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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. Most researchers agree effective keyboarding isn’t instinctual and training should begin before bad habits are created. In the absence of training, they will learn, but likely wrong. by fourth grade: A trained fourth grader can write and type at the same speed.

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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

In the early 80s there was much hand-wringing among teachers and education policy-makers regarding how to teach computer literacy given that many teachers did not having sufficient training, and “micro-computers” were prohibitively expensive. Nonetheless, computer literacy was swiftly placed on the majority of school curricula.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

His message was that classroom rituals are a training ground for power dynamics students face out in the real world. A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. How does that work? It's a great one.

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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

eSchool News

” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003. “There are no easy answers to complex challenges, but we can shift the paradigm and move beyond the status quo. “Innovation should spark success. This press release originally appeared online.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

Edsurge

The schools have “guides,” not teachers, and there are specialized training programs to become one.) No wonder, then, that “Montessori education is often seen as niche and elitist,” says Joel Mendes, executive director of Prepared Montessorian, a program that provides training to teachers and parents in Montessori methods.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world? Of course, the cost would be a top priority. Drawbacks of VR Learning.

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