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

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Additionally, they can use a variety of digital tools to engage students in active learning. This includes online courses, lesson plans, and assessment tools. They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. One great example of this is the website Coursera.

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MOOCs for Professional Development - #TCEA15

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Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. It was free, but offered a certificate of completion. Why are we encouraging the use of MOOCs?

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

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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

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” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). New online tool has answers.”

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Punk learning

Learning with 'e's

For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE). Learning by watching YouTube or participation in social media discussions are certainly methods that are gaining traction.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr. Maria Droujkova Affinity Spaces as Learning Tools - Lindsey Tropf, M.Ed.

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms. E.S.C.A.P.E.