Month: May 2014

Forecasting K 12 Edtech Adoption Trends (EdSurge News)

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Trends change with the season. And in education technology, no one does a more persistent job of tracking these shifting patterns than theNew Media Consortium. Last week, the Austin, TX-based organization…

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Syllabus tool integration with Moodle

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See on Scoop.it – Moodlicious We would like to introduce the Moodle developer community to an open source syllabus project at Utah State University (USU): http://salsa.usu.edu/.   Our project is focused on helping instructors create syllabi that are web…

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4 Tips for Getting to Know the Blended Instructional Model

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab The days of talking at students are finally over. I recall many a college class filled to the brim with students feverishly taking down notes, as our professor talked at us….

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Social Media Literacy: The Five Key Concepts

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Online digital technology has empowered users in ways that were unimaginable twenty years ago. Social media sites have given us the ability to reach a global audience, and have increased the average…

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A Two-Gear Construct for Envisioning Blended Learning

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Envision these cycles as gears that are interlocked and running as one to drive student achievement and student ownership of learning. Neither of these cycles requires technology, but both are greatly…

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10 Blended Learning Trends – Edudemic

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Blended learning can tick a lot of boxes for a lot of different teachers who teach in potentially quite different scenarios. From 1:1 classrooms and schools with plenty of iPads to…

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Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab At first the #edtech skepticism seemed to be formed around the utility and effectiveness of these new learning tools, the same way we might question a new assessment form or academic…

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How Do We Teach Digital Literacy to Digital Natives? – Edudemic

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Is it possible for our students to be both digital natives and digitally unaware? Young people today are instant messengers, gamers, photo sharers and supreme multitaskers. But while they use the technology…

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5 Infographics to Teach You How to Easily Create Infographics in PowerPoint [+ TEMPLATES]

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See on Scoop.it – EdTech 2.0 5 infographics and free templates that will teach you how to easily create professional-looking infographics in PowerPoint. See on blog.hubspot.com

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What’s new in Moodle 2.7: Logging – YouTube

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See on Scoop.it – Moodlicious A short overview of assignment improvements in Moodle 2.7. Learn more about other new features and improvements in Moodle 2.7 at http://docs.moodle.org/27/en… See on www.youtube.com

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