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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Through creating professional connections for instance by attending conferences, webinars, workshops, etc, you get to tap into the expertise and knowledge of your crowd allowing you to access insider insights that would be hard to access otherwise.

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Now Take Notes on Drive Videos with VideoNot.es – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

works with YouTube, Vimeo, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and EdX videos. But now, thanks to one of my EdTechTeacher Summer Workshop participants – Bill Melville ( @bmelvillehwrhs ) from Hamilton Wenham Regional High School – there is a solution. We lead Google, web tool, and Chromebook workshops throughout the year.

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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. Click here to see all of them.) They will get this.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

This talk was presented today at ETUG 's Fall Workshop in Vancouver, BC. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.”

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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. Via NPR : “ Sesame Workshop CEO Outlines Vision To Ensure Show’s Survival.” Revature recently received $20 million in funding from University Ventures and Eden Capital.

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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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