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The latest news related to the meaningful and effective implementation of educational technology and e-learning in K-12, higher education, corporate and government sectors.
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"Educators who’ve been wanting to use YouTube videos in class can now find an easy way in. Today, YouTube launched its own teacher’s channel: YouTube.com/Teachers, a guide to using videos in class."
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Please tell us about the types of instructional and education technologies that you think can make the biggest impact on education.
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"Here is a list of predictions I made in 2001 about the classroom of the future. I’m pleasantly surprised about how accurate it has turned out to be – but I think it will be even more challenging to predict the next ten years because there are so many options opening up. What are your predictions for the next ten years? And is it worth bothering to make such predictions anyway?"
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"Universities are often at the forefront of intellectual thought, but they have been known to lag behind the rest of society when it comes to learning and adopting new technologies. Such has certainly been the case with social media technologies. In fact, so reluctant were universities to adopt social media on campus that in 2007, only about half of colleges reported social media usage."
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"My keystrokes often substitute for my presence. That's not good! But that's not the biggest downside to technology. Far worse is what e-mail has done to our expectations and level of discourse."
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"Will digital textbooks simply 'replace' existing textbooks, providing 'jazzier' educational content, but be utilized by students and teachers in much the same way as paper-bound textbooks were in the past? Or will this be part of a more fundamental transformation in the way teaching and learning occurs? These are big questions for which there are no clear answers yet."
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Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
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Almost one-third of U.S. adults prefer to be reached by text message rather than a call on their mobile phone, finds a new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.
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Using Google Plus as a base, this blog post speaks of ways in which Social Networks could influence Learning.
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"So what distinguishes a connectivist perspective from social constructivism? The difference is fairly subtle. As far as I can see, connectivism resonates with similar principles as social constructivism does, but acknowledges a greater degree of complexity in the nature of knowledge and learning, enabled by advances in technology." Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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A 7th grade class goes on a field trip to gaming giant Valve’s headquarters. Watch the video.
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"In every educational talk I give, and in speaking with other teachers in my
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"Most rookie Instructional Designers have a misconception that Instructional Design is quite academic in nature. I was a part of the vast majority up until a few months ago. Over time, I realized that most Instructional Design theories are rooted in common sense. However, as Instructional Design beginners, we are so overawed by these theories that we fail to understand the simple principles behind them."
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"There are many arguments for using social media in education... One of the most powerful arguments is simply because Facebook is, and has been since its creation, a Web site that students want to use."
"There are a number of new tools that aim to blend social and studying aspects. One of them is Hoot.me, a Facebook application that turns the social networking site into “study mode."
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"During the middle of the twentieth century a psychologist name Benjamin Bloom created a classification system to identify levels of thinking. This arrangement is known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. Intellectual processes are ordered from the most basic, “knowledge” to the most complex, “evaluation”. Recently, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been updated to reflect modern research and educational principles."
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With the proper guidance from parents and teachers, social media sites such as Facebook and Google+ can be powerful educational tools.
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August 15, 2013 6:43 PM
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January 31, 2022 11:47 PM
I enjoyed how this article allowed for this question to be asked and also be answered. Social Media is made available to people of ages 13 and older and even at that many question whether or not they should be in it. But this article addresses this issue as well.
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From the layman users to businesses, almost everyone is part of the online social ecosystem. Now, the education industry seems to be picking pace as things are getting social in schools and universities.
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We recently asked readers: “What are the qualities of an effective 21st-century educator?” Here are our readers' top responses.
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"If ICT means the use of computers in schools and classrooms and if learning means what academic content, skills, and behaviors students can perform in and out of school, then the massive investment over the past 30 years in wiring schools, buying computers and the latest hand-held device has fallen far short of being a “revolution” in students’ learning and teachers’ teaching (Failure of computers PDF 1995). While not a fruitless mission – a fool’s errand – the idea that ICT would revolutionize schooling was, at worst, sloppy thinking and, at best, ardent wishfulness."
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Two professors with special physical challenges are playing a critical role in UNCG's online degree completion program.
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"COPPA can be a sensitive topic with many educators because it seems to be the third wheel standing in the way of the instructional technology conversation between educators and their school district's legal and IT departments."
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Tips and tools to help you be a more efficient online instructor while creating better learning experience for students.
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Study reveals that the frequency of sending text messages and using Facebook while doing schoolwork were negatively related to overall GPA. However, frequency of using email while doing schoolwork was positively related to GPA.
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"Student achievement and educational attainment have stagnated in the U.S., and a host of our leading economic competitors are now out-educating us. In a knowledge economy, such stagnation is a slow-acting recipe for obsolescence."
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