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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content. K-12 learners.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. In business, coworkers are constantly telling each other what folder to look in for what document and guiding the discourse of business. Giving students gold stars or digital badges.

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15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

Use a Google Doc as a Syllabus (Secondary). Many teachers use Google Docs to create a syllabus so that it is a living document that can be updated throughout the year. You could even gamify this idea and give digital badges for accomplishing a task or challenge. Attach a Template Document for Each Assignment.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest Edu conference, an offshoot of the popular South by Southwest music festival. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials.

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Join Us in Chicago for the Fourth Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 15, 2019

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In that role, Abdel-Kader was responsible for encouraging and promoting the study of foreign languages and the study other countries’ cultures at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in the United States. Department of Education. She is currently enrolled at Walden University in the doctoral program.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Indeed, the job prospects for those with just a high school diploma but no additional schooling are pretty dismal , even for positions that once did not demand any sort of post-secondary education. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. And Northeastern has teamed up with IBM to put digital badges on the blockchain.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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