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Technology in Schools – Future Changes in the Classroom.

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They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flipped’ classrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. Efforts are currently being made to train teachers to handle technologies that aid the flipped classroom.

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Innovation In E-learning In The Last 10 Years

EdTech4Beginners

Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Stop Calling College Teachers ‘Professors.’ Try ‘Cognitive Coaches,’ Says Goucher President.

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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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How a Parody Twitter Account Helps Decode the Hulking Educause Conference (And What to Expect This Year)

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ANY PUNY HUMAN SMARTPHONE ONLY! Bringing Adaptive Technology in the Classroom to Larger Scale through Academic Collaboration with Thomas Cavanagh (University of Central Florida), Constance Johnson (Colorado Technical University) and Christi Ford (University of Maryland University College) Friday. NOT TRENDY ANYMORE! Young is a judge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” 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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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

It is definitely convenient, but does this lead to better learning in the classroom? There are a million ways that you can use google forms, but the ability to use “google forms” is not innovative’; it is what you do with it that creates the innovative practice in the classroom. Look at EdCamp.

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New learning environments: The challenge and the promise #EDENchat

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The last two decades alone have seen a rapid rise in popularity of the World Wide Web, smartphones, social media, social networks, augmented reality, wearable technologies and user generated content sites.