While web conferencing is nothing new, Google+ Hangouts is taking it to another level and making it simple for people to connect, learn, share ideas, and collaborate through online resources many already use. One of the most exciting places where Hangouts is making a splash is in education, where teachers, experts, students, and creative minds are using the application to transform the learning experience of people around the globe. Read on to learn about some of the most innovative and interesting ways G+ Hangouts is already being used in education, creating a rich foundation for even more exciting applications in the future.
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Because computing is going mobile and over the next decade we’re going to see the full fury of individualized computing via handhelds come to the fore
Over the next ten years, we will see Digital Portfolios replace test scores as the #1 factor in college admissions.
he 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn’t yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job
more teachers and students will be going out into their communities to engage in experiential learning.
15. PAID/OUTSOURCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
No one knows your school as well as you. With the power of a PLN (professional learing networks) in their back pockets, teachers will rise up to replace peripatetic professional development gurus as the source of schoolwide professional development programs. This is already happening.
the shift in middle schools to a role as foundational content providers and high schools as places for specialized learning.
just let your kids do it. By the end of the decade — in the best of schools — they will be
"How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."
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