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What according to you is the future of MOOCs? This question was originally answered on Quora by Deepak Mehta. 
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Pupils protest over a Paris school's plan to track them with Bluetooth devices.
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Pupil tracking in France - schools use to help with attendance, however, pupils concerned
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Is government and industry really doing enough to prepare youngsters for an increasingly-connected workplace?
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High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing -- papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
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How AI marking of essays works and it's implications
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Brainwave Headsets Are Making Their Way Into Classrooms—For Meditation and Discipline - EdSurge News
At first glance, the brochure for the Muse headset might look more like a religious leaflet than a technology instruction guide. There’s an image o
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apps with headband to monitor brain activity to try and calm students.
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High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing -- papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
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machine learning used to help mark essays
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Sense-making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross-cultural competency, computational thinking, new-media literacy, transdisciplarity, design mindset, cognitive load management, virtual collaboration. These are the 10 skills neede
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Skills for the future workforce - should schools be focusing on this.
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Ethnographer and photographer Laura de Reynal has been documenting the work of organisations, such as Mozilla and One Laptop per Child who are helping communities to get online for the first time.
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One Laptop Per Child initiative
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I have to shout certain Italian phrases over and over to get the software to recognise my answer, but at least I remember them
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A new IoT wearable device from Carnival incorporates machine learning and data analytics for cruise ship passengers. It will debut on a Princess Cruises ship in November this year.
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More technology on your cruise ship - try machine learning with wearables
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YesCourse says technology is vastly improving the online education sector, and there are several educational technology trends that can change the way of thinking in the future of online education. Via Nik Peachey
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Trends in Education for 2017
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
December 12, 2016 10:47 AM
Well I'd say slowly rather than vastly. I think they should also have included AI here. 
Phillip Morgan's curator insight,
December 13, 2016 12:51 AM
Check out the trends and predictions for educational technology of 2017.
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Courses designed around slides therefore propagate the myth that students can become skilled and knowledgeable without working through dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of problems. Via Nik Peachey
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
August 25, 2016 12:36 AM
Think it has more to do with how the slides are used than the fact that they use them.
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The most compelling topics among educators who embrace technology for learning and teaching are not about the tech at all, but about the students. And that’s a good thing.
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As MOOCs and online courses retreat into vocational education, Jonathon Keats calls for a more expansive revival of online learning
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The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education and close the digital divide. But in just a few years it was recognized as a failure, a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems.
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The $100 laptop - what went wrong?
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Apple takes aim at schools' Chromebooks in otherwise disappointing launch
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Apple - improving the IPad to address some of the current issues of using IPads in schools and to maintain their hold in the market
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Tech firms are deploying sophisticated marketing techniques to try to sell their wares into America’s schools.
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The political battle of getting laptops in US education - it is big business.
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Jeff Fenwick Phillips's curator insight,
November 13, 2017 10:01 AM
Gus Mees does a great job of curating his site about learning in the 21st century. The Professional Learner's Toolkit provides helpful information for designing an LMS for educators. 
Ivette Torres-Vera's curator insight,
March 6, 2018 6:33 AM
A great list of tools every professional can be using to keep up with their profession.
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The result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past 100 years.
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The admissions to Harvard were rescinded over Facebook posts.
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SNS used to vet student admissions at University
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Students need to learn digital skills in school to help them be more employable in the future, the education secretary says.
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The benefits of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) include increased engagement, appeal to visual learners and shared experience among students.
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Education technology is constantly evolving. There may be drawbacks to the increasing presence of technology in the classroom; however, there are lots of benefits as technology keeps students engaged in the learning process while facilitating the teacher’s role in the classroom. Via Nik Peachey
Phillip Morgan's curator insight,
December 15, 2016 12:08 AM
Check out how ed-tech is transforming modern education.
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The respondents predict that the future learning environment will break free from the classroom: 64% of respondents believe students in 2015 primarily engage with content in the classroom, but only 25% predict it will still be the leading way for learning in 2025. Alongside this, the use of remote learning technologies in teaching is expected to rise significantly: 53% of education professionals believe real-time video collaboration and mobile devices will be the primary way students engage with content by 2025. Via Nik Peachey
Carol Hancox's insight:
Useful overview of predicted trends in technology being used in education
Nik Peachey's curator insight,
September 25, 2016 5:56 AM
Interesting survey, but I can't find a link to the full report. |
