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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

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A report from The Partnership for Leaders in Education at the University of Virginia (UVA-PLE), “Exploring New Frontiers for K-12 Systems Transformation,” determined that these challenges have sparked a transformation of education systems in the United States. “Innovation should spark success.

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How edtech supports the success of the Nordic Education

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For example: outdoor technology-enhanced playful learning environments (PLEs) were designed and implemented in some schoolyards in Finland, where Finnish scholars advanced a number of learning-by-play theories, from dedicated institutes such as the University of Helsinki’s Playful Learning Center. Closing thoughts.

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Games for girls

Learning with 'e's

Check out this little gem from Dan Kennedy on the VLE/PLE debate. Here is the title and abstract: Playing Games: Do Game Consoles have a Positive Impact on Girls’ Learning Outcomes and Motivation? It''s also very motivating for them. Some of my previous students have published in journals in the past few years. Congratulations Lucy!

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Ugh. Classic Politics Now Extends to Social Networking in Education.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There is a reason that so many acronyms in this arena start with P for "personal:" PLN (Personal Learning Network), (PLC) Personal Learning Communities, and PLE (Personal Learning Environments). This is closely related to, and maybe an inherent part, of seeing education as a set of outcomes rather than a process.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. Self regulation has been shown to enhance and improve learning outcomes (Paris & Byrnes, 1989; Steffens, 2008), enabling learners to achieve their full potential (Delfino et al , 2008).

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

- Mark Otter, Chief Product Officer Earth E/mergent - Global Virtual Sensing Networks for Gaian Educational Emergence - Marna Hauk, Graduate Faculty Multicultural Game Design Teams as an Intro to Computer Science - Mark Suter, Teacher 10:00am ED4ALL - The Inter-American Teacher Education Network (ITEN) and the Inter-American Collaboratory on the Teaching (..)

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Week of February 14, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

link] DISEÑO DE ENTORNOS PERSONALES DE APRENDIZAJE (PLE), REDES PERSONALES DE APRENDIZAJE (PLN) Y ENTORNOS ( Aula 2.0 ) Tue 15 Feb 09:00PM New York / Wed 16 Feb 02:00AM GMT / Wed 16 Feb 01:00PM Sydney Tomas Chaskel. Join this webinar to participate in a "live" discussion of P2PU "Psychology of Math Learning" class.

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