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"This was a presentation from a first grade teacher named Erin Schoening who was using Facebook with her students, their families, and other targeted members in the school community. In a world where there is such a fear of using Facebook in education even for high school, I wondered how she could succeed in using this as a tool with 1st graders???? Well, I wasn’t disappointed by my early rising. Here are some ways this teacher used Facebook to enrich teaching, learning, and connecting with families..." Students should meet learning expectations and show what they know. Competency-based systems are fundamentally different than traditional batch processing by birthday. Here's 10 elements of a blended and performance-based system. 
Looking into educational technology’s crystal ball for the fourth time, the annual Horizon Report for K-12 education has listed six emerging technologies that schools are likely to adopt in the near future. "These schools are havens for public school students who have struggled in conventional classrooms. There is a waiting list to get in and once they do, not only do they have one of the highest attendance rates, but there is also a 98% college acceptance rate. What’s more, unlike many graduates of traditional schools, Big Picture graduates say they feel prepared for college and career success..." Schools are moving to using the Internet as a teaching resource throughout the day, not just as an add-on, SETDA says... 
When you think of iOS and communication, you think of Skype or FaceTime, but there's a growing number of people who are using the device to... 
Every wondered what an educational video game has to have in order to be successful? Here's a list. 
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what's possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives. |
Langwitches has recently just put together another taxonomy of the iPad. It has some really great... "...Key among the ideas given is personalized learning via the Just in time, Just enough, Just for me admonishment, a vision nearly impossible without a fully engaged community, smart application of technology, or both. eLearning 3.0 Characteristics 1. Distributed Learning 2. Enhanced Mobile Technology 3. Collaborative Intelligent Filtering 4. 3D Visualization and Interaction..." 
Grockit's latest product re-configures online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries and ebooks into ordered lesson plans. 
Today's "Hot Topics Wednesdays" episode is dedicated to the concept of a flipped classroom that is still buzzing in the world of education in general and distance learning in particular. 
There’s something about an edupreneur (you know, an entrepreneur in the education sector). It’s one thing to have all that extraordinary drive, innovation and passion for creating a ... 
This looks like is might be a useful app for anyone who manages a school, alumni, or PTA/PTO Facebook page... -- SDS
"Facebook has just released their Facebook Pages Manager app for iOS." 
Peer Instruction Network member (PINm) Arthur, who teaches intro physics at UMass Lowell asks, “what percent of the class time should be used for Peer Instruction?” And PINm Mary who te... 
Honing Their Craft: As the Idaho Digital Learning Academy's liaison for southwestern Idaho, Jeff Farden occasionally makes face-to-face visits with the staff he mostly supervises online, like Notus... |
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