Let’s talk about your edtech career. What is your current role? How long have you been doing this work? What is your title?
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We’re excited to visit Denver, Colorado for the 2013 WCET Connect Annual Conference tomorrow through November 15. WCET focuses on various education topics. This year’s themes are: competency based learning, open online courses and mobile learning.
The newer versions of Google Chrome desktop browser and Chrome for Android include support for WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications), an emerging web standard that enables developers to add real-time audio and video capabilities to their web applications without the need for plug-ins or proprietary
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Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Senior Fellow, KDK_DigitalEssays, KPK Scholarly Activity Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, M.S.L.
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The theory of Multiple Intelligences was originally proposed by Howard Gardner some 30 years ago and is gaining increasing recognition and impact.
COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research) runs one of my favourite annual conferences.
A grudge match is unfolding at the intersection of instruction and technology. It’s the Educators vs. the Entrepreneurs and everyone has to pick a side. But, as I might say to my first graders, that is just silly.
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Seated oh so uncomfortably in a rickety, wooden chair and behind a weathered, hand-me-down teacher’s desk littered with white stacks of ungraded essays, I stretched my aching neck and scanned my classroom of thirty-four students. High school teenagers in a Language Arts class.
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Is there a way to motivate and improve student participation without grading it? I raise the question because I think grading contributions gets students talking for points, not talking to make points.
Coursera today announced that 13 new institutions have joined its ranks, bringing the education startup’s total number of partners offering courses on its platform into the triple digits: 107.
New Images of Education 