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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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Metrics, learning taxonomies, and web literacy • literaci.es

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency What we need to help with this are metrics – discrete, measurable things (although not necessarily always numbers). These metrics will allow for the person that’s learning to teach the web to feel a sense…

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Boundless Report: Ushering in a Post-Textbook World – Boundless Blog

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab “Today, Boundless is releasing our report Ushering in a Post-Textbook World to highlight college students’ transition from traditional to digital learning resources. We surveyed nearly 650 college students about how they study,…

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11 Signs That Technology Is A Key Part Of Education – Edudemic

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab The current trend of education technology is nothing to sneeze at. There are iPads and Android devices popping up in classrooms around the world. See on www.edudemic.com

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Towards a Transformative Digital Literacies Pedagogy – Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Patric Lougheed‘s insight: There is a pedagogic chasm between monomodal literacy practices of the past, still dominating most children’s school experience, and the multimodal, dynamic publishing practices that children increasingly routinely engage…

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New to digital literacies? Read this. | Doug Belshaw’s blog

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Earlier today John Sutton asked for my “top few accessible reads overviewing digital literacies”. I was walking my son to his new school at the time, so responded that I would write a quick…

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