article thumbnail

20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. Of course, Google Classroom would also make a great tool for the lit circles within our classes and on our campus. Badging Systems.

Google 145
article thumbnail

Crowdfunding Meets Webinar: How One Organization Uses Slack to Tackle Global Challenges

Edsurge

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. But instead of using a tool like WebEx or GoToWebinar, we use Slack , a mobile messaging platform.

Meeting 66
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

UDL’s principles are powerful supports for Opportunity Youth who have opted out of schools and learning environments that failed to meet their needs. We have turned these YouthBuild classrooms into front-line PD for the Fellows to develop knowledge and use tools to recognize and respond to student learning differences. Learn More.

UDL 218
article thumbnail

It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

article thumbnail

The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. MOOCs appear first in the filmstrip category, because by 2014, higher ed pretty much thought that MOOCs were dead.

article thumbnail

The Future Belongs to Online Learners — But Only If Programs Can Help Them Succeed

Edsurge

Maggioncalda calls Coach a “hands-on, interactive” tool, one that lets learners set their own pace with the material. Coursera’s tinkering with engagement tools points to a stark hypothesis about what may be hurtling toward the American higher education system. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

Coursera 180
article thumbnail

Honoring Unique Student Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

“ We must meet our students exactly where they are with exactly the brains they have right now. We must use all the tools we have available to us and not expect them to fit into a mold or all behave exactly the same. ” – Dr. Gene R.

Learning 223