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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). GAFE – Google Apps For Education (include Google Docs, Google Sites etc). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning.

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Innovation In E-learning In The Last 10 Years

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According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. This is the level of vitality of smartphones which makes it necessary for the e-learning industry to introduce mLearning, i.e., mobile learning on a large scale. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Learning at the Speed of Technology - David Jakes

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Example: WeVideo for Google Drive.) Where it is not locked in a learning management system? (Ex: Ex: Google Apps accounts). School as Network Learning is now independent of time, space, and place. Learning not limited to a class roster. Schools serv to link learniers.

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

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The allotment of a specified amount of time in a formal learning environment for the purpose of self-directed learning. (23). Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Google Classroom. Mobile Learning.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Google Earth. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” Smarter Every Day on YouTube. Khan Academy.

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Give Your Traditional Syllabus a Needed Makeover!

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I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Gamify your syllabus!

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.