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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

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Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. What’s Out There Now. Just a dream? Not really. They should reach out to the principal and even the PTA to get the process started.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Hiring outside and field sales reps is another geographic consideration when selling to specific states. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching

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As the teacher, you’re used to being the control valve for content, assessment, feedback, and reporting. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code. You probe, prompt, front-load, and assess. Cool, huh? Anybody but you.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Denying that to students in the age of Uber, Amazon, Google and more seems sort of an awkward and wrong-headed thing to do. Data entry. Discipline.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does.

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