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With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs).
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?
Among them, I’ve updated my site to include a dedicated FAQ on open educational resources (OER). The FAQ is a collaboration of many involved with the movement and includes an OER infographic , suitable for downloading and re-sharing. My thanks to EdSurge for highlighting its availability. What then of the students?
A toolkit for teachers will be made available at the end of the 2015-2016 school year as an OER (open education resources), allowing other teachers across the world to follow this method of quad engineering. “So You can also follow the movement on socialmedia with the hashtag #appsthatmatter. 404-913-2737.
K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).
When my colleagues and I wrote our SocialMedia Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Socialmedia curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. Curating OER. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. What’s curation?
Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.
Global Leadership Week (GLW) is a week-long celebration of leadership through global action in K-20 education, taking place April 25 - 29, 2016, and organized by the Global Education Conference (GEC) Network. If your organization is a sponsor or a non-profit, we will promote your event through socialmedia.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 12:00 pm (PDT): Opening Keynote Panel: Defining the Library as Classroom Michael Stephens, Michael Casey, Brian Kenney, Joyce Valenza, and Jessamyn West. Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Be sure to also join the Library 2.0
Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #sustainabilityinlibraries on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded. REGISTER HERE to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own socialmedia surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Recordings from previous years are available under the Archives tab at Library 2.0 and at the Library 2.0 YouTube channel. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0 He holds an M.Ed
Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their socialmedia posts leading up to and during the event. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0 He holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. Claims on SocialMedia : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.
Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on socialmedia and asking him to kill her teacher.” — Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. ” “ Deloitte Publishes 2016 Digital Education Survey,” says Edsurge. ” The Other US Clown Crisis.
Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on socialmedia Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?
Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of socialmedia; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”
I suspect the spark for them was Bernie Sanders’ proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign, as that clearly resonated with many voters, especially younger ones, and was soon revised and taken up by Hillary Clinton’s team. They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities.
” For those keeping track of how great socialmedia is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, SocialMedia Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. I might have missed some in this back-and-forth.
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. ” ClassDojo is now a full socialmedia platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”). ” The Business of Financial Aid.
Lots of details this week as tech executives testified in front of Congress about Russian interference in the 2016 election. ” “How SocialMedia Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless.
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Amazon Inspire.
“ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. ” Via Campus Technology : “Study: More Underrepresented Students Rely on SocialMedia for College Search.” .” ( No disclosure about shared investors.).
Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on socialmedia,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” Commencement and Awards.
I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on socialmedia. Via WHIO : “ School socialmedia director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.” Via eCampus News : “ Cengage launches MindTap ACE, an OER-based solution for higher ed.”
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