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Must Have Productivity Apps for College Students - Living Between the Lines When the professor was writing code too fast for me to keep up, all I had to do was snap a picture on my phone for reference...
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2015: The Good, the Bad... and the Potential | Edutopia Teacherpreneurs are craftspersons. 1. Music and the arts 2. Social media 3. Making 4. Computer science 5. Game-based learning 6. Interests and...
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Check Yourself: Why Self-Reflecting on Privilege Matters | Edutopia As of 2014, the majority of students in K-12 public schools in the U.S. are children of color, while 80 percent of teachers are...
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57 Small Changes You Can Easily Make to Improve Your Life 1. Assume People Have Good Intentions 2. Avoid Using Negative Words 3. Avoid Spending Time with Stressed-Out People 4. Begin Each Day with...
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Dewey (1938) claimed the purpose of education is to prepare youth for citizenship in our democracy. Fast forward those convictions seventy some years and the purpose of education becomes to prepare...
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Bernie and Rita Turner founded Walden in order to provide a graduate education to people not economically able to seek doctoral degrees at traditional brick and mortar institutions requiring a year of...
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Big Cable Owns Internet Access. Here’s How to Change That. — Backchannel — Medium We are amplifying and entrenching existing inequality by not taking on this country’s internet access problem. fiber...
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How do online educators maximize the educational experience occurring at the intersection of the social presence, the cognitive presence, and their teaching presence? How do online educators engage...
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To be viable, all education platforms must evolve to meet the needs of the times. This is no less true of distance education.Distance education will meet the needs of tomorrow's learners, some of whom...
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Easy Mexican Hot Chocolate Recipe - Allrecipes.com Easy Mexican Hot Chocolate From coffee to cocoa, Dr. Oz shares benefits of his five favorite winter drinks | Examiner.com Chai latte contains...
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technorati tags: Sankar collaboration TEDTalk Collaboration is the result of the people and machines working in tandem to create a product, which would not be possible had they worked separately or in...
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My Tweetwheel circa 2008Some of my networks Chris Lehman, principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, wrote about a post about the strength of a school system. I commented,The...
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ATLANTA, GA — MAD-learn by Crescerance, Choose2Matter, and award-winning global collaborative teaching and learning pioneer Vicki Davis announce the new “MAD about Mattering” global collaborative app...
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The second annual Student Technology Conference is a week from tomorrow! This is a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, will be held...
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People You May Know | LinkedIn Senior Manager, Hardware Development at Oracle Dean of Students at Gibraltar Area Schools Chief Operating Officer of College Ease Inc. How to Win 2016 with Calendars,...
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Four learning styles correspond with four ways to take in information. These learning styles are visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. Visual learners prefer reading and writing in order to...
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Clay Shirky (2005) claims two hundred years of chaos followed the invention of the printing press. During this time people were trying to figure out how this new technology would affect the ability to...
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The 7 Devices of Transformation in Education @coolcatteacher Device of Change #1: Innovation is Done by Innovative People. Device of Change #2: Never Accept Wasted Time. Device of Change #3: Empowered...
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