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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. Check out this wonderful magazine for some great K12 educational articles, I will be presenting at Alan November’s BLC in Boston in July. It also provides a host of world and news and training on the amazing arena of open education!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” Contests and Awards.

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Final Schedule + Speakers Posted - Join Us for "Library as Classroom" Mini Conference This Wednesday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

1:00 pm (PDT) Fast and Fit Brain Training: Through a Library Service Delivery Model, Year Two Patricia Shepard Sohmer, M.A., 1:00 pm (PDT) Fast and Fit Brain Training: Through a Library Service Delivery Model, Year Two Patricia Shepard Sohmer, M.A.,

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What information and training must be provided to students and parents to ensure success? A list can be made in a priority order and training planned. Tech and Learning Magazine e-Learning Resources – Since I am an advisor for the magazine I thought I would include this list of abundant resources. 2017 Beyond SAMR.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Speaking of Michigan State and Nassar, via The State News : “Original MSU alumni magazine leaked.” The Business of Job Training (and Education as an Employment Benefit). Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”).

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The Business of Job Training. Once upon a time, I’d have put Udacity in the MOOC section above, but I’m sticking this profile by RealClear Education here in the job training section: “Online Educator Udacity Adapts Courses to Changing Labor Market.” ” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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