Week 1 - Additional suggested video: ["Two national leaders, who helped write the 2010 National Education Technology Plan (listed in the printed resources below), discuss the plan, personalization of learning, new curriculum standards and assessments, and their insights about directions for digital learning. Excerpted from an interview with Glenn Kleiman from EpicEd.org" from MOOC Ed]
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Interesting rubrics from K-12 for presentations, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. Areas that we need to extend in the curriculum map for technology.
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