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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Google Masters for Kids of All Ages. What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools?

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A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Create Your First Online Course

EdTech4Beginners

The correct definition of the concept is necessary to set the right learning tools: today an e-course is not only a slideshow in PowerPoint but also drag-and-drop simulators, interactive tasks, games, tests, and much more. This way is also more competitive as users rate you and people can see similar courses next to yours.

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Turning your face-to-face class into an online course [Part 3]

Neo LMS

There is a small issue we need to briefly look at: Definitions. A good LMS will accept videos, pictures, Office and Google docs. As you know, students all learn in different ways and at different rates; learning paths mean that you can design different routes for students, yet still get them all to the same point of mastery.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. Public education is, by its very definition, political. And so is Bezos’ $2 billion investment in Montessori-inspired preschools.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. Its definition of what it means to be “rural” is beyond that which most Americans will ever come to know. Subscribe today! They can’t access online encyclopedias.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

What Students Say And because of the experience students had during COVID-19 lockdowns, when most teaching was online, many students feel they learned how to teach themselves by just Googling. That definitely wasn’t the case for the professors I met while at Texas State, though. I wanted to talk to a few students myself.

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Allsides: Curating diverse perspectives (or looking at news from most sides now)

NeverEndingSearch

The see news ratings for each story and can filter for perspective and trace a story back in time. The AllSides Bias Rating , reflects. New source bias ratings. That produces a fair, verifiable bias rating. I see rich opportunities for librarian-led conversations about these ratings. Do you agree with the rating?

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