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Crowdsourcing Education Reform via #edchat

Note: This post was originally posted on Edutopia-Igniting Innovation in Education through Collaboration

#edchat's "small sparks"

Keith Sawyer, author of the book…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on July 13, 2010 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Leveraging The “Networked” Teacher: The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative

The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative seeks to leverage the new reality of education.

Individual educators used to operate under this model. Alec Couros of Open Thinking blog created this graphic.

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Added by Rob Jacobs on June 9, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Profile The "Groundswell" of Collaboration in Professional Learning Communities

In the book Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies, authors Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff explain what they call the “groundswell” and how it in transforming our world.

According to the authors, the…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on May 11, 2009 at 8:31pm — No Comments

YouTube =Google? If Anything That Can Be Video Will Be Video.

Anything that can be a video will be a video, or so says this post from the site ReadWriteWeb

Here is an excerpt from their post Is YouTube the Next Google?

Generation YouTube

"Imagine a whole generation of kids growing up and learning about the…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on December 3, 2008 at 7:33pm — No Comments

The New Media Litearacies

Discovered this video from my PLN. It was created by the The New Media Literacies Project.

According to their site..."Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media…

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Added by Rob Jacobs on November 24, 2008 at 8:20pm — No Comments