MindShift

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“Wikipedia has been dealing with fake news since it started 16 years ago,” notes LiAnna Davis, deputy director of the Wiki Education Foundation. Today, educators are among those more concerned than ever with standards of truth and evidence and with the lightning-fast spread of misinformation online.

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Wiki Survey Report Libraries 57

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” What does learning look like in the library? What are the real impacts of our libraries?

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Today, OpenStax—part tech startup, part publishing house, part cognitive science research lab—has a library of three dozen titles. You could maybe change the world, or at least the world of education.”

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EdTechTeam

MAY 22, 2017

It is certainly not a bad thing that the number of education conferences continues to grow. The question for any education system, then, is this: How do we make having a growth mindset the norm amongst educators? Remember, the New Zealand system is fantastic, but Kiwi teachers are still coming to terms with it.

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Wiki Meeting Training System 41

The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 23, 2011

The Educon conversation model is a perfect storm of opportunity to be in the mix and talk about the challenges & issues in education today. Oh and If you''re a DC Metro educator let me invite you to join our MSET Ning! The goal - creatively and collaboratively build a Google slidedeck, & wiki pages of product ideas.

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Wiki Digital Divide Conference Twitter 38

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I''m going to talk about the "Learning Revolution:" why I think this is such an important time historically for learning, tying that back to what I''ve learned in the last seven years of building online communities for education, and then sharing my newest project: LearningRevolution.com. It should even be a little edgy and challenging.

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PLE ePortfolio Digital Badges Mobility 38

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, author’s name, public domain reference, or even as little as an email from the creator giving you permission.

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Digital Citizenship Wiki Twitter Facebook 207

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, author’s name, public domain reference, or even as little as an email from the creator giving you permission. Wiki Images.

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Digital Citizenship Wiki Twitter Video 150

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As shown below, well-designed serious games can teach, educate, and inspire. Therefore, we educators need to educate ourselves on game based learning. Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. By Jennifer Roland.

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Game-Based Learning Gamification Learning Twitter 120

The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 26, 2010

They were doing a month long series called “ Shhhh… Libraries at Work !” (of and chose my school, Murray Hill Middle School to represent school libraries. (I In Part 1 (#6 on the iTunes list) you can listen to the Bob Edwards XM Show Podcast featuring my MHMS kids, MHTV crew, & our school library! of course I HATE the Shhh!

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Libraries Wiki Assessment Strategy 39

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 8, 2012

It''s like the Who''s Who in the flippin Library world! I''m looking at you Matthew Winner - The Busy Librarian , Librarian Tiff - Mighty Little Librarian , and Jennifer LaGarde -author of The Adventures of Library Girl ! Only by finding & celebrating other amazing educators can we bring up our whole profession.

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