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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. There was an influx of districts assigning teachers or instructional coaches to compile OER options that reflected the needs of common core. About Rich Dixon.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Close CEO Using Facebook and Twitter as Online Classrooms: Connecting Educators and Learners Around the Globe - Pierre Moncal and Katrina Ingco - BEEd Special Education Undergraduate 8:00pm A Student-Led Virtual Technology Conference? A New Model for Collaboration!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. But it also occurred right as fears were growing about the social media monitoring of students — by schools and by corporations alike.

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