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

The CoolCatTeacher

We all need to find a system that works for us and we need to choose tools that align with our individual preferences and workflows. In this show, I will cover digital Note taking notes on selecting your own system. This is my replacement for Wiki spaces. So pick your workflow, pick your system, and there's a lot of templates.

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How to navigate the new device-agnostic classroom

eSchool News

When considering these questions, it’s also critical to think about interoperability and how different digital systems can be fully integrated and work together, even if they are built by different companies. Ultimately, these systems help students take ownership of their own learning, inside the classroom and out.

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

Have a system where if a book doesn’t make X amount of money after two years, then it goes into the public domain? Right now there’s lots of talk about ChatGPT and other AI systems. So it may be that it totally shakes up the whole copyright system. But the vast bulk of it is simply no longer commercially valuable in any form.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

Feeling squeezed, for-profit publishers are searching for new revenue by selling colleges digital homework systems that charge students up to $100 for a semester’s worth of access. Why don’t I instead build a system or a platform where we can have hundreds of different possible textbooks to teach the concepts I’m teaching?”

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

Edsurge

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. He points to the learning management system as an example. This focus on the learner is a big mistake.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices. This is basically a camera system that you connect to your Xbox and play games without an controller. I still believe this is a great and easy tool for anyone to use.

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