Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

In #TeachDoNow, participants will engage in weekly discussions designed to promote deep discussions among formal and informal educators. The topics to be covered include: civic discourse, mobile technology in the classroom, student safety and digital citizenship, visual communication, 21st century communication and connected learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“Or video games,” one student suggested. Fast forward a few weeks; Minecraft kept finding its way into my classroom. Oral presentations became screen-casted videos of student-created builds. This resulted in several of my students engaging in lengthy and demanding composition tasks. Language Learning and Minecraft.

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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. Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When we focus our attention on real-time, up-to-the-second reporting on the portal, we elevate the false idols of scores and grades and devalue what really has an impact on learning: positive student-teacher relationships , relevance and student engagement. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. My fellow students and I watched avidly - I can't recall what the topic was, but I do remember the thrill of the experience - it was fresh and new to be able to watch television in a formal education setting. Today, video use in the classroom is more commonplace.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And even in a classroom setting, such practices are not helping creativity, according to research. He might just change the way you think about things like growth mindset, comprehensive testing, and encouraging students to make mistakes. There's actually something valuable to being in a classroom with other people.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Remember Yahoo buying Blue Mountain, the e-greeting card website, for a billion dollars?

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Remember Yahoo buying Blue Mountain, the e-greeting card website, for a billion dollars?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A He believes the student performance results will convince even skeptical educational institutions to adopt the model.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The emerging model in business today is BYO3 - Bring Your Own Laptop/Tablet/Phone We are coming to a price point where schools can provide small tablets and allow students to bring their own devices for learning as well. We are still on the grid model - classrooms with desks in rows. Even when we put technology into the classroom.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Technology and the classroom – major trends and challenges. With an increased presence of BYOD and 1:1 programs in classrooms, schools today are faced with the challenge of transforming traditional learning spaces to seamlessly connect pedagogy, technology, and space. Web-based classroom solutions also offer apps in most cases.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

An increasing number of educators are finding that collaborative, hands-on learning requires a different type of space than most traditional classrooms offer, and that the learning environment greatly impacts both pedagogy and student engagement. Teachers are becoming more comfortable with this idea of “blending learning.”.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. Ana Donaldson, 2011, Engaging the Online Learner. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Most of them offer some variation of the thesis that improving how “engaged” students are in their coursework and community will boost academic outcomes which will then increase retention. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Yes, this is a big problem. Facebook is.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” ” From the Lenovo website : “Lenovo™ Introduces Lenovo Virtual Reality Classroom.” McCarthyism is back,” writes David Palumbo-Liu.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Kevin Carey argues in Washington Monthly “Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers ”: Students who log on to the LMS, download materials, click on lectures, and contribute to discussions are much less likely to drop out than students who don’t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. “Student engagement platform” ClearScholar has raised $1.25 ” More legal maneuvering in the for-profit higher ed section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school company that has been battling Ohio for quite some time now. “ Silicon Valley Takes Over Classrooms : Yes and No (Part 1)” by Stanford University’s Larry Cuban.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

.” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. ” “What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms ?” More promoting the wonders of AI in this Edsurge story : “ A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement.” ” asks Edsurge.

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