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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

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If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Wesley has served as an organizer for the annual K-12 Online Conference since it began in 2006.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

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For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute. I find this helpful for uploading to Google Classroom or Airdropping the file to my Mac for display to the whole class.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. And K-12 isn’t just one market if you’re a content company; you need to hone your expertise in particular subject areas, such as math, English or STEM. billion in 2010.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

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Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. This multi-part series will run over the next several Mondays.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

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Wikispaces is also the backbone of my global collaborative projects since 2006, with MAD about Mattering as the most recent example. It also links with other tools we use like Trello, Google Docs, Dropbox, and more. Google Drive (Collaborative Writing). They usually open a Google Doc and add collaborators and they are off to go.

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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. We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top. We now work with the Panorama survey tool as it is much better than Google Survey.

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