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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

7 – ePortfolios Electronic portfolios are becoming a viable alternative to showcase a student’s work. ePortfolios are an excellent method for assessment of online learning during this time, and it’s an exciting way for kids to succeed in the virtual environment. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored blog post.”

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Who’s Playing Matchmaker Between Students and Employers?

Edsurge

The role of higher education, they argue, is to prepare students for their fifth job—not their first. But this argument is losing steam as employers, parents and policymakers increasingly question the value of the degree, and students are faced with a panoply of nontraditional educational alternatives on the path to employment.

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. Anya contrasted this data-gathering by authorities for monitoring purposes with the idea that education is about learners going through the process of self-authoring.

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Unleash The Superhero In You - NYSCATE 2016

ASIDE

Source: NYSCATE The theme for the 2016 annual conference of the New York State Association For Computers And Technologies In Education ( NYSCATE ) was "Unleash The Superhero In You." As Chromebooks catch up to (or surpass) iOS devices, the Google Apps For Education ( GAFE ) suite of tools is clearly permeating state-wide districts.

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5 Fun Ways to Start Setting Goals with your Students Today

EdTechTeam

Doran coined this rule in 1981 in a management research paper of the Washington Power Company and it is by far one of the most popular propositions of the psychology of goals.” Katie Christie is a Google Certified Educator, Innovator, Trainer, and past LearnZillion DreamTeam member. In other words, this format increases success.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. This harms the traditional nature of education which allows a space for being somewhat withdrawn from society.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. This harms the traditional nature of education which allows a space for being somewhat withdrawn from society.

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