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The Innovative Educator: Five Things Students Want Their Teachers to Know about Online Learning
Kids love having the opportunity to learn online but it’s not merely the medium or the technology that students enjoy. At the recent iNacol Virtual Schools Symposium I listened to high school students who have experience learning this way as well as teachers who have experience with these students, share some advice for making this type of learning even better.
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Infographic: The History of Online Education | Getting Smart
OnlineSchools.com recently published an infographic on “The history of online education” that shows the ways in which distance learning has developed since the early 1700s to now. It looks at the ways that students and teachers are using education technology to learn from anywhere. The infographic projects that in the future online learning enrollments among post-secondary education will increase from 30 percent this year to 37 perent in 2015.
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Schmap Releases Tool to Break Down the Demographics of Your Twitter Followers
Whether you have millions or hundreds of followers, now you can obtain a full analysis that allows you to find out who they really are. Schmap, the social website that introduced the first real-time city guides covering more than 400 million locations worldwide, this morning launched “Know Your Twitter Followers,” an automated freemium service that allows any individual, company or brand immediate access to acquire a demographic analysis of their Twitter followers.
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Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | MindShift
Open education sites exemplify how technology is democratizing education. These sites allow both learners and teachers to create their own curriculum, whether it’s used in or out of the classroom.
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iOS Basics: Navigate on your iPhone or iPad | Macworld
Although Apple has designed the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to be simple to learn, sometimes you may want a primer on the basics. Here’s a breakdown of the major multitouch gestures, navigation, Home screen tips and tricks, and multitasking features you’ll need to master your iOS device.
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Brian @ CLRN - Educational resources in the flat world
Response to “Online schools a virtual waste for students” »
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Find the passwords for nearby WiFi hotspots, with 4sqwifi
You know how it is – you’re desperate to get online in an unfamiliar place but with only secured WiFi hotspots around you. You don’t have their passwords, so what can you do?
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Get the Most out of Online Quizzes « classroom2point0
If you grew up in a school system that used Scantrons ad nauseum, you are not alone. Unfortunately, life is not multiple choice; it’s a story problem. If we want to prepare our students for the demands of college and the real world, we cannot afford to whittle away their knowledge to a, b, c, d, or e: all of the above.
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Framework - Authentic Task Design
10 design elements are suggested for the design of authentic tasks in web-based learning environments:
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Facebook by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
You likely know that Facebook is the world’s largest social network with more than 800 million users, but did you know that more than 250 million photos are uploaded every single day? Or that the average American spends seven hours and 46 minutes browsing her friends’ profiles per month?
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Engaging Math: Ice Melt Problem | Connect!
This math problem is a simple one: before class starts the teacher puts a handful of ice in a funnel dripping into a graduated cylinder. The cylinders are on tables before the students enter. A simple question is on the board:
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