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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Learn more at the conference master classes page. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We Open Course Library – A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that teachers can download and use for teaching and learning. All content is stored in Google docs.

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Legends of Online Learning

Learning with 'e's

Last month, just before Christmas I recorded a podcast interview with Mark Nichols (formerly of the British Open University and now back working in New Zealand as Executive Director of the Open Polytechnic) for his series titled: Leaders and Legends of Online Learning. Unported License.

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OPINION: How online and traditional teachers can work together to bring more students into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Because of our early investment in online learning, Chickasaw City Schools were prepared to continue the semester when signs of the pandemic first reached Alabama. We already had the online curriculum. We already had the technological support. Our students need every chance we can give them to succeed.

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Number crunch: Edtech data you can use right now

eSchool News

“We need to teach children to live both with and without technology; to take what they need from the abundance of information, but to ignore what is not necessary; to let technology support, but never supplant human interactions in teaching and learning.” Is it equitable?

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High schoolers report on what it’s like doing school in a pandemic

The Hechinger Report

In this episode, you hear my older sister Luisa’s story, from her early difficulties in school, to my family’s struggle to ensure that she received proper assistance for her learning disabilities, to the moment in March when Covid-19 forced everything to change. Episode 2: “No laptop and no internet” Titilayo Aluko.

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OPINION: Some warning flags for those embracing personalized learning powered by education technology

The Hechinger Report

It means giving teachers choices in how much the technologies support and how much they automate instruction. It means designing new types of technology that do not misuse data for commercial purposes, but use algorithms for advancing the knowledge of all.

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With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

Edsurge

Drawing on lingo that has gained popularity among tech entrepreneurs, these online simulations of colleges are being called “metaversities.” It’s an incredibly natural fit for learning. The metaversities project appealed to Meta because it promised to make distance learning more immersive and active, and therefore more engaging.

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