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The system, which Education Dive previewed earlier this year, offers students virtual tours of landmarks in foreign countries and more.

Pretty cool program! This is a great way to teach social studies!!

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This amazing!

36 Ways To Use Wearable Technology In The Classroom We’re not quite at the stage of all being cyborgs, but the wearable computing market is growing,…

Pretty cool article!!

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Blended Learning Prepares Students for the 21st Century

Schools using blended learning curriculums are on the right track. Better using technology allows teachers to explore their full potential.

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ELearning and MLearning Differences

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Gamification And Game Based Learning: Yes, They Are Different!

How To Implement Gamification & Game Based Learning To Corporate Training. Know The Difference Between Gamification & Game Based Learning.

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Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.

Interesting talk about success. Is grit all you really need to make it?

I know this seems like a stretch but I feel that all students have been in a place where they wanted to give up. So this is a great reminder to stick with it.

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

This is his first ted talk and he discusses how children in India were able to learn how to operate a PC that was in a small box.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Great video on child driven education.

In this interview, I talk to Randi about what we can learn from successful education models abroad, the increasing importance of teachers and how the US..

Can US teachers compete on a Global scale?

As the world grows smaller and smaller due to advances in technology, is the US prepared for a global set of of standards and curriculum?

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30 Facts About Gamification That Teachers Can't Overlook

30 can’t-miss facts about the power of gamification.

While teachers tend to avoid competition in the classroom, games provide the kind of competition with self and with peers that encourages learning, because the competition is about the game–not about learning.“

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Create an Active and Collaborative Learning Environment for your Course

Creating a successful course also needs an active and collaborative learning audience. Learning alone is not fun. Read our post to learn how to do it.

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Making Subjects Magical: Augmented Reality Providing Unforgettable Education

When implemented the new XploreAR app in school, the students got really excited about it, they found..

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I find this topic really cool!

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'A Cat is Not a Dog' and Other Advice for Blended Learning Teachers

Editors’ Note: We asked San Jose high school sophomore Audrey Mullen to share how she and her peers actually use various edtech tools and how they really feel about their teachers’ blended learning approaches. The result is a straight-from-the-source playbook that no blend ed teacher–or entrepreneu

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What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?

Homework can be an effective way of making the information stick so long the amount doesn’t surpass the point of diminishing returns. Uncover some common myths

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Very interesting article on homework, students’ family income and coursework. Should non AP and Honors classes provide their students with more homework. Is the amount of homework a student receives correlated to their academic success?

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elearn Magazine: Building a Blended Learning Classroom that Works

“What happens when you mix technology with classroom instruction, robust data, a desire to keep students engaged, and personalize learning? Voilà, blended learning.”

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“... I've found two things to be true. The first is blended learning can significantly improve student learning and growth; the second is these results can only be achieved if effective use and understanding of high-quality data is part of the blended learning model that is implemented.“

Great quote from the above article. I feel the second statement is the key to any great learning program.

I also love the 3 P’s and D for Student Centered Learning!

What are the best apps for teachers? We asked TED-Ed Innovative Educators and the TED-Ed community. Below, 25 awesome apps recommended for teachers, by teachers. For teaching students how to presen...

This link mentions 25 educational apps that help students and teachers communicate, collobarate, create and learn with the help of technology.

Also moodle is one of the apps mentioned! Go Moodle!

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