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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

Edsurge

Sal Khan has been as busy as ever. Over the last year, he’s helped Khan Academy manage a three-fold user increase, has grown and developed an online program geared toward early learners, and launched a new peer-to-peer tutoring platform to keep students connected and learning during the pandemic.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

What sets this work apart from most is that it doesn’t just focus on the theoretical, but provides the framework around which educators can blend online learning with traditional teaching methods. More education books: Google Apps Meets Common Core. Common Core Literacy for ELA. It will prove them wrong.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. Open Course Library – A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that teachers can download and use for teaching and learning. Khan Academy – One cannot forget the Khan Academy. It is all possible with CK-12.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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Three tools for “in-text” video analysis and why it matters

NeverEndingSearch

For many of us, the go-to platform for learning and sharing is video. We learn from TED Talks, the Khan Academy, as well as the growing number of videos we ourselves create for flipped. Among the Common Core Standards addressing media understanding are: CC.11-12.R.I.7 blended and hybrid instruction.

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Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core. Open Course Library – A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that teachers can download and use for teaching and learning. Khan Academy – One cannot forget the Khan Academy. It is all possible with CK-12.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Common Core State Standards. Khan Academy. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Social Learning, Social Networks. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014. The Business of Ed-tech. Competencies and Certificates.