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Beyond Finding Information

The Principal of Change

This is a short and funny video to help discussion on the type of learning we are seeing in our world today: What I stress about the video is that it is less about finding information and more about what you do with it. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

Neo LMS

These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. As such, the tools that we need to teach our students are the same ones that we use to help them to assess information and conduct their own research for assignments. . Google Reverse Image Search. How to spot fake news ?

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

Edsurge

THE BIG GUYS: Here’s news from Google, ABCMouse, and Amazon. First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.)

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6 resources to help students with information literacy

eSchool News

Information literacy skills top many lists of must-have abilities, especially in the age of fake news. Not all results in a Google search are legitimate–but how many of today’s students know this? Never have we had so much information at our fingertips.

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Colleges provide misleading information about their costs

The Hechinger Report

The federal government is pushing for more information to be made available about college costs and success rates, saying that will help students avoid incurring unmanageable debt. But much of this information comes from the institutions themselves. Misleading information is not helpful. Misleading information is not helpful.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google.

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The AppVent Calendar 2016: All The Best Educational Apps From The Past Year.

EdTech4Beginners

18) Google Docs has allowed for easy but effective collaboration. Neil Jarrett (@edtechneil) November 17, 2016. Another great presentation app which intuitively does most of the work for the students, letting them focus on their delivery and sharing of information. 14) Google Maps allows you to explore the world.