Month: February 2014

Ed Tech Is Poised to Go Mainstream – Forbes

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Great that Forbes is writing about the knowledge shift occurring in society but “Digital Natives”? Really? The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation forecasts that 50% of high school classes will be online by 2019. For some, this…

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How Teachers Can Use Digital Technologies to Motivate Students and Encourage Learning By Failing

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab The promise of blended learning — to guide students through an infinite range of content and learning experiences — is amazing, but the digital content can’t do it alone. Blended-learning approaches…

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Digital school strategies

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See on Scoop.it – EdTech 2.0 What are the biggest tech-related challenges facing schools? It’s about encouraging reluctant teachers to adopt, embed and apply new technology effectively within authentic teaching and learning contexts. We also need better in-service…

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What is digital learning?

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency What excites you about technology in education? It’s the huge potential and great possibilities to move learning beyond the traditional walls of the classroom. Learning has always had a large informal component…

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11 Underlying Assumptions Of Digital Literacy

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy–or rather to understand them both in their own native contexts–it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy….

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Google Debuts Education Tool Oppia for Teaching Others

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin See on thenextweb.com

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab daily edventures | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology See on dailyedventures.com

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How to start a TED-Ed Club

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab A step-by-step guide for starting a TED-Ed Club at your local school or community organization.  See on blog.ed.ted.com

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5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab “I’m not very tech savvy” is the response I usually hear from teachers that struggle with technology. Whether it’s attaching a document to an email or creating a PowerPoint, some teachers…

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Online Learning as a Possible Cost Saving Measure: What Canadian Researchers Tell Us | Contact North

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab As colleges and universities face increasing challenges around funding and cost-effectiveness, online learning is often brought forward as a possible cost saving measure. At the same time, it is seen as…

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