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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

As one anecdote to consider, Kamenetz mentioned a new product, which provides surveillance software for K-12. The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. It needs a central authority such as LinkedIn, for example.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

I also asked each person to specify their role concerning technology, and there were a lot of different roles: someone running a distance learning program, another in charge of a problem-based learning initiative, a prof looking for good examples of technology in liberal education, a provost to whom several tech departments reported, and more.

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Chrome Can: Screencasting!

Dr. Shannon Doak

Screencasting software allows students to create vlogs, how-to type videos, annotated slide presentations and explain their understanding. Here is an example of how Screencastify was used in the Spanish Class at my current place of employment. If you want to do more with this software, they offer a paid version.

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2013 Global Education Conference Kicks Off Today - List of Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

From the 2012 GlobalEdCon attendees: "This conference is a great example on what global means. Speakers, presenters and public from all over the world talking, showing and listening about education. The world is indeed flat." Haiken Fostering Global Citizenship in Our Schoolhouses - Jennifer D.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

And so for those who have never seen that, this was a portable camera that had a, I don’t remember how much video it could record, but it had a USB connector built in and some software that made it very easy to get that video online. So okay, I learned about counting collections from my supervisor, or sorry, my faculty member.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

And so for those who have never seen that, this was a portable camera that had a, I don’t remember how much video it could record, but it had a USB connector built in and some software that made it very easy to get that video online. So okay, I learned about counting collections from my supervisor, or sorry, my faculty member.

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

These include slide presentations, graphic organizers, infographics, ebooks, video presentations, websites, whiteboard app creations, graphic novels, blog posts, ePortfolios, podcasts, coded applications, digital art, video games, and VR world creations. These new forms of creativity can be easily shared with a wider more authentic audience.

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