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Tablets can be used for much more than playing games and reading the latest e-books. Learn more about how tablets are also changing the face of education.
Fantastic, up-to-date infographic here! I’m hoping there is an iPad mini, as I’d like to get one for the student in my house–my son!
–techcommgeekmom
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. . .the competency-based movement is finally gaining momentum based on recent announcements. But what actually is “competency-based education” and why has it taken so long to expand beyond Western Governors University?
In this day and age, competency-based education is going to be really important, especially as we try to grow our economy and provide the right skills for students. It’s something to start truly considering…
–techcommgeekmom
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Last week, I described mobile devices as multitasking tools that enable users to seamlessly collaborate and communicate with others, to consume and create content, and to research and manage information.These learning activities help the new generation of connected learners make sense of the world around them as they navigate and apply knowledge on the go. As mobile devices provide a personal interactive experience with content in a new and appropriate context of use, it is important to consider the following matters when designing anytime, anywhere learning experiences.
Follow Mayra on Twitter at @MayraAixaVillar–she has a lot of good things to say, and it helps that she’s both smart and sweet as well! Mi amiga!
–techcommgeekmom
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In May of 2012 a “fabrication workshop and design incubator” called TechShop was opened in Detroit in partnership with Ford Global Technologies. The facility charges a membership fee to allow average people access to high end industrial machines where they can invent their own products. Ford itself encourages the use of the machines by their employees to design innovations for Ford vehicles. This workshop and several others are part of a DIY-inspired “Maker Movement” that has people engaged in fixing, tinkering, and producing things outside of the mainstream, established production channels.
DIY education is a growing movement. It’s not just the idea of homeschooling, but rather breaking from the standardizations that currently stand in order to better serve personal needs and objectives going forward. e-Learning and m-Learning are going to be–if they aren’t already–a big part of this movement as time progresses.
–techcommgeekmom
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Learn more about how social media is enabling more people to push for social change.
Nice infographic! Thanks to Muhammad Saleem.
–techcommgeekmom
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