Graphite Blog

JULY 16, 2020

With so much uncertainty about the 2020–2021 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic, one fact remains: The skills and resources that reflective, dedicated teachers need to navigate remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments are plentiful -- and ever evolving. We hope you find something that fits your needs and schedule!

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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EdTechnocation.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Author: Mathieu Plourde {(Mathplourde on Flickr) This week marks the beginning of the How to Teach Online MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). What is a MOOC you may ask? A MOOC is very similar to university courses but typically do not offer course credits. What is your intention for this course (why are you here)?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 4, 2017

There are chapters that argue for the quality of OER resources, for the utility of Open Pedagogy, and for the transformational potential of these approaches and resources. There are also “how to” guides describing how scholars and educators implemented their approach to open in their particular setting.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

This online opportunity is open to anyone interested in learning how to use Twitter and other media sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students and will take place this summer from July 7 – August 17. using social media tools.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. Much of this reflection is likely to take place within the often siloed communities of practice in K-12 and higher education.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 3, 2014

For Unit 3 of the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , we explored the TPACK and SAMR frameworks. The technology we have is often way under utilized, mostly because the teachers are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with how to use them appropriately and effectively. Digital edtech Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers need support to know how to best work with students and their learning differences, including the varied learning needs of Opportunity Youth. The Fellows also participate in a MOOC focused on understanding and responding to learning differences in their classroom. Teaching Differently to Engage all Learners. Learn More.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. It is far too easy to violate copyright law while on the internet, and many students, and even teachers, still don''t understand how the law works and how to protect it. Please comment on the document and add your resources, opinions, and ideas!

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2017

From MOOCs to digital study aids to virtual tutoring, there are many ways for students to hone their academic skills while still maintaining flexibility in their schedules. The key is in knowing how to use these resources to their advantage. Participate in a MOOC that covers a subject/skill he or she is lacking.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. Students who are falling behind will have the resources online so they can catch up at home. VLEs aid the dissemination of student films so they can be critiqued by the class outside of school hours.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 12, 2014

Each day was filled with new and exciting challenges, trying to figure out how we could best help our teachers understand technology integration, while keeping our PD fresh and engaging. The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. But what does all that mean?

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

” His view is that at this early stage of online education’s development, with internet connectivity no longer an issue, the next step is to figure out how to properly leverage technologies to enhance personalized learning Click to tweet.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. Library patrons traditionally come in, find resources, and are left on their own to learn the material. For all the promises of online courses disrupting education, completion rates are notoriously low.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The institution has hosted a national forum and virtual conference and produced a MOOC and a book exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology in the field of information systems. Researchers there are seeking funding for a blockchain experiment in how to grant people access to resources at multiple libraries.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 28, 2018

Drew Perkins talks with author, professor, and MOOC instructor Barb Oakley about their differences and intersections of thinking about teaching and learning. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Barbara Oakley’s web site @barbaraoakley Learning How To Learn Coursera MOOC New York Times Opinion […].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After choosing Minecraft as an in-class resource, I found that not everyone knew how to play—including me! Many students go on to create such guides themselves, learning how to edit wikis and take screenshots, or capture, narrate and edit in-game footage in the process. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

The idea is to encourage widespread use of digital credentials across all kinds of academic institutions, and even at more informal places of learning, so that students end up taking ownership of how to communicate their learning to employers. Not every university is Harvard, Berkeley and MIT,” Cheney notes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

How do you see those two trends in relation to one another? They are using whatever resources they have to respond to it differently. They want to be the first at that table to try to chase the student who maybe not be as well prepared but don’t need too many more institutional resources to succeed. I can’t imagine that market.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 26, 2015

Or even a less known hashtag that you know your followers check regularly, like for a currently running MOOC on a relevant topic. Hopefully they’ve figured out how to favorite and reply (without you instructing them on how to do that) because they want to thank others.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How many new jobs that don’t exist today will a person have during a 150-year lifespan? Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. And so on… . government as well.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

I didn't have any connections who could tell me how to be a professor or what I needed to do to prepare. When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Source: Practice Labs Byun’s favorite online learning resources Byun believes “doing is better than reading.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. It covers how to use kinematics to describe translational motion; ways to apply the concepts of motion, force, mechanical energy and momentum; and new strategies for solving motion problems. . “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful! The educators you meet will share resources, experience, and offer support!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.” More than 60 universities around the world currently assign the site’s resources. “In

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Learn how to learn. Here’s how to make this easy, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: In the past, a university degree provided a majority of graduates with the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers. Yet many students do not have a solid understanding of how to effectively go about the process of upskilling.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Over the last few years, we’ve traded resources, articles and work samples as we try to build our own starter kit for this fast-moving field. If you’re looking for a crash course in the entire design thinking process, you can check out the free course offered by IDEO.org or the free resources from IDEO’s Teacher’s Guild.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

And I remember one of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. Because you’ve got all these resources around, but you don’t know how to organize them. Here are the resources I need to fill the gap.” And I go out from there. Here’s where I want to go.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts. Students and teachers are involved in many after school programs that could utilize Google Classroom to share resources and improve communication and collaboration. We can also use Google Classroom to help connect and share resources within our school clubs and organizations.

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Wired Campus

MAY 12, 2015

“There’s a steep learning curve to figuring out how to use this technology with our students, and with our teaching style,” said Douglas Johnson, an associate professor of psychology and director of the Center for Learning, Teaching, and Research at Colgate University, a founding member of the group.

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