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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Various aspects of social justice also arose, including inequalities of access to digital educational content and accessibility/disability issues.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. Open access definitions: SPARC and OSI. OpenStax, “Why we champion perpetual access, free of charge” [link] . ACRL Standards.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

The combination of students and mobile devices in the classroom has long been a debate topic among education professionals. The use of mobile devices during classes is often regarded as an element of distraction for students. The first time I tried gamification with my students was during a seminar on green marketing and consumerism.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017.

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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Read part 1 , part 2 (about audio) , part 3 (about video) , and part 4 (about mobile tech in education). These divides, in turn, can lead to unequal educational access. This is part 5. This made a great deal of sense.

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Content questions can be used and teh teacher has access to all results. Incorporate in a Socrative Seminar. It is also be used on any computer at home or school, and on the go using the free mobile apps for iOS and Android. Create A Survey. How do you get started? Look for adjectives that describe a character in a book.