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What Did SXSWedu Have to Say About Adult Learning?

Digital Promise

What did this year’s SXSWedu conference have to say about adult learning? He challenged attendees not to “tech away” the problems of disenfranchised students, but instead to find ways to work in communities and use their strengths and uniquenesses to find effective ways to help students learn. Turns out, more than you might think.

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LinkedIn’s New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals

Edsurge

LinkedIn loves to learn. announced an online learning portal with thousands of courses aimed at helping individuals pivot or pick up new skills for their careers. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. Today the social media site for professionals.

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

All agree, however, that media literacy is an important component of learning -- whether as its own focus or a cross-curricular literacy woven deeply into every classroom. LinkedIn Learning : Formerly Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning is a subscription-based site for courses in media production and beyond.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

Edsurge

Like most things, I believe it can be learned and honed. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. It is a skill because it can be learned. How can creativity be taught or learned? It combines elements of both.

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Lynda.com’s free offerings

NeverEndingSearch

I’ll admit it wasn’t on my K12 radar, but at the university one of the most popular resources for teaching and learning and catching up is Lynda.com. Lynda.com Youtube channel features 10 percent of the online learning company’s course content–heavy on software and technology, design, and business skills.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning (my LMS). So many of these tools are new to me.

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Microsoft Takes a Bite Out of BrightBytes, Acquiring Its DataSense Platform and Team

Edsurge

Among the tools that DataSense can pull data from are learning management systems, student information systems, web applications and individualized education plans for learners with special needs. Of the “Big Five” technology giants, Microsoft has become the most acqui-hungry as of late in the learning and training space.