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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

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

TeachThought - Learn better.

A description of a learning environment where there is one “screen” for each student (whether an iPad, laptop, etc.). Gamification. A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology. Activity-Based Learning. ” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). ” (11).

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. Take iPads , for example. Or MOOCs even. Blockchain : “ 10 amazing ways Blockchain could be used in education ” by Donald Clark. (I’ll Bonus: “ 5.3 Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes.