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How K–12 Schools Can Get Started with Blended Learning

EdTech Magazine

Last school year, our school started a one-to-one Chromebook initiative for sixth-grade students. That meant our incoming seventh-grade students would not only have Chromebooks, but they would know how to use them. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools are rolling out Chromebooks in their area ! eli.zimmerman_9856.

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Each classroom is furnished with tables on wheels and stackable chairs that allow the rooms to be easily reconfigured as activities change. And with fast Wi-Fi, students can access G Suite for Education and other cloud-based educational apps on their Chromebooks. Enable Different Styles of Learning with Flexible Classrooms .

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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

edWeb.net

The Speak Up data revealed an increase in students’ access to mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks. The largest increases seen were where schools and districts invested in Chromebooks as their students’ home devices. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.

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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

This turns everyday assignments into interactive lessons with students able to interact with the edtech tool directly without clicking a link to go to the apps site. Google Classroom. Why consider Google Classroom? Google has prided itself on its simplicity and Google Classroom is no different. Example ways to use Canvas.

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Educator Perspectives: Leading in a Pandemic

MIND Research Institute

Our 3rd- through 6th-grade school was already 1:1, and all of our teachers had Chromebooks, so we were mostly prepared as far as devices. We got them all iPads simply because Chromebooks are hard to get right now. Google Classroom has been pretty important. How to Bring Edtech into a District Successfully.

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#FETC 2015 Recap

The Electric Educator

FETC is one of the largest EdTech conferences in the country with over 10,000 attendees from around the world. Swivl has great application for the flipped classroom and for anyone who creates a lot of training videos and podcasts. FETC is a HUGE conference with lots of big names and big ideas.

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Hyperdocs: How to’s and Tips for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

Sometimes in the Hyperdoc then, you can do like a flipped classroom type of thing, where they can access the Hyperdoc. When I used to teach it, I used to almost do the same thing I do in a Hyperdoc in a lesson. I would give them some background information. They can reflect on it.

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