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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

Here are two examples: Facebook.com/NewMilfordHS. Have a VLE or LMS where students and parents can check grades, homework, see student work, be notified of important notices, and find important information. Find examples here. Engaging Parents with Technology from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Twitter.com/NewMilfordHS.

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Offline Activities with Mobile Devices

Teacher Reboot Camp

For example, if you teach math, you can tell them to bring in an image that represents various geometric shapes. When they are connected to the Internet they can add to a Padlet or the class virtual learning environment (VLE). Check out an example here. You can give students topics.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with 'e's

Let me give you an example: Many schools, colleges and universities have by now implemented a managed learning environment (MLE) sometimes referred to as a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). mlearn14 digital strategy education learning LMS MLE pedagogy schools teaching Technology universiy VLE'

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. And there are plenty of other examples I could give you too, unfortunately, of how surveillance technologies permeate schools. Teachers might be less adept or even able to do the same when the classroom setting is digital.).

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines. The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). Unported License.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. Casey thought that might be the case, as a partial response.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. I guess I could represent these three kinds of space in a simple Venn diagram below, which would then indicate that there is a lot of crossover, fuzziness, and boundary incursion between the three.

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