21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this second post you will discover how careful examination of the nouns in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. They include; One-Half Day PBL Splash, Full Day PBL Starter; and a One-Half Day Technology Workshop dedicated to amplifying standards and process using Technology.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. I was proud to be there to share along with some serious library power: AASL President Leslie Preddy, Mark Ray (WA) Washington, Jennifer Boudrye (D.C.) Some OER background: Launched in October, GoOpen is a U.S. What are OER?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Many professors are still skeptical about utilizing smart phones in the classroom, but I believe we could get more professors on-board if entrepreneurs better understood the challenges and resistance faculty face to use mobile technologies. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I took some time to look over my past posts and decided I needed to provide Social Studies Teachers with some great resources for their classroom. Rather than get into any one specific Social Studies area, I thought best to find some resources that might work in just about any Social Studies Classroom. I have done 100?s

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 21, 2016

You’ll absolutely want to introduce CommonLit to your classroom teachers and you’ll absolutely use it yourself to make curricular discoveries and to help teachers make connections. Two essential questions around the themes are intended to engage students in the type of conversations they might experience in college classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We're excited to announce our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We hope you'll consider joining our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). (We Please also join the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 13, 2016

The second of our three free Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: " Library as Classroom ," is this Wednesday, June 15th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

While opportunities to advance technology-enabled or -enhanced school reform and improvement efforts appear throughout ESSA (and are in no way precluded as a strategy anywhere in the bill), it is Title IV that presents the most direct opportunity for state leadership. These also speak to implicit expectations for technology availability.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 28, 2017

Following a year of retooling, the Amazon Inspire digital library reopened in public Beta this week. Offering a familiar, filtered Amazon search/shopping interface, Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Symbaloo on OER Resources. Sample entry. Sample collection.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Classroom 2.0 ? Educational Technology ? Libraries and Librarians ? Open Source and OER ? Alternative Education ? Balancing Home and School ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Elementary Years ? Engagement ? Hope and Healing

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Our own Kristina Holzweiss shared the Wakelet on Wakelet she co-presented, as well as her blog post on library uses of the platform. I was honored to join several esteemed colleagues to present on the panel: Leading the Charge: Leveraging Librarian Leadership to Support the OER Journey. Technological Darwinism. Student voice.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI). I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions. TCI created the History Alive! It’s dispiriting.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. National Science Foundation – Check out this diverse collection of lessons and web resources for classroom teachers. Check out my Booking Page.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

You will also find posts filled with resources including Science , Technology , and Engineering in STEM. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. Check it out if you have not had a chance!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this fifth post you will discover how careful examination of the verbs in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For some folks in higher ed, the very idea of using open educational resources (OER) sparks dread. The right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive. EdSurge: Why are you such a proponent of OER in higher ed? Here’s how I look at it.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Companies are investing in immersive technologies. What are immersive technologies? enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), The first of my shares was on AR/VR/MR with a sprinkling of AI.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2016

They all help classroom teachers and education leaders leverage education technology in the best ways possible. Even with tight budgets, it’s possible to repurpose your libraries or media centers into 21st century makerspaces. OER meets iPads in this district. Top BYOD tools for the Common Core classroom.

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Common Core OER Gamification BYOD 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

Library 2.015 Spring Summit Recap On April 30th we held the first ever Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , a half-day conversation about technology issues and trends in the future of library and information services. Details to join the webinar at [link]. Register here.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

It’s hard to make sense of the current climate for school libraries. In other areas, library programs are being cut because some tight budgets favor more pressing priorities. In other areas, library programs are being cut because some tight budgets favor more pressing priorities. April 29, 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

adaptive technology. I spoke with biology instructor Kathy Watkins and Associate Dean of STEM Bruce Johnson about how CPCC is hoping to transform a biology survey class using adaptive technology. Manuela Ekowo: What made CPCC begin using adaptive technology? One new category of tool schools are experimenting with is.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Sue Toms, Head of Libraries Stories from Hello Little World Skypers - Anne Mirtschin 8:00am Building a Global Culture of Accessibility with Mobile Devices - Dr. Luis Perez ED4ALL - Educate Every Child on the Planet: The World Top 20 Education Poll - Albert N.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud. For classroom teachers, the responsibility of monitoring and ensuring the reading progress of more than 20 students who may be in various face-to-face, hybrid or remote settings can be a painstaking and tedious process.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

After all, schools are preparing them for their future careers, which will include using some aspect of online technology. They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. CEN also has redundancies built in so that if one node goes down, schools won’t notice.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Teachers may not have learned about particular teaching or classroom management strategies when they were in college, may need to re-trained on a topic, or learn how to use new technologies and digital resources. He is the host of the New Teacher Help and TechTools for the Classroom communities on edWeb.net.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. Today, the tradeoffs that school leaders and teachers face about technology — whether free or for a fee — are more complex and troubling. It also often comes with a catch. Related: Psst!

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

Sadly, as Audrey Watters has frequently noted, it might be impossible to find a field of endeavor outside educational technology where more of the participants are so utterly ignorant of its history. (I Or (insert whatever comes next)… To my mind, the internet is an absolutely transformative technology (for better and for worse).

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” 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. Because technology imperialism. National) Education Politics.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

HyperDocs are perfect opportunities to grow teacher librarian/ classroom teacher partnerships. According to the HyperDocs site , HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.

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Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

and Mrs. Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para One of Mrs. Perkins’s learners uses assistive technology , a screen reader, to read and can also access the digital materials. Looking to get started with a similar OER initiative? It’s 6:30 a.m., It’s now 10 a.m.

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