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12+ Missions Covering Various K12 Content for Meaningful Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

The Internet and social media provide learners with a worldwide audience in which to share their ideas, passions, innovations, thoughts, and brilliance. The Internet and social media also presents many influences that can negatively impact our physical, mental, spiritual, psychological, emotional, and social well-being.

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Integrating Technology Meaningfully with Mission Minded Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

They grew up with the Internet, social media, and mobile devices. Educators have experienced life without the Internet and social media. Join my free online course where we work on digital learning missions, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ). Don’t forget to get your copy of my book.

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The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018

Edsurge

And we also mulled over thorny emerging issues, such as the role social media plays in designing our lives, and concerns about the corporatization of education. MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.

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Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech is Part of the Problem

Edsurge

And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. And he thinks that the writing students do for their Instagram accounts and social media is actually great. That’s why the subtitle of my book is “killing the five-paragraph essay and other necessities.” That's exactly it.

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In 'PreparedU,' A College President Argues for Mixing Liberal Arts And Workplace Readiness

Edsurge

But Gloria Larson argues in a new book that all of higher education should embrace this mixture, and move past the notion that a college has to focus on either liberal arts or practical workplace preparation. The book is called PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success. They have to know social media.

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Course Round-Up: Summer Learning for Educators

MIND Research Institute

Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Below, we have collected some Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as open courseware, so you can choose your own learning adventure this summer.

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The future of classrooms

Learning with 'e's

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.