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Grad students should identify and adapt to new employment trends (opinion)

Grad students should identify and adapt to new employment trends (opinion) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Sonali Majumdar highlights why grad students and postdocs should identify emerging employment trends, develop durable skills and ultimately adapt a growth mind-set for professional success ..."

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OER may be free, but you still need to invest to use them: Part I

OER may be free, but you still need to invest to use them: Part I | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"This is Part I of two blogposts on Open Education Resources. Calls for access and equity underpin the OER movement, but it's yet to be seen if the potential..."

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Five key elements of an edtech portfolio for educators

Five key elements of an edtech portfolio for educators | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Five key elements of an EdTech portfolio for educators to help teachers distinguish themselves at their schools and when looking for a new job ..."

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Good information that I'll be needing in a few months!
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Why aren’t schools using the apps they pay for? – Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter

Why aren’t schools using the apps they pay for? – Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With thousands of education apps available today, it can seem like students’ success is in the palm of their hands. But easy to forget is that technology is not in itself a solution. For it to work as intended, it must be paired with other critical elements: professional development for teachers, thoughtful implementation and consistent engagement ..."

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Fifteen professional development skills for modern teachers

Fifteen professional development skills for modern teachers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"21st-century professional development skills that today’s teachers should possess ..."

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Nine essential #EdTech ideas to share with your team

Nine essential #EdTech ideas to share with your team | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Technology is playing a bigger role in classrooms and schools in this country and around the world. Here are a few thoughts to kee

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To raise teaching standards we must first improve the use of technology in the classroom 

To raise teaching standards we must first improve the use of technology in the classroom  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We are living in an increasingly digital world and this is a trend that is set to continue ..."

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The top eight professional reads for educators 2016 (plus more)

The top eight professional reads for educators 2016 (plus more) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The Top 8 Professional Reads for Educators (plus more) as voted by you for your Summer reading list! After sending out a survey over the space of 2 weeks on Twitter and through other Social Media …"

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Digital content drives learning, so long as schools are prepared

Digital content drives learning, so long as schools are prepared | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"When schools put time and effort into device selection, professional development and infrastructure management, students can experience the full benefits of digital textbooks ..."

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Thirty EdTech conferences worth checking out - Daily Genius

Thirty EdTech conferences worth checking out - Daily Genius | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"It's 2016. Professional Development opportunities abound, but which are worth your time? Here are 28 EdTech conferences worth checking out ..."

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What does the future hold for K-12 ed tech?

What does the future hold for K-12 ed tech? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Education Dive's survey of over 150 administrators and teachers reveals challenges, priorities, and successes ..."

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What does innovation in education look like? A new program to find out

What does innovation in education look like? A new program to find out | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The TED-Ed Innovative Educator program brings together 28 educators from 11 countries for a year of professional development ..."

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Students' mobile learning practices in higher education: A multi-year study (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu

Students' mobile learning practices in higher education: A multi-year study (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

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Eric Rodriguez's curator insight, September 24, 2015 9:33 AM

Wow! The number of users who own an iPhone is more than I expected. Almost 70% use it for social networking and only 30% of professors use mobile phones in their teachings. If more professors implement the use of the phone would student's follow suit and use it during class for school work?

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A review of online learning in 2021 | Tony Bates

A review of online learning in 2021 | Tony Bates | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"However, it also identified a new challenge: how to scale up instructional design and media support. When only 10 per cent of courses were online, one-on-one support for faculty was feasible ..."

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Why university lecturers need a teaching certificate

Why university lecturers need a teaching certificate | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We need to fix our universities’ broken professional development model. But calls for more teaching qualifications in higher education in response ..."

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Four ideas to advance teaching in 2019

Four ideas to advance teaching in 2019 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Improving the world through disruptive innovation ..."

  1. Put technology in service of teaching
  2. Prioritize student-teacher relationships
  3. Decouple teaching and grading
  4. Offer more PD for purposeful practice
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Resources for learning about educational technology | Knowledge Quest 

Resources for learning about educational technology | Knowledge Quest  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I read a quote today that made me think about my summer professional development. Nataf Emmanuel wrote, “Education used to be simple: there was a blackboard, a teacher, and desks in a classroom. Today, a student can practice English online ..."

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Professors are hired to teach, but few are ever taught how

Professors are hired to teach, but few are ever taught how | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If 60 full-time faculty members each retained one additional student per course who would have otherwise dropped out, the college could stand to gain an additional $1.6 million per year in revenue ..."

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Three tips for finding the best teacher-helpful edtech

Three tips for finding the best teacher-helpful edtech | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How to find technology that helps teachers make the most effective use of their time ..."

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Technology in the classroom: About image copyrights

Technology in the classroom: About image copyrights | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Five topics to be taught with regards to online image copyrights ..."

Emily Leffler's curator insight, September 19, 2016 5:10 PM

One of the biggest challenges in education is copyright laws and plagiarism. Students and teachers alike need to understand online integrity and the proper and improper ways for using created media in their presentations and projects. 

yuliya gashin's curator insight, January 21, 2017 2:12 AM

This article explains 5 different types of an image copyright. It is certain that people, especially educators must follow copyright law, but I figured there was a lot of considerations that a regular person might always fail to obey without even knowing it.

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Preparing teachers for 21st-Century learning

Preparing teachers for 21st-Century learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How are teachers being developed to use educational technology in a way that best supports a student’s ability to learn? ..."

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Seven characteristics of great professional development -

Seven characteristics of great professional development - | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"As the end of the school year draws to a close, administrators start pulling together their PD plans for the summer in preparation for the next year. Meanwhile, teachers sit anxiously by ..."

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The changing role of the teacher: Five ways to adapt - InformED

The changing role of the teacher: Five ways to adapt - InformED | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"It's time to redefine what it means to teach. Students already learn much differently than they did a decade ago, but educators have been slow to adapt ..."

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So you want to drive instruction with digital badges? Start with the teachers (EdSurge News)

So you want to drive instruction with digital badges? Start with the teachers (EdSurge News) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"You can’t have a conversation about the future of public education these days without some mention of digital learning. And when you talk about digital learning, the discussion often turns to badging. The concept is simple: individuals earn badges for demonstrating the acquisition of key knowledge ..."

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Community college professors often fail at teaching - Washington Post

Community college professors often fail at teaching - Washington Post | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The best book ever written about two-year colleges shows that doctoral pride often cripples learning ..."

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