A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Common Core Camp in UAE , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here. Saturday, March 22nd at the Dubai Modern Education School, UAE Know.Do.Serve.Learn. Learn more here.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Common Core) for individual students. A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012). Rather than an outcomes-based and standards-driven approach, it instead seeks local accountability, new knowledge types, and overtly “human” learning models. Individualized Learning. The customizing of universal content (e.g.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

You can see neoliberalism, for example, in efforts towards privatization and the outsourcing of core technological capacities to third party vendors. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). In 2012, I chose “the platforming of education” as one of the “top ed-tech trends.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Common Core State Standards. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech.

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