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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

Have a VLE or LMS where students and parents can check grades, homework, see student work, be notified of important notices, and find important information. Discover more about virtual learning environments and learning management systems here. Here are two examples: Facebook.com/NewMilfordHS. Twitter.com/NewMilfordHS.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. OS – Operation system (e.g. VLE – Virtual Learning Environment. DOK – Depth Of Knowledge.

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Inspire Learning Beyond Your Classroom Walls by Setting Up a Virtual Learning Community

Teacher Reboot Camp

These platforms are online and accessible 24 hours, 7 days a week on multiple devices (computers, tablets, mobile devices and Chromebooks). Canvas is a learning management system that allows teachers to create courses, create quizzes, deliver assignments, set up online discussions, and monitor student progress, absences, and more.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). That is Martin Dougiamas , only the creator and global cat-herder of Moodle , the leading open source LMS and one of the world’s two leading such systems. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century.

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Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond

Bryan Alexander

Ah, the learning management system ( LMS ) ( VLE to some people). That is Martin Dougiamas , only the creator and global cat-herder of Moodle , the leading open source LMS and one of the world’s two leading such systems. I’ve been tracking it since the 20th century.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. Schools using radio-trackers on students' ID cards and monitoring students' mobile phones to make sure they're in class.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ).

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