Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Students login – no email required. The website is easy to navigate and the variety of material keeps students engaged for hours (really — I’m serious). Many schools no longer teaching keyboarding, adopting the attitude that students will learn what they need to know when they need it. Cyberbullying.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Google Report 172

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

What if we asked those student learners to create informative, instructional digital content that is accessible to all? Laura Busch) How Students Apply. Being on the tech team has been like a real job; I learned how to be more responsible, what to do as a leader and how to really work together as a team.”.

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iPad Digital Citizenship Elementary Knowledge Base 60

techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

And writing students at every level who are inspired by engaging prompts and able to share, collaborate, and access support and informative texts are happier too. OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record.

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Laptops Khan Academy iPad Google 64

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If you haven’t heard of the learning platform, Tract , you are in for a treat. Tract is a new way to inspire students to become lifelong learners. It focuses on student growth rather than state or international standards (it does meet them–just don’t look for that in the detail). What is Genius Hour.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Knowledge Base Video 271

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Flipped Learning and Higher Education are rarely found together in the same sentence. Perhaps that is the case because the idea of flipped learning is attributed to two high school teachers and is a rather new concept, while stakeholders of Higher Education prefer to refer to it as “ reverse instruction ”. Pure genius.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

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Education Digital Divide Policies Common Core 218

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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