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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

Edsurge

If you’re looking to bring these experiences to your students, there are infographics , articles , and books loaded with ideas and tutorials. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. Not ready to dig through all OERs and curate on your own? It is good!

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please consider becoming part of this elite team by signing up at [link] and using the booking calendar to schedule volunteer time. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Huge thanks!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The seller: Book Dog Books. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” asks Edsurge.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. They haven’t.).

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