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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. You can create a community of learners in your school, your department, and through social media. Social Media Social media can be used to safely engage learners.

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Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

Edsurge

Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. He runs the weekly #xplap chat in Twitter, engaging hundreds of followers, and has recently launched his YouTube channel. I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

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This is the outcome of a combination of forces: our persistent desire to get more people into and through higher education, and our anxieties about the spiraling growth of student debt and college tuition. I was also surprised to see so little development in gaming and gamification within education this past year.

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