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A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Create Your First Online Course

EdTech4Beginners

The correct definition of the concept is necessary to set the right learning tools: today an e-course is not only a slideshow in PowerPoint but also drag-and-drop simulators, interactive tasks, games, tests, and much more. Most educational platforms use quizzes, conduct surveys, or host themed games. Use a planner if you need it.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage. And surveys back that up.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. One argument goes that filtering prevents exploration and blocks students from using tools like Facebook for academic causes. Federal law doesn’t specifically require schools to block Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. When we did the state survey it was pretty shocking to see the correlation between the number of universities that prepare school librarians, and the number of actual school librarians employed in schools in that state. . .” 2021, July).

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

By the time the South Burlington High School senior was arrested, federal investigators had counted eight threats involving eight email accounts, a virtual private network and three Facebook accounts. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | It offers a more experiential learning experience. If not, why not?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

By the time the South Burlington High School senior was arrested, federal investigators had counted eight threats involving eight email accounts, a virtual private network and three Facebook accounts. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | It offers a more experiential learning experience. If not, why not?

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