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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

Perhaps reading posts on social media and clicking on article links in Google searches are useful types of reading too. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions.

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September 11th, 19 years later - Never Forget - join together in unity.

Educational Technology Guy

It is a day we honor and remember the thousands of lives lost, the survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the attacks on 9-11-2001. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. It is a day of remembrance, a day of reflection and a day to be proud. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School. 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller. Ditch that Textbook by Matt Miller. No purchase necessary.

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Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game

MindShift

The students had come of age in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which shocked most Americans’ geopolitical sensibilities awake. As the game caught on, Nelson began automating it, moving from a simple Google spreadsheet to a full-blown news tracker keyed to mentions in the New York Times.

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A Message from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum - watch ceremony live online today

Educational Technology Guy

On September 11, 2001, and in the days that followed, our nation came together in a spirit of unity and resolve as we struggled, with profound shock and overwhelming grief, to comprehend the single largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DIRECTIONS: The Google Slide presentation will be made available for viewing after the presentation. We will also discuss the uses of Google Hangouts, Google Forms for gathering information, and wordpress for establishing a web presence for a project. DIRECTIONS: Participants will be encouraged to connect via the Google Hangout.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Karen has presented at conferences around the country about teaching students to navigate social media and working with teachers to develop digital projects that embrace new media literacies. BIO : Jaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. She is currently the Director of Academic Technology for St.