Month: February 2014

What The Data Says About Students’ 21st Century Readiness

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab 21st century skills is a term that’s been bandied about for over a decade now.   Loosely, it refers to the creative and technology-based skills students are increasingly required to demonstrate…

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A comprehensive review of the literature on digital natives

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Patric Lougheed‘s insight: The discussion about ‘digital natives’ has gone quiet recently, and this paper might be one reason why. The authors have made a thorough review of the literature on this topic,…

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Webmaker/WebLiteracy Map

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency A map of the skills and competencies people need to read, write and participate effectively on the web. See on wiki.mozilla.org

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Out With the Degree, In With the Badge: How Badges Motivate Learning And 7 Tips To Use It Right

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab “But society as a whole will benefit enormously. The store of human capital will  be more broadly and accurately represented by credentials that are useful in a  mobile, interconnected world. Separating…

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Benefits of Tin-Can API | LearnDash

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For years, any legitimate learning management system adhered to the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (or SCORM), which is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based learning. Nerd-talk aside, it was the “stuff” that recorded when someone…

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Ready or Not, Change is Coming | Inside Higher Ed

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab While almost every other consumer facing industry has deployed advanced social networking and personalization and anticipatory analytics capabilities in the cloud—and, as important, made these accessible on any device—higher education’s technology…

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Learning Analytics – Where’s my data?

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See on Scoop.it – Moodlicious A while ago I wrote a blog about learning analytics from different perspectives giving examples of different analytics based tools that could benefit different users. Since then I’ve had discussions with numerous people, many of…

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LEGO Education Offers Building Blocks for Reading and Writing

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab The company that’s famous for its strengths in STEM learning wants to foster that same creativity in language arts.   “LEGO bricks, the colorful interlocking plastic blocks that have been a…

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How to showcase Teacher Effectiveness using digital portfolios

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Innovative educators take great pride in their work and they are determining ways to showcase this work using digital portfolios. Some are creating websites, others blogs or wikis, and some are…

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Preparing Schools for Mobile Learning Success

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab A prominent Louisiana-based IT leader breaks down what mobility means for K–12 environments.   Textbook-driven, “sage on the stage” instruction is no longer regarded as the most effective way to engage…

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