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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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Patty Ball
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We’re all used to the term ‘21st century’ popping up in education articles, social media, and even in school staff rooms. It’s become normal to refer to yourself as a 21st century teacher, teaching in a 21st century classroom, using 21st century teaching methods that are centered on your 21st century students. While this popular …
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more of a general learning article than technology, but interesting 
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Do you want to know if your favorite sports team is popular on Twitter? Or if your kickstarter proposal is written for success? With a few simple clicks, etcML can make these kinds of classifications and many others. You can train our machine learning algorithms for your own tasks and share your classifier with others!
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![Four Ways Technology Is Changing How People Learn [Infographic] | EdTech Tools | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/AIkWSDXhy4fiYZSKwXXuwjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
eLearning professionals must understand and embrace the meaning and the implications of these changes in the learning process.
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The Learning Professionals Free Gamification eBook. Would you be interested in the Most Effective Uses of Gamification in Learning?
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Gamification is the use of game thinking and mechanics in a non-game context to inspire employees and students to get engaged in the learning process. The word itself was launched in 2002 by Nick Pelling, a British IT expert, but wasn’t widely used until 2010. Based on extended research conducted by numerous educational institutions, what makes games effective for learning is the learners’ level of activity, motivation, interactivity and engagement. This increases their fluid, as well as crystallized intelligence, something that by definition optimizes learning.
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Author-educators Marc Prensky and Will Richardson opened up this weekend's conference with some big ideas on how technology is changing learning and the many ways schools need to adapt and catch up.
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Today, most educational systems are designed to work from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Students learn facts and figures and tiny fractions of knowledge long before anyone really puts things into a larger context.
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Kent Fenwick's comment,
August 26, 2013 10:11 AM
Checkout this ebook I found about Digital Native Students
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nice breakdown of Bloom's using a paint palette
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Learn How To Make Students Better Online Researchers. Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students.
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Planning the map inside your head is the most important task of a man. Without a plan a person is just a clueless wanderer. And into the vast oceans of information a wanderer is just bound to be lost. Map in your mind, what is research all about, what are the key points and what you hope to achieve as the conclusion of this research and does your information smoothly flows proving towards your conclusion? This makes the job of searching easier.
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Should teachers have multiple Twitter accounts? If so, how many? Here's one illustration that might have you making a couple more accounts very soon.
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Our students need to be comfortable with the information technologies that are inextricably linked to the 21st century skills the work place requires, and
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young U.S. adults who say they developed 21st century skills in their last year of school are more likely to self-report higher work quality.
Lisa Williams's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 11:07 PM
21st century skills seem to get lost in the rhetoric of standardized testing, common core, benchmark testing, etc... there needs to be a shift so our students are well prepared to move forward, not just know how to "take a test".
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BloomBoard - We're building tools to help educators grow
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platform designed to support educator coaching, feedback, and development. Teachers can develop individualized learning plans based on both self-directed and recommended professional development and goals for growth.
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Why Scoopit Is Becoming An Indispensable Learning Tool
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"Students use critical thinking skills to collect, evaluate and analyze content; they may identify trends from discourse; they develop writing skills in original expression; and they interact, communicate and publish to a global audience. But perhaps more importantly, students practice digital citizenship and personal responsibility to lifelong learning."
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On the basis of the truism about life/success/genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration it is strange that so many initiatives in education – particularly those aimed at engaging youth who may be disenchanted with mainstream schooling or excluded...
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"The best time to learn something is right before you need it. This is exactly the opposite of how many training programs work." some good advice here