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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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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology. The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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And just as universities haven’t been ‘job training facilities,’ more immediately, neither has K-12. When we seek to train students, we have to ask ourselves what we’re training them for, and make sure we can live with the consequences.” The rub comes when universities seek to revise themselves. An example?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Free or Low-Cost Resources for PD in Distance Learning

Graphite Blog

Master classes for deeper dives into technology applications and office hours with presenters are also available. Teaching Digital Citizenship (free) This roughly one-hour, interactive online training prepares educators to teach students the crucial skills and dispositions to be mindful and responsible online citizens. " A bonus?

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Not so sure how folks plan to do their beloved STEM without the S or the E in this future, but hey. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” asks The Atlantic.

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