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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

As a group, women said they were the least comfortable with programming and prototyping. In past MOOCs, authors engaged in Twitter chats, had guest speakers via YouTube, prompted educators to share their reflections through blogs and Facebook groups and challenged participants to create a weekly visual of their learning.

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Twitter and the death of distance

Learning with 'e's

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time.

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?Edtech is Trapped in Ben Bloom’s Basement

Edsurge

A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 11

Bryan Alexander

DeMillo leaps forward to what I think is the center of this chapter, the famous anti-MOOC letter from a group of San Jose State University philosophy faculty (2013) (4585ff). Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), ” Would you like to follow along?

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 7, “Pyramids”

Bryan Alexander

“[I]t did allow existing institutions to continue operating much as they had before, forever climbing a hierarchy that they no longer understood…” (3205) Can’t we apply this critique to MOOCs, especially the elite-heavy edX group? Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

In Los Angeles , that might mean kids joining at libraries and the Getty Center to hone their art and computer coding skills. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. Your learning will be directed by you.”

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