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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. Like that's an example of the kind of stuff you can do with knowing where things are. This is my replacement for Wiki spaces. I've been using it for a long time.

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

Mathematics journals, for example, I was just told by a prominent mathematician the other day. Yeah, Wikipedia, for example is toying with the idea of doing a chat wiki that basically feeds only off of Wikipedia, where at least the information has gone through a vetted process and is not just bilge.

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Summer Learning Series-It's All About The Hashtag

The Web20Classroom

From The Twitter Fan Wiki : Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. For example, lets say you are watching the Super Bowl. Many TV shows, events, companies, and more are creating hashtags to monitor conversations and just generally engage with other followers.

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It's All About The Hashtag

The Web20Classroom

From The Twitter Fan Wiki : Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. For example, lets say you are watching the Super Bowl. Many TV shows, events, companies, and more are creating hashtags to monitor conversations and just generally engage with other followers.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

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Many members use them as physical examples they can show faculty when they’re introducing them to open textbooks.” I found the whole process was a little more like a production line and not an authorship,” says Janssen, who has also worked on textbook materials for several commercial publishing companies. That would happen if W.W.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. We’d also check out the historical photos of Texas, Mexico, and Teddy Roosevelt from Southern Methodist University and the World War II advertisements and posters from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. Siemens also serves on the advisory board of learning analytics company Civitas Learning and is a mentor to startups in Intel’s Education Accelerator. Our technology is our ideology,” Siemens says.