The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently in the higher education stories most popular with EdSurge readers last year. What Does That Mean For Higher Education? Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. By Jeffrey R. By Jeffrey R.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

As always, education is changing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Video-assisted Learning.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The future of education is increased inter-connectivity. Open Ended Education. New Learning Platforms.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. Washington University in St. government as well.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online PD Course Findings.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

Today, the Goal-Minded Teacher ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course Twitter chat took place about the topics, Classroom Management and Parent Engagement. Apps and Websites for Improving Parent-Teacher Communication from Common Sense Education. Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement? Twitter Chat Archive.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Education, at least in terms of the learning process (as opposed to content), should be more student-centered and efficient.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But you might not realize how many educational podcasts are out there. By educational, we mean shows that focus on some super-focused topic, like a specific period of history or an academic discipline. You’re not getting really wealthy or even famous through educational audio. It's well-known that podcasting is huge these days.

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The PL2C Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed). When combined with the self-directed, anytime, anywhere learning facilitated in the MOOC-Ed, the experience proved to be powerful. Participants began to use Voxer in other contexts as well.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

The following is an edited excerpt from Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education , forthcoming from Routledge. Nearly all of higher education moved online at the beginning of the pandemic. For longtime proponents of online education like myself, you might think it would be an accomplishment.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

When professor Lorena Barba talks to other educators about flipping their classrooms, the approach she hears is often similar. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We It also found that students in traditional lecture courses were 1.5

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. It is a powerful way to educate and train yourself or others.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. I hope this will inspire you to think of other new ways to use Google Classroom. SAT/ACT Study Groups.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

I taught a little even as an undergrad, substituting when professors were away or guest teaching about indigenous Japanese music when we studied ethnomusicology. There’s a debate going on in education that seems to be growing almost by the week. It’s a partisan divide over the role of data in education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education. The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

What can be done to accommodate all types of students with outcome-based education and Bloom’s taxonomy? Courtesy Firstly, we would like to thank all the educators who have contributed to building the Linways platform. One way to assess students effectively is by using outcome-based education.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Silence From the Secretary , Despite Major Rules Changes.” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. .” ” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

The education industry’s current fascination with income share agreements—in which students typically pay a percent of their future income in lieu of upfront tuition—is no better exemplified than in the current crop of graduates from Y Combinator. We are seeing these spread around the world.” Here’s a look at the latest edtech crop.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. The infusion of innovative learning systems and computerization into educational settings promises to create significant change in the near future. These changes will impact both the way students learn and the appearance of traditional classroom settings.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Higher Education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

What’s life like after quitting a tenured job as a professor to become a freelance educator, making video courses and podcasts for a living? So we also asked deLaplante what he thinks about the broader landscape of online education that he’s part of. But there has to be demand from educators and teachers who want to make this shift.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

What will be the future of school classrooms? It is unlikely that we will see the demise of the classroom in the next decade. Those who study the future of education often suggest that the demise of traditional classrooms is not only inevitable, but imminent. Is he right? Unported License.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Fast forward a few weeks; Minecraft kept finding its way into my classroom. Whether a recreation of a famous landmark, an original build in response to a classroom topic, or the setting for a narrative tale, nothing is more powerful than a project generated by the students’ own voices. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

This is going to come as a shock I know…but pre-service education programs are not preparing teachers for a technology rich classroom teaching experience. Or to put that another way the classrooms of today. Math teachers should know about things like PhotoMath and how you could leverage this in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Educational media is at an inflection point. Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. These efforts are not cheap.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Child is disengaged.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

It mentions that professors were not normal students in their own college experience, and so they often have trouble putting themselves in the positions of the students sitting it their classrooms. In a classroom, the best you can do is teach to the middle. But what’s wrong with having tech in the classroom? College graduates.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

Do you want fries with that education? One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. He calls this the“McDonaldization paradox”—that measures installed to improve education instead become inhibitors to creativity in classrooms.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

In education, the common objective is usually to learn specific content, skills or competencies within defined areas. There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. It simply amplifies it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

This knowledge will help set the curricular approach throughout the program and prepare VHS Learning students to perform well on the exam and continue their Chinese language studies. The courses feature interactive and robust online classroom communities — a critical instructional element during these times of social distancing.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2017

Known as retrofuturism , the study of how people in the past represented their imagined futures is quite fascinating. It has featured regularly in keynote speeches, articles and texts about the future of education. The image captures his thought of what a school classroom might look like at the turn of the millennium.

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