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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better. You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. The skills of individuals you have been paired with.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. Some participants will have two or more screens, others may be accessing a meeting through their phone or iPad. And guess what?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. I also noticed participants using their mobile phones to capture the strategy posters and network maps.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I did it!

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.