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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. It is easily applied to a variety of educational environments. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. It will stand the test of time.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. It was a discussion about a digital literacy issue at the U.S. Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. Suddenly, information literacy became real — and urgent.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

Ask a Tech Teacher

This vibrant educator community hosts teacher-authors who wish to sell their original lessons and ideas to other teachers, district administrators, homeschoolers, and unschoolers. Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving.

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The Internet Can Be a Force for Good. Here’s How.

Edsurge

All of this amounts to what is essentially a new frontier in society, and it’s often called “digital citizenship.” Over the summer, EdSurge sat down with one of the foremost experts on this topic: Marialice Curran, founder and executive director of the Digital Citizenship Institute. What is digital citizenship?

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

Vivek Singh, education professional and contributor to Ask a Tech Teacher, has some interesting ideas on using your native LMS as a social learning platform. Education, thus, has its roots in the earliest social interactions. Seminars held online, are called webinars. Little has changed in today’s space-age.

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Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 3)

EdNews Daily

What follows next are the six remaining learning attributes of the digital generations. Learning Attribute #4 – Digital learners prefer to network and collaborate simultaneously with many others. – Using Socratic Seminars to create and answer thought-provoking questions. . – Providing positive calls home.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. Here’s the full recording, hosted at YouTube , and embedded here: I. RECLAIM HOSTING.

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