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The benefits of using a web filter for digital learning

Hapara

Amy Traynor, the Educational Technology Specialist at the Briarwood School, explained that teachers may come across other websites that are distracting. Jean O’Brien, the Technology Integration Specialist at Tarrytown Schools in New York said that their school district tried two web filters before Hāpara Filter. Want to learn more?

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Best practices for managing web filtering in a digital learning environment

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. So how do you manage web filtering so that it protects students but doesn’t restrict learning? What do schools use to filter websites?

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Strong Lifecycle Management Plans Can Support Successful One-to-One Programs in K–12

EdTech Magazine

For the past 20 years, DeKalb County School District has hosted a technology fair. They have access to computing devices, and they have access to digital learning resources,” she says. They have access to computing devices, and they have access to digital learning resources,” she says.

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Level Up Your Virtual Teaching with Screencasting Tools!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Discover more ways to integrate technology effectively by taking one of my fully accredited online courses or get one of my books ! Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration. Check out this awesome graphic by Tony Vincent to learn more!

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Screencast Tools to Demonstrate Student Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

With this kind of technology students can explain their own thinking when solving word problems, create a video tutorial demonstrating how to use an app or web tool, label and explain a diagram, or create instructional videos. Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration.

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Why connected laptops are a pathway to digital liberation

eSchool News

Key points: Digital classrooms–and their remote students–are here to stay School facilities face unprecedented demand for broadband across education sites The introduction of always-connected PCs and Chromebooks continues to be the catalyst for digitally liberating many students. Deliver increased performance.

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#iste17 trends: Google, Touch Screen Chromebooks and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Today Kasey Bell @shakeuplearning sits down to talk about the hot trends at ISTE 2017 including lots of Google stuff, new AR news, Google Keep, touch Screen Chromebooks, and more news. In today’s show, Kasey Bell discusses the hot trends at ISTE 2017: Touch screen ChromeBooks. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Google classroom.