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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

Edsurge

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. You get an introduction to a topic, apply it, do a short video or course, then apply that. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Is Creativity a Skill?

Edsurge

From personal experience, the most creative moments rarely happen on a conference call, in a meeting, or with sharpies, sticky notes and a whiteboard. Of course, not all creative ideas are good ones.) Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. There is serendipity in the spontaneity. (Of

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. The teacher or librarian can easily customize and adjust playlists to meet each student’s strengths and needs and pace. Meet the Cs (AASL Concurrent session on curation and collaboration).

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Zoom Room (for online meetings and video recordings). for my meetings now. My favorite Evernote productivity course is The Secret Weapon tutorials. I highly recommend this book. Great tool!

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. “Everyone should learn to code,” as they like to tell us.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. .” “ What does Trump’s executive order on education do?

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize. ” “The right skills,” of course, are the skills that employers expect potential employees to possess, largely eschewing training themselves and instead offloading the risk and responsibility of training onto individuals.