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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

EdTech4Beginners

They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. Online resources like TED Talks and Khan Academy provide an endless amount of educational videos that can be used in the classroom. One great example of this is the website Coursera.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts! Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter. November suggests you can follow someone on Twitter via text messaging instead of having to set up a Twitter account. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. ” Via the ACLU : “ Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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