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Why I Had to Develop a Unique Learner Profile to Meet the Needs of My Students

Edsurge

I’ve learned that I need to know my students academically and personally so I can modify instruction to be as effective, engaging and rigorous as possible, so every year I craft personal learner profiles for my students that go beyond their IEP goals and basic personality surveys. Characters could level-up to earn special in-class privileges.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

A 2014 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) survey found that 81 percent of surveyed schools either had a BYOD policy or planned to implement one. Adaptive Learning: Adaptive learning refers to software that adjusts to students’ learning needs as they use the product.

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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Get students to use digital tools to create interactive mindmaps , multimedia presentations, digital storiesl , comics , games , blogs, scavenger hunts, videos, podcasts, digital fliers, posters , infographics, and more! Discover which tools your students already have access to or know how to use by surveying them.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky,” he said, apparently referring to the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. (He

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