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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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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 . It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account. It’s not well-suited if you use Microsoft Office programs. 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.

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Transparency is the New Black

The Daring Librarian

Just try one of the 8 to see which you like best- and always I would say, start with a Wiki! Sure, lib guides and live binders are good - but for ease of use and day to day webby goodness nothing beats a wiki! Choose a Protected (free) Everyone can view pages, only wiki members can edit them.

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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 ! But it''s also all part of being a Presentation Ninja and an impt. VIRAL SECRET! Sadly, hot can be expensive! gave in & got it.

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