September 20, 2014
Categories: Africa
Tags: age groups, demographics, youth bulge
Does this tell us where the next revolution will take place? Source: www.globalpost.com These #maps #show where the world’s #youngest and #oldest #people live #haiti #education See on Scoop.it – Teaching and testing
September 12, 2014
Categories: Resources
Tags: materials for lessons, research
Begin digging into curated open datasets around a variety of topics including Sports, Culture, International Development, Health, Education, and your own Community. Source: tuvalabs.com #haiti #education #teachers @haitinoworg Begin digging into curated open datasets around a variety of topics including Sports, Culture, International Development, Health, Education, and your own Community.
September 12, 2014
Categories: Resources, Technology
Tags: edtech, teachers, technical terms
If you’ve ever needed to become a connected educator by implementing a 1:1 solution using BYOD while flipping your PBL-based classroom, then you probably know the key edtech terms that exist today. But if most of that first sentence was complete gibberish, then you’re in luck. Also, you’re not alone! There is a lot …
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September 12, 2014
Categories: Strategies, Teachers, Teachers Evaluation
Tags: Common Core, experimentation
Given the nature of the job, school superintendents are master jugglers. Even so, implementing new teacher evaluation systems has been a massive challenge for many of them, because of the demands such a system places on principals, the strain it exerts on labor relations, the inherent difficulty of creating a new vocabulary to describe effective …
September 12, 2014
Categories: E-learning, Education, Resources, Technology
Tags: MOOC
Three years ago this week, Sebastian Thrun recorded his Stanford class on Artificial Intelligence, released it online to a staggering 180,000 students, and started a “revolution in higher education.” Soon after, Coursera, Udacity, and others promised free access to valuable content, supposedly delivering a disruptive solution that would solve massive student debt and a struggling economy. …