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Ed Tech Crew - 20 views
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Hosted by Darrel Branson (The ICT Guy) and Tony Richards from itmadesimple.com. We discuss all things digital in education - technologies, issues, great websites, web 2.0 and much, much more!
50 Intelligent Video Sites - 72 views
Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | High School Courses Developed by MIT... - 0 views
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High School Courses Developed by MIT
Look, Ma, no blackboard! - Haaretz - Israel News - 11 views
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whole software system developed for schools
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development in Israel with a couple of trials in the US
Time To Know - The Digital Teaching Platform with Core Curriculum - 22 views
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company developing solution for K-12
Learning with 'e's: The VLE sucks - 0 views
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insitutional VLEs do indeed tend to suck the lifeblood out of institutions, giving little back
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Students who are disengaged or bored with homogenous, bland content that sits in the 'Learning Management System'. Disenchanted staff who pay lip service to a lumbering system that very few people really want to use, because either it is too time consuming to use effectively, too difficult to navigate or simply unfit for purpose. The institution suffers too of course, because huge maintenance and upgrade fees and user contracts have to be forked out each year
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Does lifelong learning need to be as closely managed as it actually is in universities?
http://www2.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/digital_literacy.pdf - 0 views
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This handbook is aimed at educational practitioners and school leaders in both primary and secondary schools who are interested in creative and critical uses of technology in the classroom ... This handbook aims to introduce educational practitioners to the concepts and contexts of digital literacy and to support them in developing their own practice aimed at fostering the components of digital literacy in classroom subject teaching and in real school settings.
Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education - 0 views
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In the Automating stage, new tools are used to reinforce existing practices and processes. We see this stamped all over the educational space. Smartboard use that reinforces existing frontal teaching methods. Digital content replacing paper distribution. Technology that speeds the efficiency of existing standardized testing. The essence and character of traditional educational practices however hasn't changed. It's still "business as usual" in most American schools.
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"Informating" as Professor Zuboff calls it - involves the re-imagination of processes using the new technologies. Instead of focusing on making existing processes more efficient, we start to look at entirely new methods and goals. We are in the infancy of that stage in education. In the Informating phase, educators reevaluate goals, visions and processes:
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Professional development becomes far more valuable when it searches beyond the simple nuts and bolts of technical use and instead encourages teachers to disrupt the traditional flow of education - to dabble, experiment and re-imagine how that technology can be used to create new educational horizons.
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You hear it repeatedly. You can't throw technology into schools without training and support for teachers. If you purchased a truckload of iPads for your school then you better have a plan for developing teachers that are skilled in using them ... but what does it really mean to be "skilled .. What constitutes effective professional development
digital-boomtown-online-learning-is-on-the-rise from good.is - StumbleUpon - 0 views
Home - LRE - 0 views
schooX - Online Courses and Certificates - 0 views
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This could evolve from annotated bookmarks to a webquest to a mentored self-paced course (community of practice) MOOC. I like the 4 role typology model.
A Personal Cyberinfrastructure - 18 views
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"So, how might colleges and universities shape curricula to support and inspire the imaginations that students need? Here's one idea. Suppose that when students matriculate, they are assigned their own web servers-not 1GB folders in the institution's web space but honest-to-goodness virtualized web servers of the kind available for $7.99 a month from a variety of hosting services" - should be a no-brainer for web development or any creative courses
Clever and Leading Online Learning Providers Declare End to Usernames and Passwords in ... - 0 views
Face-to-Face Online Classroom Revolutionizing Physical Classroom - 0 views
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