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12 Trends Transforming the Post-Sec Landscape - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - Highe... - 0 views
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1.Rapid growth in for-profit post-secondary
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2.Expanded online learning offerings
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3.Massively open online courses (MOOC)
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Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. There are no registrations or fees required to take our courses, and you will earn a certificate upon completion of each course. Because we are not accredited, you will not earn a college degree or diploma; however, our team of experienced college professors has designed each course so you will be able to achieve the same learning objectives as students enrolled in traditional colleges.
Math Web Apps | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views
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i-Ready.com from Curriculum Associates, is a great K-8 adaptive assessment with engaging content.
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Dreambox.com is a K-3 game-based adaptive math product.
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ST Math from MIND Research Institute is a visual game-based approach used with great results in over 1,200 schools; ST Math is now available on iPad. They are launching their Seattle Math Initiative this Wednesday
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Review: JFF's Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age | Getting Smart - 0 views
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The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media to provide a diverse range of students with multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media for the teacher, providing a rich set of tools and resources to elevate and differentiate teaching. In that rich environment, the teacher can be both a content provider and the classroom’s most experienced and savvy teacher/learner, a model of the kind of expert learner students can emulate.
Blended Learning: New Solution to an Old Problem | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views
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We can provide every student in America access to great teachers, but that won’t happen in a traditional classroom (as Public Impact has so clearly spelled out)—it will happen when we leverage talent with technology and blend the best of online and onsite learning.
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To power these new models that combine local and national resources, Digital Learning Now calls for educational funding that is weighted, portable, and performance-based.
The Evolution of Digital Textbooks - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views
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"It wasn't the music business that was dying," he said. "It was the CD business." Similarly, the textbook isn't necessarily going away, said Bridges, but the form is definitely changing.
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"We are already producing online materials that school districts can't even use fully because of the challenges they have [with professional development and infrastructure,]" said McFall. But while schools may not quite be ready to make the transition to fully digital content, the revenue from digital resources grows each year, and currently makes up more than a third of Pearson's sales, said McFall.
To support ed tech, schools need to rethink budgets, infrastructure | eSchool News - 0 views
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Two-thirds of students want to use technology more often in their classrooms, and 76 percent of IT staff said faculty members show increasing interest in implementing educational technology.
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But 87 percent of IT professionals said they would need to upgrade their infrastructure before they can incorporate much more technology in their classrooms, and almost nine in 10 faculty members anticipate problems moving away from the traditional lecture model.
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“Schools need to have resources equal or better than what [students] have at home,” Washington said.
Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views
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Ensuring that teachers are properly trained to use technology resources is fast becoming as big of a budgetary concern as was acquiring the technology in the first place.
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Often overlooked however, is that not all teachers are immediately comfortable transitioning to a wired classroom.
Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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I started off by selecting a few myself (e.g., technology and privacy, technology and civic discourse, immigration), and showing students the kinds of resources they might be able to find. Then, for the latter part of the course, they chose the issues, found sources, and shared them in the class Zotero library. Working in teams or as individuals (depending on which section they were in), they were then responsible for running a class session and assigning readings for that session.
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