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Best Apps for College Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Whether you’re an undergrad juggling multiple courses or a grad student deep in research, these apps are designed to streamline your educational experience. It’s a valuable tool for refining essays, emails, and even social media posts. Hemingway Editor : Focuses on making your writing clear and bold.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

Or maybe you think, ‘Of course [Amanda] has a PLN. Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. Colleges have now started offering online programs as supplements and alternative to elective courses.

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The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn #iste2015

There is no box

We also used study groups to self organize around a specific course, topic or test. Enter Twitter and the rise of social media. These groups (or Personal Learning Networks) allow for just in time information requests, asynchronous collaboration and archived knowledge bases. Have you checked out an #caedchat lately?

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

Students also need support and guidance about online behavior, including what can or should not be shared via social media. Dr. Smith recommends using the community and its knowledge base to obtain information, anticipate issues, and develop solutions. to pay for college credit-bearing courses.

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Learning to learn: A skill set for the 21st century student

Neo LMS

In today’s knowledge-based economy, employees are challenged by new situations at work every day, so they need to constantly learn and improve their skills in order to be successful. Of course, schools have to share the burden of teaching empathy to students with families, friends, society as a whole.

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Teaching: Have you found your life’s work?

Fractus Learning

An important element of what can be described as ‘your life’s work’ is that it shouldn’t feel like work, of course, you should still have the ability to live a full, happy and enjoyable life. However, work and play are often intertwined.