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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs).

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Words Matter: Let’s Talk About Learning, Not Technology

Digital Promise

When the car mechanic wanted to learn a new system, she didn’t say she was “exploring OERs through a blended, flipped approach.” Let’s respect that and focus back on what they do every day in their classrooms. ” He was connecting with others. ” She was using her resources.

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Part 3: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OER Possibilities. This capability provides teachers the ability to use a multitude of OER (Open Education Resources) and web applications that are bountiful on the internet. While an LMS (Learning Management System) can provide some of these capabilities, many of the below tools can be integrated with an LMS. Control… Or No.

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Part 1: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Science

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Globe – Program is an international science and education program that provides students and the public worldwide with the opportunity to participate in data collection and the scientific process, and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the Earth system and global environment. Check out all the science areas.

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning: Five Ideas to Consider

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

The new text book might instead be the LMS (Learning Management System). Making the move toward a student centered classroom may actually be the main initiative. ▪Textbooks and OER. In fact it can even amplify teaching, as experienced in the flipped classroom. ▪Doors that Open. ▪Delivery of Learning.

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Blended Learning and Project Based Learning… Taking the PBL Gold Standards Online

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

How might some of these look in a blended classroom? OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson. Best of all, many of these lessons can be incorporated in a Learning Management System (LMS).

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Join me in future weeks as together we continue to explore several more posts devoted to the Flipped Classrooms, Project Based Learning, Assessing 21st century skills, PBL, STEM, technology integration, web resources, and digital literacy.