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9 Mistakes Teachers Make Using Tech in the Classroom

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Share the link to an online newsletter through your class Twitter stream. Sending kids to the computer lab to do work rather than using the class computer or the library computers? Pull out your smartphone and open the ‘clock’ app which usually includes a timer and a stop watch. I know–this sounds crazy.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Here are the digital tools that will replace the paper-intensive tasks you’re accustomed to: Digital Note-taking Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. quick methods like texting are fine.

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How to Keep Kids Safe

The CoolCatTeacher

(and prevent problems online) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this episode, Shannon Mclintock -Miller and I discuss current best practices about digital citizenship and online safety for kids. Why every school should include digital citizenship in their curriculum.

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Vector Solutions Adds Silent Panic Alarm Feature to its LiveSafe Tip Reporting and Safety Communications Platform for Schools

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Students can quickly report safety concerns directly through their Vector LiveSafe smartphone app – anything from bullying, to concerns about a friend or classmate’s mental health, to an emergency situation. Follow us on Twitter @VS_K12 and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VectorSolutionsK12. About Vector Solutions.

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

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Once in place, here are the digital tools that will replace tasks that precipitate daily learning: Digital Note-taking. Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. quick methods like texting are fine.

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How to go Paperless in Your Classroom

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Once this framework is in place, here are the digital tools that will replace the tasks required for daily learning: Digital Note-taking. Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. And then charge.

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Digital Literacy–What is it?

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Philosophically, these are all good definitions, but after fifteen years teaching K-8 technology and grad school, I know ‘digital literacy’ is much more complicated than a couple of sentences, especially when we’re talking about students baptized in iPads and smartphones. Digital databases. Digital citizenship.