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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

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via the Coursera/Acadeum college and university partner network The industry credentials available can help qualify high school students for careers in fields like data analytics, UX design, software development, and cybersecurity, while also allowing them to earn eligible credit and cost savings toward a college degree.

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

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It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly. Giving students gold stars or digital badges. This is possibly a new sort of area to define the word “teach.” Using multiple systems and apps.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content. Something is usually lost in translation when content publishers and software developers try to put state standards into their own databases.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

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Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. And “free” doesn’t last. That’s gonna be a “no” for me, dawg.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. CEET Meet: Disrupting Assessment with Digital Badges. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. Classroom 2.0

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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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.