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Infographic: The Role of Pinterest Inside & Outside The Classroom

Caroline Vander Ark

Pinterest is not just about recipes, dresses and decor for your home any longer. Schools and teachers are creating authentic learning experiences that can be shared through pins. The infographic below shares how professors and teachers are encouraging student participation in several ways. What education boards are you using?
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The Viral Mentor

Adam Renfro

What drives people to create how-to, instructional, and DIY videos? Are they so passionate about their niche, their expertise, that they just have this desire to tutor others? That definitely sounds like the mentor archetype. There’s a little bit of Sal Khan in all of them and all of us.
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7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom

Guest Author

The flipped classroom uses technology to allow students more time to apply knowledge and teachers more time for hands-on education. It’s a continually changing strategy that evolves with technology.
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What Role Does Social Media Have in Education?

Guest Author

Recently, Compass Learning interviewed about 30 educators, including teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of curriculum and learning, and consultants, at the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development conference held in Dallas. We wanted to know what role—if any—social media (Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc.) plays in the classroom, in the school, or in the district. The answers were interesting.
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MasteryConnect Eases Common Core Alignment, Instruction & Tracking

Tom Vander Ark

Three years ago Doug Weber and Mick Hewitt had left a web design agency and were consulting on a social network in Japan. During that same time, Cory Reid was CEO of Instructure. Trenton Goble, a school principal, and Mick were training for a marathon and discussing Trenton’s frustrations around tracking progress of formative assessments in a mastery learning approach.
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What You’ll See More of 2013

Tom Vander Ark

A reporter asked me what to expect on the education front in 2013. To some extent you'll see an extension of the blog " 5 Megatrends That Shaped 2012 Education." But like MOOCs in 2012, there are likely to be a few breakout trends that few predicted.
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SMARTtech Top 10: Nearing the New Year

Getting Smart Staff

Can you believe it's December? Neither can we. We're on the count down to the New Year and the news is still alive and kicking with innovation. The market is on full speed ahead to 2013 with some exciting possibilities in education.

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Infographic: How Do Professors Use Social Media?

Getting Smart Staff

We all know college students are using social media. Yet, how are professors and faculty members at their universities picking up on the trend? As it turns out, nearly two-thirds of faculty are using social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, etc. - each month for personal and sometimes professional uses.