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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. A learning theory “in which networked learners not only construct and assimilate their own knowledge from their own learning opportunities, but deliberately contribute their own learning to a community resource base.”(

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” ” “The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3