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I sift through reams of words and worlds of pedagogy. I blink through bytes of pedagogy and educational concerns. May 2013 and still the drums beat on about 21st Century Learning. May 2013, and one... Delete the scoop?
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It's a fine line between being creative to meet kids' needs and seeing education as open marketplace.
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I heard Gary Stager speak at a technology conference, a few years back. I'd been following him for some time, via his intelligent blog posts and articles--and was very surprised that the room where he was speaking was virtually empty, with maybe a dozen people in attendance. Nearly everyone in the audience came from the previous packed keynote, held in the ballroom next door, called "Free is Good!" Stager's remarks were provocative and smart. He opened his presentation by noting that, contrary to the fast-talking, extended commercial for Web 2-point-whatever no-cost goodies we'd just experienced, none of those tools was truly "free." Someone's making money, he said. And it's almost a certainty that the someone is not in the classroom, or even an educator. While tech-based tools can absolutely transform learning, most of them are now are serving other goals: administrative tasks, jazzing up traditional direct instruction, impressing parents and soaking up public resources in the name of "innovation." It's not about kids' self-directed learning, at all. Don't be fooled. Delete the scoop?
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How The Brain Works--And How Students Can Respond
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"A key to making your brain work optimally, then, is to keep yourself physically healthy and well rested and to develop awareness of—and some control over—your emotions. Then you can approach learning calmly and with positive emotions. Practice focusing and observing yourself, for example, by taking a short break from work to check in with your emotions. Just take a few minutes to think about what you’re feeling. If it’s a good feeling, take time to enjoy it and consider how your good emotional state affects your thinking. Do you understand more and get ideas about what you might do with the information you’re learning? If you don’t like the way you’re feeling, think about times you’ve felt a similar negative emotion (like anxiety or loneliness). What has helped you return to a better mood in the past?" Delete the scoop?
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Twelve collaboration principles that successful organizations follow. Delete the scoop?
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Legendas em Português e Inglês Subtitles in Portuguese and English JK Rowling, the most successful author to date, sets out to explore her family tree. She m... Delete the scoop?
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In 2009, Coca Cola set out to refresh the way soda was dispensed at restaurants such as McDonalds and Moe’s. It aimed to put choice in customers’ hands. It intended to empower its customer with the act of artistry. Delete the scoop?
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These are 7 great tips to create an engaging, relevant online course. With these guidelines, you'll be sure to impress! Delete the scoop?
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TED-Ed is a fine example of connectivism. People working together to share, connect to and build upon ideas. You could use TED-Ed simply as a learning consumer by watching the lessons. Learners,... Delete the scoop?
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"Inspiring hope in a cynical world might be the most radical thing you can possibly do."
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Before you finished getting out of bed, brushing your teeth with clean tap water, putting on clothes, making breakfast, turning off the light, walking out the door, you are benefiting from the work of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals from all around the world. They all deserve your spirit of generosity. So walk with humility and reverence for the human endeavor, and know it’s your job to help take that endeavor forward. Delete the scoop?
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Presentation for B.A. IT students in "Perspectives in the Digital Age" module, NUI Galway, 17th November 2011 
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Here is a really interesting and informative presentation about Learning and Social Media. You don't even need a narrator. It is full of tons of helpful links and resources - evan content curation and a scoop.it shoutout! Delete the scoop?
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Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, an
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At the totally wired, textbook-free New Tech Institute in Evansville, Indiana, high school students are online for all their assignments, working on Dell laptops in 90-minute subject blocks. Principal Michael Allen admits that keeping students simultaneously connected and focused for that length of time has been a big challenge. “It is very hard to manage teenagers with technology for 90 minutes of academic purpose,” he said. But Allen emphasizes that, when dealing with new and emerging technologies, there will undoubtedly be new and emerging behaviors that will need guidance — a responsibility he believes falls somewhat on schools. Much like Howard Rheingold’s call to name attention as a vital digital skill in his book NetSmart, Allen thinks it’s important not only to teach kids how to use technology, it’s important to show them how to be aware of what they’re doing while using it, too. Delete the scoop?
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"I’ve been blogging for a very, very long time now, and in doing so I have found incredible support online — found myself part of many intellectual, personal, and professional communities. But the “community” — that is, the commenters and my interactions with them — on my early personal blogs was quite different than what exists on most the technology blogs I’ve since worked and written for. More often, it’s not “community” at all. And as Hack Education has gained a larger readership, the commenters have become more like the latter (like tech sites) than the former. Yet, Hack Education remains my personal (albeit education-focused) blog. It’s just me here. No other staff. No “social media editor.” No “community manager.” That makes the comments — particularly the hostile ones — harder to deal with. It’s become increasingly clear to me that I am not building any sort of community through the comments on this site. If nothing else, I just don’t have the time (or the stomach) to moderate and respond. And moderation of comments is absolutely necessary. That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my readers and my peers and my friends and my colleagues online. That’s not to say I don’t believe in engaging with my critics. That’s not to say I’m uninterested in hearing feedback (or copy-editing) on my stories. But blog comments just aren’t the place that this is happening." Delete the scoop?
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A fifth-grade teacher uses her smart board to teach multiple subjects and, despite the occasional power outage, finds that it engages her students in ways a chalkboard never could. Delete the scoop?
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EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY I have become even more intrigued with Instructional Design and Technology as I read more about the increased demand for online learning. The convenience of getting a quali... Delete the scoop?
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To get more out of your team, first figure out how your employees (and you) work best--and then assign tasks accordingly. Delete the scoop?
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Lumen Learning and Instructure broke new ground for open education today with the introduction of six open course frameworks that make teaching with open content easier and more effective than ever before. Delete the scoop?
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May 11, 2012: USC Annenberg School of Communication 2012 Commencement Address by Maria Shriver The USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism cele... Delete the scoop?
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Here's what Washington insiders are said to think about education policy.
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What exactly does one wear when giving a Keynote Lecture? Delete the scoop?
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"Imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time."
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If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now. Delete the scoop?
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From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn ... 
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We need to create those environments where learning is ongoing and flows with social interactions. Etienne Wenger's work on communities of practice provides examples of how things do happen and how we learn. Delete the scoop?
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Should social impact enterprises use the stories of their staff to drum up business?
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In the case of companies like these, where the core social benefit is the employment of people from diverse backgrounds, the questions they are asking themselves might be, “Is it a waste of a competitive advantage to overlook this marketing opportunity and in effect gain more support for the employees?” But perhaps more need to be asking, “Can marketing the social impact end up harming the people we are trying to help?” Delete the scoop?
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April Aasheim shares her top ten reasons why she wouldn't start her next novel without Scrivener. Delete the scoop?
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