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

EdTech4Beginners

Online teaching is trending right now, but only a small part of courses is of real value. 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. Promotion and sale.

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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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Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed

The Hechinger Report

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. One of the great motivating factors in this trend is leaders at the federal and state level making school connectivity a priority. Absolutely.

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Navigating Social Media as a Parent

Tech Helpful

E-parenting is not an easy task. Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com. Model the good and trend the positive! I found the ranking of green, yellow, and red apps very helpful.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. I am sensing a trend here… preschool management companies. The Business of Job Training.

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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. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”