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"Silicon Valley is one of the wealthiest areas on the planet, a place where technology and innovation are abundant. The availability of technology is a widely assumed given for people there, with seemingly everyone tethered to their smartphones and nearly everything is a click away ..." 
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"The time has come for K-12 educators to embrace the digital age and, along with it, OERs ..."
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"The smartphone game shows how a new technology can break through from niche toy for early adopters to go mainstream ..."
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"Infographic charting the use of technology in law firms including the top 10 innovations, hurdles to adoption, IT priorities for 2016 and more ..."
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"Issues of definition, copyright, and ease of use are stalling faculty's widespread adoption ..."
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October 11, 2015 8:44 PM
Re-scooped from Leona Ungerer. Meris Stansbury (2015) reports in this brief article on the reasons faculty don't use OER. Many claim they are unaware of what OER are, and if they do know what OER are, they don't have time or the resources to find them.
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"At the University of Central Florida, instructional designers offer faculty ongoing mobile technology training courses ..."
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"Social media has given educators the opportunity for self-directed, collaborative and connected learning. Network literacy , according to Eric Hellweg, requires a basic understanding of network ..."
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'Kirsten Wright, an educational technology teacher at Desert Sands Unified School District (CA), talks about how making the move to 1-to-1 has transformed not only teaching and learning, but the physical design of her districts' classrooms ..."
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"If schools hope to prepare students for an unknown future, they must make technology easy to use -- through hardware, software, mindset, and practice ..."
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"It has been nearly three years since the FCC and Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out the Digital Textbook Playbook and challenged schools to go digital within five years. It’s safe to say schools are not there yet. While going digital looks certain, arrival in two years looks doubtful ..."
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"More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains offline. Without removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little will change—and more than 4 billion people may be left behind ..." ©
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"While technology continues to evolve, the "Concerns Based Adoption Model" remains as relevant today as it was in 1987 ..."
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"Changes in policy, perception and technology are propelling Indiana, Michigan, Utah, Washington and other states to build digital libraries for open educational resources...."
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"A four-year university-wide study of students' e-textbook practices found that e-textbook use has increased, particularly among younger students ..."
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"Since the 1950s, virtual reality (VR) has been hovering on the periphery of technology without achieving accepted mainstream application or commercial ..."
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"Japan has a reputation for being obsessed by robots and electronic gadgets, but the technological reality in many offices is strikingly different ..."
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There has always been a chasm between what educational researchers do in their labs and what educational practitioners do in their classrooms. There is no well-defined path for taking an idea from research and putting it into practice ..."
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"In the fall of 2010, just a few months after I became dean of Harvard Business School, I hosted a meeting where colleagues could ask me questions about my plans for the institution—and one asked a particularly provocative one ..."
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"...Like any learning, transitioning from traditional to digital needs a base of knowledge, a curiosity for discovery, and the flexibility to try new things. To take the first steps toward good digital teaching, one must understand ..."
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"Education has evolved from a pen, paper and textbook affair to using iPads, online resources and even mobile apps in the classroom. If you are aiming for a career in education, being able to utilize technology effectively is a crucial skill that you will have to be able to demonstrate ..."
Hannah Weaver's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 3:34 PM
This is a good article explaining how technology has come into classrooms. I am very open to this idea and may consider it in my dream school, after reading this article.
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"Teaching online can be demanding. Faculty teaching online often spend their breaks between semesters refining and rethinking their classes ..."
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"From virtual reality headsets to mobile gaming, some technologies were well ahead of the curve. Rhiannon Williams rounds up 10 notable examples ..."
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"Well, this has turned into a rather enjoyable conversation. To recap what has unfolded so far: It began with Jose Ferreira inviting me to appear on a panel at the Knewton Symposium, on the panel, I ..."
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