participatory, hyperlinked library services; DIY and maker movements; emerging technology in academic and research libraries; Google Glass—our Library 2.014 conference covered a broad range of topics and these were among the most notable. Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook.

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Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset Review: Awesome VR in 360

The CoolCatTeacher

We can bring Google Cardboard and our mobile phones into our classrooms (which I’ve certainly done, and it’s been very useful), but virtual reality is so much more. Now, I’m not saying we’ll stop needing real teachers, because the world will always need teachers.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

Access to mobile technology especially has helped students feel comfortable in the role of digital creator. Blended Learning: Blended learning, or the use of technology alongside in-person instruction from a teacher, has been included in the NMC Horizons report before. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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The Top 50 Best Books for Teachers – Professional Development

Fractus Learning

It takes into account recent changes such as ubiquitous connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization to dramatically shift how schools have been run and structured for over a century. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools – Michael B. Best Books for Teachers 31-40.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Planned obsolescence of mobile technology. Maker Movement. Falling cost of mobile devices, which impacts what’s affordable, who shows up to school with what on their own, school budgets, etc. The adoption of blended learning approaches through learning management systems.

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13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years

TeachThought - Learn better.

“Curriculum” is a flexible enough term that it can bend to accept new approaches to learning, but ultimately, it may be replaced entirely. Learning playlists will serve as a middle ground between top-down pedagogy, and pure heutagogy , just as blended learning bridges current K-12 models with eLearning. Which is bad.