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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Early results from pilots Google conducted of its Rolling Study Halls program , which supplies school buses in North Carolina and South Carolina with mobile Wi-Fi routers and an onboard educator to help with assignments, suggest providing internet access during the school commute can result in reading and math proficiency and digital fluency gains.

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Virtual Reality Apps for Education

Educational Technology Guy

Google Cardboard and Google Expeditions are the two most popular, but here are some more great VR apps for education: (these are links to the Google Play store, but they all have iOS versions also) Cardboard (free) Cardboard puts virtual reality on your smartphone. Tour Guide: Visit Versailles with a local guide. •

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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Google Expeditions has hundreds of experiences designed for kids of all ages. It starts at home: the first teachers a child has are their parents.

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Tapping into the potential of AI smart speakers to boost parental engagement

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. Smartphones are sometimes smarter than their owners and the idea of people going to Mars moved away from sci-fi novels and into the realm of things that might happen in the not so distant future.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. A lot of what I see is for secondary school. Are they in a Google doc or Google slide? 00:02:11:22 – 00:02:34:20 Debbie Tannenbaum It's become a really big passion to me. Or where are those?

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Teaching AP Students Remotely: What Does It Look Like?

EdTechTeacher

On any given day students can participate in these mobile friendly classes covering AP topics such as: Tonicization through Secondary Dominant Chords, Voting Rights and Models of Voting Behavior, and Introduction to Acids and Bases. The live stream of learning is divided into 10 different 45 minutes periods starting at 9 a.m.

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Online collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, empower students to collaborate on projects and share resources in real time. Let’s examine one K-12 educational technology tool: Google Classroom. Coding platforms, such as Scratch and Code.org, promote digital literacy and computational thinking.