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How can higher education technology leaders and their teams help students not only succeed but thrive? Via Peter Mellow, Yashy Tohsaku, juandoming 
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Technology supports both synchronous and asynchronous learning, which opens up flexibility and choice of when to learn. Audio podcasts allow learners to listen to recordings wherever they choose to, and many do this as they commute to or from work. Webinar technologies have enabled group verbal conversations to take place online, along with chat functions where users can type short messages to each other. Videos can provide helpful ways to learn visually and at your own pace with the ability to rewind and replay. Indeed through YouTube videos I learned how to mend my washing machine! As a result, there are now a multitude of online learning opportunities available, many of which are free. Choose from informal or formal, short or extended courses, and learn with others or independently. Develop or learn new skills, take up a new hobby or engage in a full online course. Via John Evans
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As the new school year begins, children throughout the country are turning up to class smartphones in hand, iPads in backpacks. - New Zealand Herald Via Peter Mellow, Lon Woodbury
Lon Woodbury's curator insight,
January 30, 2016 5:14 PM
The experience in a primitive environment without technology or therapy is a powerful experience - perhaps the most powerful impact of a sophisticated wilderness therapy program. -Lon |
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"The push toward technology-focused education overlooks the students who lack the resources needed to complete their assignments." Via Steven Engravalle
Steven Engravalle's curator insight,
November 1, 2018 10:08 AM
Despite the seemingly ever-growing embrace of digital learning in schools, access to the necessary devices remains unequal, with a new report from the Pew Research Center finding that 15 percent of U.S. households with school-age children lack high-speed internet at home. |
