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With Instagram and ePortfolios, This Teaching Fellow Uses Tech to Support Literacy ?

Edsurge

“Teachers are learners, too” was one of the key messages for this year’s cohort of HP Teaching Fellows—26 primary and secondary educators who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. In what other ways have you leveraged technology to teach literacy? The writing the students are doing is not just for me.

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Marketplace trend update: 5 new ed-tech developments

eSchool News

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Cricket Media and the Smithsonian have launched the 2016 Global Folklorist Challenge.

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This Year be an EduHero!

Teacher Reboot Camp

If you choose to go on the EduHero Journey this year feel free to download any of these badges I made to go on your blog, eportfolio, or website : (Call to Adventure) Mission: Your mission this year is to join a League of EduHeroes and go on your EduHero Journey. I shortened the EduHero journey into these stages. You are not just a teacher.

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

Bryan Alexander

Anya Kamenetz was our Future Trends Forum guest on March 15th , and she sparked one of our most energetic discussions to date, focused on testing. One example: eportfolios dropped in one case because doing them decently was seen as too onerous. We can shift from snapshots of learning to a graph, focusing on trends over time.

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Last week we had Gardner Campbell on the Future Trends Forum , and the discussion hurtled along. Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. What’s going on here?

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Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

Last week we had Gardner Campbell on the Future Trends Forum , and the discussion hurtled along. Gardner, participants, and I explored pedagogy, the power of the hyperlink, data, instructors, institutions, eportfolios, language, students, assessment, a great card deck, our personal histories, and a lot more. What’s going on here?

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

Bryan Alexander

I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” I had two measly slides for ePortfolios, the main thrust of which was “go to AAEEBL !”,