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Lessons Learned During My First Year as a Community College President

Edsurge

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray.

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. All FYS courses, however, are intended to have some common outcomes and it’s those common outcomes that the faculty senate updated.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. For example, YouTube, social media, news websites, even self-help videos/blogs which are present in every possible genre. What makes your LMS a social learning platform?

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Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Students can see how texting, emailing, video conferencing, Socratic Seminars, online discussions, and face to face conversation all provides different takes when communicating. Various avenues of communication provide students different opportunities to learn while facilitating those important communication skills.

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ASHA Here I Come!

SpeechTechie

Learner Outcomes: Participants will be able to: · identify key areas in which technology can enhance their practice. This session will present a survey and demonstration of key technology skills, with a specific eye on how SLPs can apply these skills in their practice. develop understanding and confidence in applying selected tech skills.

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In the same boat

Learning with 'e's

Each in its own way wants to measure and judge the effectiveness of education, but each does it in the wrong way - by relying exclusively on metrics that impose impossible pressures on teachers and students alike, and ultimately end up getting in the way of good learning outcomes.

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Stop working off a deficit model with 3 assessment ideas that support student individuality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Social media caption: The latest trend in assessment tools and gimmicks is the adaptive, “smart” test and the use of individualized learning plans to improve test scores. But what these tests and the resulting learning plans do, is work off a deficit model that only serves to influence the outcome of the test itself.