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Kahn Academy
If you have heard the backstory of the Kahn Academy, Kahn discovered the same thing Bloom noted several decades ago. The best instruction is provided by a tutor. Mastery learning originated about the same time (Bloom’s Group Based Mastery, Keller’s … Continue reading
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Curriki Studio
I am spending the day watching the ND Governor’s Technology Innovation Summit. One of the guests was Scott McNealy. McNealy (sun Microsystems) is one of the wealthy tech entrepreneurs turning his attention to education. One of his first ventures was … Continue reading
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Perusall for social reading
Perusall offers an online environment (hosted by the company or through an LMS) that allows the annotation of pdfs and Word documents. The pdfs are either content the instructor has the rights to use in a course or digital textbooks … Continue reading
Google docs transcription
Kathy Schrock mentioned an interesting Google docs hack she (and I) had not encountered previously. She had discovered that you can open a Google doc, turn on transcription, and then play audio that will be transcribed to the doc. I … Continue reading
Remote, online, distance – which is it?
This EdSurge article attempted to make a distinction to help educators consider pandemic education. The article intended to draw some distinctions but was confusing because it began by describing our recent experiences with remote learning which the post described as … Continue reading
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Copyright – classroom and online
From time to time, it is important for educators to review the expectations for honoring copyright. Educators and their students use content prepared by others as part of the work of education and copyright expectations apply to this material. Here … Continue reading