Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

With so much out there, it can be difficult to figure out what is and isn't suitable for classroom use -- not to mention what will interest students long enough to tear them away from what’s trending on social media.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 30, 2011

There is no mention for example of the New Zealand based OER University (or its founder Wayne McIntosh) and the ground breaking work they are doing to transform open educational practices in higher education. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity.

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Tech Helpful

APRIL 4, 2016

There is such a great wealth of teaching ideas and strategies out there for us on social media but we have a responsibility to curate that information. Perhaps blogging, mystery Skype, or contacting an author/skilled subject matter expert while teaching the skill of business letters and email etiquette would be a good thing to take on.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 29, 2012

Digital Learning Futures View more presentations from Steve Wheeler As I write this blog post, the above slideshow has received almost 18,000 views in just 48 hours since it was posted up onto Slideshare. My audience has been extended beyond the walls of the event to a global classroom through the amazing power of social media.

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Digital Learning Social Media Gamification Learning 58

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I usually feature them on this blog under the banner of 10Q - ten questions. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. social media developments of the late 00s this was quite small scale. Read Martin''s blog, the EdTechie. Analytics - good and bad uses of this.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. He currently writes at Designing Better Libraries, a blog about design thinking and library user experiences. KEYNOTE PANEL: (organized and moderated by John Shank and Steven Bell - more to come!)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

In science fiction novels like “Little Brother,” he has explored the implications of mass surveillance, and on the popular blog Boing Boing , he has written on topics such as net neutrality, open access and user privacy. I wanted to ask you about OERs. EdSurge recently sat down with Doctorow in San Jose, Calif.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. To review Dr. Stephen’s archive of work, visit his Tame the Web website and blog [link]. She recently published the Social Media Curation, a Library Technology Report for ALA.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” And folks are looking at blog posts the student wrote for class. Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “First Ed-Tech Trade Mission by U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. He currently writes at Designing Better Libraries, a blog about design thinking and library user experiences. Steven is a past-president of ACRL.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The current schedule is in a blog post from me. The theme of this three-day online and free conference, February 26 - 28 in Australia/New Zealand time zones, is "Connected Educators Shine on the World Stage." Join the fun and see the up-to-date conference schedule in your own time zone at OZeLive.com or at [link]. Save the dates!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Also remember to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and follow me on twitter at mjgormans. Also, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans . I would appreciate it if you pass this special post on to others through email , your blog, school newsletter, or a retweet!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Next Step in Global Collaboration From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 20, 2020

How have you led in curating and integrating OER? It is important to curate evidence of the ways you leveraged your social media presence to communicate and build community. This is the perfect time to document the value of your curations. Can you link to or append your Hyperdocs, collections, dashboards, playlists, galleries?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. Subscribe to their blog. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) They’re amazing.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! credit: The Keyword Blog. Chromebooks are so much more than word processors and search engines; these devices can transform your classroom!

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Via Education Week (from last Friday – as I work on the week’s round-up of news, I try to avoid looking at social media, but I think there was another school shooting this morning): “10 Dead, Most of Them Students, and 10 Wounded in Texas High School Shooting.” ” Finally.

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. ” From the Scratch Team’s Medium blog : “ 3 Things To Know About Scratch 3.0.” and James L.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” ” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. ” From the EdTech Researcher blog : “ Project Based Learning as Mindset.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Marijana Smol?ec ec Surfing safe on the net - Eva Buyuksimkesyan 5:00pm Project Based Learning - giving it a go in the English Classroom - Jenny Luca Six Degrees of Separation: Using Our Connections to Improve Global Learning - Jen Marten Student-generated apps, animations, & infographics – can they lead to higher levels of understanding? .

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? " Tagged on: March 6, 2017 Three misunderstandings about open resources | The Hechinger Report → Nine superintendents jointly write an article to discuss OER approaches and materials that work.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

He requested a meeting with me after reading my blog reportage of his speech. OLPC is premised on the basis of one child interacting with one free laptop, in many ways a counter to social forms of learning witnessed in communal contexts such as Mitra's Hole in the Wall project. Conrad Wolfram.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. Because “open.”). I Believe Her Accuser.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Just a reminder that Twitter does not care about your school’s social media initiative. . “​Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans,” Edsurge pronounces.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” “Mitch Daniels Wants to Sell the Soul of Public Education: Purdue Faculty Must Stop Him,” the Academe blog argues. Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. ” ( No disclosure about shared investors.). .”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Via the Google blog : “What’s happening next for G Suite Enterprise for Education.” Will Merge Government Data, Social Media Posts.” ” More via the AP.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their social media presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. ” From the Mozilla blog : “ 10 Fascinating Things We Learned When We Asked The World ‘ How Connected Are You?

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

“ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. Gotta love corporate blog entries with headlines like “Continuing on our journey.” ” Via the Google blog : “ Teaching coding , changing lives: Google.org supports MolenGeek.” Labor and Management.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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