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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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The engaging video summaries of textbook material provide access to more than a thousand full-length college courses. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length. Complete the course by going through all of the lessons (and videos) and taking all required exams. Things to know.

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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

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Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? This 18-hour course provides participants with first-hand experience leveraging technology as a strategic tool when teaching academic topics. Digital portfolios—via wikis. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups.

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

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Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. Online Course delivery system. Digital books are aligned with state standards and Common Core. These should be in place before unpacking a blended learning program. This is a two-step process.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

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Charles Young & Bhavna Narula Handling Ethical Issues for Developing Digital Citizenship - Dr. Revathi Viswanathan Improved Reporting Triples Educators’ Accuracy When Analyzing Data - Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.