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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

During my tenure as technology director at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School in Miami, the idea of makerspaces — collaborative workspaces that are growing more and more popular across the country — intrigued me, from both a pedagogical and a technological perspective. Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. "The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.

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29 Sessions to Watch During This Year's SXSW EDU

Edsurge

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. EdSurge 4:00 p.m. A Flipped Future?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. What is a “Platform”?

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology.

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10Q: Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Learning with 'e's

She has co-founded and organized the acclaimed educational projects, Edchat , ELTChat , The Reform Symposium E-Conference and the ELTON nominated Virtual Round Table language and technology conference. The Virtual Round Table E-Conference - another free online conference I help organize that focuses on language and technology.