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Creative Commons licenses are free copyright licenses that creators can use to indicate how they’d like their work to be used. Creators can choose from a set of six licenses with varying permissions, from the most open license to …

These kinds of project-based courses with roots in STEM, STEAM, making, and constructivism are growing ever more popular and provide real-world application of multiple core courses.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/06/15/students-loving-innovation-courses/…

So many excellent tools are built on top of Google Maps, including Smarty Pins, Geoguessr, Geosettr, Tour Builder, and more. The website “The True Size Of” is one more great interactive map tool to help student explore and understand …

No More Lectures. Down With Lectures! Never Again Will I Lecture. And I encourage you to do the same. It took me 14 years to understand it, but now I know what student centered really means. And, I have a …

A survey finds that students want to keep learning once they are home; here’s how digital tools can help.

https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2017/02/3-ways-continue-learning-home-technology…

These Books Would Make Outstanding Additions to Every Educator’s Book Shelf.

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2016/06/20-inspiring-education-technology-books-summer-reading/…

The latest experiences in Microsoft Teams, the digital hub for teachers and students in Office 365 for Education, are designed to help schools achieve more together: by fostering deeply engaged classrooms, strengthening professional learning communities, and tailoring more effective …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a data visualization is worth at least a million. As inspiration for your own work with data, check out these 15 data visualizations that will wow you.

http://blog.udacity.com/2015/01/15-data-visualizations-will-blow-mind.html…

3D Printing is a rapidly changing technology.  So it’s no wonder that teachers are sometimes intimidated by this medium.  To help make this all a little more manageable, I’ve curated a list of 3D printing resources specifically for education.  …

We’re now in the midst of another quiet revolution: blockchain, a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records, called “blocks.”

https://hbr.org/2017/02/a-brief-history-of-blockchain…

The primary goal of this paper is to operationalize the connectivism approach into a new learning model with additions from problem-based and contextual learning that can be effectively implemented together, to improve socioeconomically diverse learners’ educational outcomes.

http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1278&context=hicss-50…

Learn how to use google docs in your classroom to make learning interesting for your students and teacher life a lot easier for you!

https://www.weareteachers.com/awesome-and-surprising-ways-you-can-use-google-docs/…

Whether it’s called an edcamp or a teachmeet, an unconference offers a fun, no-pressure, free alternative for professional development.

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/edcamp-teachmeet-unconference/…