Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

His latest book, “ Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes ,” expands on his arguments and offers practical advice for instructors who want to rethink how they design their classes. EdSurge: Your book offers a broad critique of college instructors. But what’s wrong with having tech in the classroom?

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

We need to start the changes from our own classrooms. The students have access to the internet, and all the information available. Let’s our classrooms be the labs whereby we explore and try to inculcate that spirit of inquisitiveness in each student.”. MOOCs, rubrics, open-ended questions, open-book examinations, etc.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. But in your latest book, “Why Can't They Write,” you say that students are surprisingly confident about their writing abilities, even though you see them as poor. A lot of that is wrapped up in my other book, “The Writers Practice.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. " Cop s**t supposedly brings order to the classroom by demanding compliance. Proctorio was founded at Arizona State.). Unfathomable.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Here is a snippet from “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” that sets the stage for the book: Speaking of success, if you are looking for answers to create higher test scores, you might want to stop reading this book. Could you see the following video (linked below) created within the context of the classroom?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He’s co-authored popular books, including Brain Briefs Answers to the Most and Least Pressing Questions About Your Mind. And even in a classroom setting, such practices are not helping creativity, according to research. Your brain wants to keep using information when you're forced to keep pulling it out over and over again.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is appealing a lower court’s ruling that it must repay $60 million to the state of Ohio as it cannot document students “attended” its online charter school. State and Local) Education Politics.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here is something I wrote in “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” that is an easy way to support our teachers in their work: I often took my laptop and would sit in a classroom for anywhere from three to six hours. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms. May 27, 2016 Accepting the Default?

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. As with so many new technologies forced into the classroom, the experiment deepened many teachers' "feelings of insecurity and fear that radio, this new technology, might one of these days take away their jobs."

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. Narrate Videos: We know that narratives are “sticky” ways of getting people to remember information. This prompted a thoughtful explanation that went beyond what she had covered in her book.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

In his 2014 book Location is (Still) Everything, Wharton professor David Bell argued that the future of online business is shaped by the physical world—and this is especially relevant when it comes to “experiential” products such as education. That approach goes against broader trends in trends in the consumer landscape.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

We advocate for deep learning in the classrooms of our students, but then cheer at a conference when we get a ready-made plan for our next day with students. ” As one of the characteristics of “ The Innovator’s Mindset “, being observant in a world that has no information shortage, is crucial.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. The classroom remains the core of our enterprise.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

I would love your feedback and any examples of classrooms doing this already.). That being said, no matter how well funded a school is, and how well those resources are managed, there are still things that we could use for our classrooms. (This is trying to look at something that is an obstacle, and creating an opportunity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

More information or register here! Our goal is to have you walk away with practical information and inspiration for furthering game-based learning in class and beyond. Look for more information in the coming weeks. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Classroom 2.0

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I have explored and used the flipped classroom technique for the past five years, but I came to flipping through the just-in-time techniques first expressed so well by IUPU physics professor Gregor Novak and his colleagues in their 1999 book Just-in-Time Teaching. technology. I want to explore for a moment this link to complexity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Free lesson plans for helping teachers integrate technology into their digital classrooms. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. Tech ed resources – online classes .

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment. Here’s a sneak peek at our calendars for next week, including all the sessions and happenings that you (and we) don’t want to miss. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. But will VR and AR live up to its hype? EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Or in a “flipped classroom” setting where the “lecture” is designed to be consumed at the student’s own pace (using viewing strategies , for example). The idea is to see a lot of awesome possibilities in one place, not write a book. Self-guided MOOC. Traditional MOOC. This is a long list.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We are still on the grid model - classrooms with desks in rows. Even when we put technology into the classroom. We are putting new technologies into old classroom models. Schools need informal spaces for learning. Students may have tons of devices, but don''t know how to use them deeply beyond texting and recording.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Technology is an excellent way to make students of all generations more engaged in classroom activities and more motivated when they attend classes or do their homework. For some time now, the internet has also become a significant source of information for students and teachers all over the world. Write a book.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

Education always has been more than information dissemination or publishing, but now we have the tools, at low costs and globally available to make participatory learning possible. Steve: You wrote a book recently with Olaf Zawacki-Richter - what are the main themes of this volume? What are your views on MOOCs?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. MOOCs were going to change everything. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Do you co-learn with a classroom across the globe? For more information visit [link]. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Join Dr. Mishra and Dr. Koehler for our first webinar presented by the Digital Classroom community and discover how TPACK can help you with technology integration!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

Join us as we talk about features in the Blackboard Collaborate online classroom. No homework, no assignments, no cost—just an hour online, once a month to listen, share and discuss technology tools for your classroom, websites and more. Are you a veteran Elluminate user and are curious about v11? Do I need one for my current courses?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Then our fourth annual (and free) Future of Libraries conference, Library 2.014, starts on Wednesday, October 8th, at 10:00am US-Eastern Time with the opening keynote by conference co-chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the School of Information at San José State University. & Stacy Lein 2:00pm Aren''t all kids the same?

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Sunday, April 26th at 7pm TechEducator Podcast: 10 Ways to be a Rock Star Teacher in your Classroom , Are you interested in creating dynamic hands on lesson plans that leave your students wanting to come back to class the next day? More information here. Register for free at [link]. Register for free today at [link].

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. Blended learning enables me to effectively bring technology into the classroom. Read on below to find out what they had to say. What is blended learning?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Because of the amount of information that is published about ed-tech – the amount of information, its irrelevance, its incoherence, its lack of context – it can be quite challenging to keep up with what is really happening in ed-tech. .” It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. In 2017, for example, Edsurge informed its readers that “MissionU Says It Can Replace Traditional College With a One-Year Program.” ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I’ve written two books on the monsters of education technology; I’m publishing a third in the series at the end of the year. My background in Folklore certainly informs my interests in storytelling: what are the stories we tell to cajole, frame, admonish, ordain, encourage, frighten, teach? Reviled, utterly reviled.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 11, 2016

For much of history, the educational paradigm has dictated that the student should adapt to the classroom. Some are classroom- and school-based approaches; others lie beyond the school gates. Examples include activities that require students to: Incorporate more information (or more abstract information).

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