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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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

Edsurge

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. .” Of course. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Ashford U. Faces New Setback in Battle Over GI Bill Funds.” ” asks Hackernoon.