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This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets.
(Originally posted, or retweeted, on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech [2] over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).
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Using mobility as a catalyst for innovation inside higher education:
https://medium.com/technology-culture-productivity/ca7c245346fe [3]
The 6 Education Technology Trends You Should Know About:
http://www.edudemic.com/education-trends-keep-tech-front-center/ [4]
Book Excerpt: MOOCs and Other Wonders: Education and High-Tech Utopia
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page2/moocs_and_other_wonders_education_and_high-tech_utopia_20140305 [5]
Workers must improve tech knowledge or get left behind, report warns:
http://news.tes.co.uk/further-education/b/news/2014/03/03/offices-will-be-abandoned-by-2030-in-radical-change-to-working-lives-report-predicts.aspx [6]
“80% of college freshmen … learning through adaptive learning technologies” in 5 yrs
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/education-innovators-predict-rapid-scaling-improved-student-success-from-education-technology-1885056.htm [7]
Tech Education Leader Launches Game-Changing, All-Girl Summer Program in Silicon Valley:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1775041#ixzz2vHMZl5aI [8]
Transforming the Math Classroom With Flipped Instruction – Interview:
http://novemberlearning.com/transforming-math-classroom-flipped-instruction-interview-stacey-roshan/ [9]
Classrooms evolving at a high-speed pace:
http://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/4389358-friday-focus-classrooms-evolving-at-a-high-speed-pace/ [10]
White House hosts student film festival w/focus on role technology plays in their education:
http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/466224/White-House-to-host-first-student-film-festival.html?isap=1&nav=5015 [11]
Op-ed: Let’s find creative ways to say yes to technology in the classroom -
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/57608339-82/classroom-education-utah-classrooms.html.csp [12]
Check out the “encyclopedia of serious games”, validated via rubric by students, teachers:
http://gamifi-ed.wikispaces.com/Encyclopedia+of+Learning+Games [13]
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New Research Validates Effectiveness of Adaptive Learning
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About Kelly Walsh [20]
Kelly Walsh is Chief Information Officer at The College of Westchester, in White Plains, NY, where he also teaches. In 2009, Walsh founded EmergingEdTech.com. As an education and instructional technology advocate, he frequently delivers presentations on a variety of related topics at schools and conferences across the U.S. Walsh is also an author, and online educator, regularly running Flipped Class Workshops [21] online. His eBook, the Flipped Classroom Workshop-in-a-Book is available here [22]. Kelly also writes, records, and performs original music ... stop by kwalshmusic.com [23] and have a listen!
[Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own, or those of other writers, and not those of my employer. - K. Walsh]