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Best Apps for College Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Word Processing and Document Collaboration: Google Docs : Known for its simplicity and real-time collaboration features. It’s cloud-based, making it accessible from any device, and integrates seamlessly with other Google services. If you leave the app to check Facebook or play a game, the tree withers.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

You may never meet them in person, though you likely collaborate through Google Hangouts, Skypes, or pre-arranged TweetUps. You reach out through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, G+, forums, and discussion boards. Thanks to your PLN, you will have first-hand knowledge of these sites, with an appreciation for their pros, cons, and tricks.

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Hyperconnected

Learning with 'e's

million search enquiries on Google, nearly 2 million photos created on Snapchat , over 4 million hours of video watched on the video sharing channel YouTube (and 400 hours uploaded), nearly half a million tweets sent on Twitter, and more than 16 million text messages sent.

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The Future of MOOCs Must Be Decolonized

Edsurge

This excludes vast amounts of people, and the potential for a truly pluralistic global knowledge base vanishes to colonial and imperial languages and cultures. 37 million- Paid subscription model - Offers an iMBA - Partnered with Google, World Bank, CISCO, BCG, InteledX (U.S.)Massachusetts

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Facebook had its big developer conference this week, and honestly I couldn’t bear to pay attention. I did see this headline though: “Facebook’s Free Basics program ended quietly in Myanmar last year.” “ AI will soon beat pupils taught knowledge-based curriculum,” Schools Week claims.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS.

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