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15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

Use a Google Doc as a Syllabus (Secondary). You could even gamify this idea and give digital badges for accomplishing a task or challenge. Create a demo student account to demonstrate Google Classroom to your students. Package your Digital Assignments. For my students, it involved reading and enrichment activities.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

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