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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens). How to update your “class website” in a manner that is appropriate, within school guidelines and gets your message across to your community. Where they might work and where they might not.

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How to Introduce a Young Scholar to Twitter

ProfHacker

Here are some guidelines if you’re a Twitter fan and want to do the same. Many first-time users are cautious with their privacy settings at first, protecting tweets, not allowing anyone to follow them without their approval – they think they are on facebook. Let her know to keep her privacy settings open.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Education Revolution Google+ Community Guidelines for Project Based Learning. Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?"

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. and Facebook Inc. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Trump Administration Will Rescind Obama-Era Guidelines on Race-Conscious Admissions.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Obama administration guidelines for LGBT student protections under Title IX remain in place, and the student codes at Liberty and Bob Jones Universities appear to violate them,” says Inside Higher Ed. (I’m Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College.