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9 Tips Every Teacher should Know about Google Scholar

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Scholar is definitely a great academic search engine for research students and academics. Besides searching for academic literature such as journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books, reports.etc, Google Scholar also enables you to create your personal library where you can save and organize your materials.

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Teach Students to Think Through Problems — Not Google Them

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I call this the “Google Search Curse.” I call this the “Google Search Curse,” which is when you want to know the answer to something, and rather than thinking through to the answer, you go into Google search, type in your question, and there are a thousand people who have delivered answers. And it’s incremental.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011. It now contains more than 15.7

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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Started in 2008, Edmodo boasted tens of millions of users. It was originally considered a competitor to Schoology and Google Classroom, and it was popular with teachers. Those with data on Edmodo should remove it by the end of the day September 22nd if they don’t want to lose it, officials stated. That’s just a few weeks away.

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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside 'Walled Gardens'?

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It turns out he co-taught the very first one, back in 2008, with George Siemens, who is now the executive director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab at the University of Texas, Arlington. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.

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Learning with Google: Announcements for 2021

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Earlier today, Google held their global online livestream " Learning with Google." Over the course of ninety minutes, they rolled out a roadmap of upcoming changes and upgrades to the Google platform happening between now and the end of the year. Hard to believe Docs and Drive started back in 2008. And it hasn't yet.at

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Instructor Spotlight: Meet Catherine Atkinson!

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She has taught in a 1:1 classroom since 2008 where her students used MacBooks, iPads, and Chromebooks to collaboratively and creatively demonstrate their learning. Catherine taught history/social science and ELA to English language, gifted, and special education students for 27 years at the middle school level.

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