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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

History teachers… as part of their program should be required to know how to use all the amazing layers found in Google Earth. Math teachers should know about things like PhotoMath and how you could leverage this in the classroom. Or how about just on an professional level. How to respond to an upset student over email.

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How One Coding School Hopes to Teach Thousands of Students, Without Professors

Edsurge

Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. How do you take the professor out? With them learning by doing, it's just like when we learned how to walk or talk, they're learning from each other, they're observing, and they're actually doing things hands-on. How did you learn?

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Gamification. How To Create Learning Through Play (Heick 2013). I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces; I couldn’t miss because there was no such thing as a miss.” ” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). Genius Hour. .”

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A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

The following infographic/cheat sheet from @goboundless outlines some of the larger scale (eLearning) or controversial (MOOC) movements, as well as those on the rise (1:1, personalized learning), and providing working definitions for each. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Gamification. Virtual Classrooms. 1:1 Technology.

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