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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems. K-12 learners.

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Change The Conversation–It’s Not About The Thinking

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Content-based academic standards. Use of data. Mobile learning. Let’s pretend for a moment that we will eventually be able to design a system of teaching and learning where every single student will be able to master every single academic standard their local government has set out for them.

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The Real Problem With Multiple-Choice Questions

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This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty.

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7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future

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This is directly tied to research literacy, as both digital and digitized data sources serve as primary research resources. Shift From Standards To Habits. This is among the biggest and most powerful ideas in “future learning,” and should be central to any meaningful discussion therein. Connectivism.

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Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities

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The wrinkles arise however as teachers strive to realize a vision for education that is, as things are, entirely impossible: For every student to master every academic standard. This, however, is a (small) part of the problem, like checking a rubric and data during your first date to see how things are going. Data teams.

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13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years

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Modern learners must consume, evaluate, and integrate constantly changing data in highly-dynamic and visible contexts. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work.