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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I cannot count the number of times I was stuck with a lesson, and another teacher teaching the same content would post a Google presentation or file for any teacher to utilize. Over the past two decades, Twitter has been a mainstay in my instruction. .

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. In addition to using Yahoo doodle, he began writing quiz software in 2006. As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding.

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How to Work LESS and Become a More Effective Teacher – SULS0137

Shake Up Learning

Dan grew up in a family of teachers and became one himself in 2006. Dan shares a unique exercise that asks you to visualize your funeral. I have been teaching Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) since 2006 and have been involved with two professional bodies for my subject area.

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Khan Academy Has Inspired Imitations Across Disciplines. MEDKSL is the Latest.

Edsurge

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. There are a growing number of students who use Google and YouTube to study instead of buying textbooks. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. And our teachers, in terms of being able to exercise that creative juice, that it lets them really explore learning in a way that gets at passions of teachers. If you want to learn more about Virtual Reality check out. Bio as submitted.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

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In T&L’s first Google+ Leader Community Hangout, we discussed how district leaders are implementing SEL initiatives. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise. We now work with the Panorama survey tool as it is much better than Google Survey. Our superintendent has been modeling it for a few years.

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An Illinois district proved gifted programs can be racially diverse

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. In the 2006-07 school year, only five of the 231 students who entered the program were Hispanic, and only two were Black.