Just read a post by Kevin Hodgson, a 6th grade teacher from Western Mass, who I have come to know over the past four years by my participation in the Connected Learning MOOC.
In his post Kevin included this Storify, showing a conversation from a Twitter Chat held in July 2016.…
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Loading...Today I attended the UIC Urban Forum: Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow and was actively Tweeting quotes until my phone battery went low. I took about 5 pages of notes, which I’ll draw from in future articles.
During the last of three panel discussions I created the sketch below.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...…You mean to tell me everything that happened was just so I would record a song for a Gregory Hines movie?
Michael McDonald, Yacht Rock (Episode 12)
If you’re affluent, we can do a much better job with you, we can make magic happen.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Daphne Koller is leaving Coursera to join Google Alphabet Calico. EdTech is not the sort of field that keeps up with comings and goings a la the Hollywood Reporter, but this movement is significant in that Koller (along with Sebastian Thrun and Andrew Ng) were the public faces of The Year of the MOOC, MOOCmania and All Things MOOC after the stratospheric success of Stanford’s Fall 2011 courses. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Below is an archive of a Connected Learning #clmoc Twitter chat that took place last week. It was created by Kevin Hodgson, a middle school teacher from Massachusetts.
You can find this and other ideas submitted by Kevin and #clmooc members in this G+ community and this Facebook community.…
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This week the 2016 version of the Connected Learning MOOC is starting. Participants are encouraged to create a visual introduction, and share it with others on various social media platforms.
I first connected with this group in 2013 and repeated in the past two years.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The first half of 2016 is behind us and the rest of the year, and our lives, is in front of us. What will we do with that time to help America and the world overcome the complex challenges we face?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I started hosting Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences in Chicago in May, 1994, as part of a strategy intended to draw area volunteer-based tutoring, mentoring and learning programs and supporters together to learn from each other and as part of a strategy to increase public awareness of tutor/mentor programs all over the Chicago region, so that more would have the talent and dollars needed to sustain their work and constantly improve.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Facebook Schools MOOCs on Engagement.” That’s a provocative title. It’s also beyond hollow.
Sure? There’s plenty of research about folly of discussion forum. Meeting at local DMV likely better for engagement. https://t.co/dU2ybk11U9
— Rolin Moe (@RMoeJo) May 24, 2016
The research at the heart of this EdSurge buzz, coming out of Penn State, looked at three Coursera MOOCs and their supplemental faculty-run Facebook pages. …
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A few years ago the Heartland Alliance provided poverty data for community areas of Chicago, which enabled me to create maps showing this information, which I have shared in this pdf presentation.
Today they released a new set of data, showing poverty levels for every Illinois House and Senate district in Illinois.…
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