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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. From adaptive learning to adaptive learners Siemens worries that current education systems aren’t adjusting to this new reality.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

To identify top challenges, we asked educators and education leaders to use a wiki survey crowdsourcing tool to answer the question: “Which is a bigger challenge in K-12 education?” We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? What kinds of solutions can be created to help?

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A Beginner’s Guide to #EdTech Open Source Software

Fractus Learning

Wikipedia has a huge list of Open Source software organized by functionality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages. For example, the web browser Firefox and the Learning Management System Moodle are both open source. Examples of Open Source Software.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Why Minecraft in Schools is the Modern Marvel: 5 Epic Ideas with Lucas Gillispie, manager of the US’ largest deployment of Minecraft in a school system. Current Events on the Gamifi-ed Wiki. Also note that quite a few items from the Gamifi-ed project are also included in my quick notes because I find them a useful reference. .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More via EdWeek’s Market Brief. What Should We Teach?”