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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Or one for the Robotics Club, National Honor Society, Made with Code, Girls/Boys Scouts, etc. Parent Information Classes. We hold informational parent meetings about all kinds of initiatives like the rollout of a 1:1 program, opening a new school, bonds, transition to middle or high school, AP courses, etc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill follows up on the Edsurge article with his own analysis : “ MOOCs Now Focused on Paid Certificates and OPM Market.”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. What they’ve found is that the most effective tutors give just enough information or guidance to get the learner back on track, often posing questions rather than giving answers. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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Next Week - The Library 2.0 "Emerging Technology" Mini-Conference - All Keynotes and Sessions Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.

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#DLNchat: How Could Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Higher Education?

Edsurge

Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.” The result can be jarring.”

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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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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

There’s some shared information across them, but we have multiple FAQs going, we have lots of advice. At Duke we’ve been thinking about, like a lot of universities, a “robot-proof future,” and thinking about the sixty-year curriculum. It started with technical advice, like how do I use Zoom? We need to be thinking about that.

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