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

NeverEndingSearch

Each year Jane examines trends–which tools have moved up and which have move down the list. Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). There’s a CTREX Library Hub for librarians and a CTREX School Hub for teachers. Follow them @BalefireLabs.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? We can extend the learning day.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). Pearson agreed. Reiser & J. New York, NY: Pearson Education.

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Hi-Lo Texts: Reaching fringe readers with text bands

The Cornerstone for Teachers

They typically watch the same tv shows and movies, are interested in the same pop culture trends, are curious about the same current events in the news, and are obsessed with the same YouTubers or TikTok trends. I love my classroom library. That is a huge span of reading levels, but they are all emotionally 6th graders.

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Which Stories Do the Nations' Education Technology Reporters Want You To Follow?

Edsurge

From Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to take over the classroom, to random acts in both K-12 and higher education compromising the private information of millions of vulnerable students, 2017 has been no short of edtech news. Have you followed the trends as far as people trying to do STEM education, and how legislation going into that?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S. ” You know what would be helpful Google?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” The Google Memo. ” Via The Guardian’s Julie Carrie Wong : “Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech.” Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.”