The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Webinar Description: Chances are you are reading this description on a digital device: laptop, cellphone or tablet. A doctoral candidate at the University of Montana, Jason is studying open education resources, online learning and the impact of internet filtering on classroom technology integration. LIVE on February 11, 2017.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching. NPR put out a call on Twitter and Facebook, and among the responses were families with students at a dozen private schools around the country that are holding live online classes via video chat for up to five hours per day.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. Will I be able to call them up on the day before my lab and say, ‘Can you come and update 24 laptops before tomorrow?'”

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2012

He has been a prime mover in some of the most innovative projects for technology supported learning in the past few years. He was co-creator of the Twitter weekly discussion group #Edchat and he hosts the Web 2.0 Kids need to learn math and learn how to read and kids only use those devices to play games, not to learn.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, I had a very interesting program I assigned, that students could down load onto the ipod or watch using their laptop. This summer, I am trying to learn more about mobile devices and technology that interact with it. I thought students would prefer this to reading a boring article about the same topic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Gearing up for their district’s password-reset day in October, teachers and school administrators in Raytown, Missouri, watched a spoof video “gym” tour by their tech-support staff, who offered tips for stronger passwords amidst “laptop lunges” and “cross-tech” training.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops. They’re amazing.

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MindShift

MARCH 11, 2020

In Washington state, Reykdal says some schools are exploring online learning. “And if they can’t deliver that when they choose to jump to an online model, it’s unlikely they’re providing a legal basis for an equitable education.” It makes the bar for universal online learning very difficult to meet.”

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. That's a lot of computers. emailed W-2 forms and employee information to a person posing as the superintendent.

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My Island View

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

After being involved in social media for over a decade, I have made a few observations that might be helpful to folks who use social media, more specifically Twitter, to develop and maintain a Personal Learning Network. Using Twitter for professional learning requires a collaborative mindset. This requires work.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

According to the district’s superintendent, Dr. Mark Benigni, their cloud-based solutions, including ClassLink, supports students spending additional time online learning. You can follow Eileen on Twitter @EileenBelastock. The post Leading Learning in a Blended Environment appeared first on edWeb.

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MindShift

MARCH 19, 2020

As colleges across the country pivot online on very short notice, there are a host of complications — from laptops and Internet access to mental health and financial needs. Digital learning experts have some surprising advice: do less. And make sure that students have the opportunity to be connected to each other as well.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 7, 2020

This book is great for any kind of devices–tablets, laptops, Chromebooks, anything! How will this book help with remote learning? Holly shares 20 super tools in this book that will help teachers and students with remote teaching and learning. You can follow her on twitter and Instagram @HollyClarkEdu.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If you need to hear a positive outlook and some inspiration about distance/hybrid learning right now, I think you’ll really enjoy this conversation. On teacher clarity in online learning: We have to make sure we’re communicating with students and their families about when they need to be on and what they need to be doing.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We've seen lately, particularly with the switch to online learning, a push for the automation of cheating prevention. They require a student show photo identification to their laptop camera before the test begins. It then matches that data that to the student's "biometric faceprint" captured by the laptop camera.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Her dream long ago was to create an online place for educators that was safe and secure with all the tools and resources in one place. She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there was Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest. Barbara is what some call a “Digital Pioneer.” and other countries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). You can now learn Klingon on Duolingo , Techcrunch reports. More Techcrunch churnalism : “This eQuoo app games you into learning useful psychological skills.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” Incidentally, I saw lots of harassment online this week from these predatory journal folks , but as Bill Fitzgerald notes, Twitter still does little to address abuse on its platform.).

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