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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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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

Yeah, Wikipedia, for example is toying with the idea of doing a chat wiki that basically feeds only off of Wikipedia, where at least the information has gone through a vetted process and is not just bilge. In other cases they're funded by contributions and voluntary donations and that sort of thing.

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

Edsurge

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." 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.

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4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you have an LMS you love, Google Classroom often won’t work well with it because it isn’t well-aligned with industry standards. a database, wiki, or photo gallery . Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 20 years. It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account. forums and chats .

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Over on Flickr, my students and I would be looking at Industrial Revolution photos from the University of British Columbia, Matthew Brady’s Civil War photos from the National Archives, news photos from the 1910s from the Library of Congress, and Great Depression photos from the New York Public Library. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Because universities are more than just girls under trees

Mark Smithers

Once you start to add the other interested parties; students, professional staff, teachers, sessional academics, politicians, industry partners you get many, many more opinions. wiki]Clark Kerr[/wiki] once described this as a multiversity in that the idea of the university varies widely according to who you ask.

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