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How to educate in the 4th Industrial Revolution

eSchool News

Evidence that we’re in the middle of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is all around us. As individuals interested in empowering the next generation of young people to succeed, it is time to ensure that the field of education is appropriately responding to the 4IR, which has impacted nearly every industry in recent years.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student. colleges use at least one.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. We’d learn how to make our own maps using Google’s mapping tools , then check out the maps that others have made.

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4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. Designed by Freepik. It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. Siemens’ work is on the cutting edge of what’s possible in digital learning, but he doesn’t want to discuss the latest fads in education technology. “Our Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Reusable cooking objects

Learning with 'e's

Here at the University of Plymouth we actually have a CETL - a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning - dedicated to Sustainable Futures. We have also seen a movement toward ' reusable learning objects ' (Erm, I have to confess that this has confused the hell out of me. I then replicated the wiki 13 times more and let it loose.

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Font Lust & Other Graphic Desires

The Daring Librarian

Therefore it follows, that a blog, article, preso, wiki, etc. NEUTRAFACE from House Industries. This does take extra work but I have help & directions in this blog and on my Daring Tech Wiki ! It''s a real tough learning curve, Second Life is! But it''s also all part of being a Presentation Ninja and an impt.

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