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8 Ways for Teachers (and Parents) to Use Twitter

Gaggle Speaks

Unless you’ve been living in a box at the bottom of the ocean since 2006, you should know about Twitter, the social network that lets users read and send “tweets” no more than 140 characters long. According to the Pew Research Center , Twitter is the fourth most popular social network used by teens.

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#4: What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

eSchool News

Popular mobile devices may come and go, but the iPad has remained a hit in the K-12 classroom. For our own work, we had our university assign 15 pre-service teacher interns to Jeanne’s elementary school, and we gave those students training in how to use iPads in the classroom and how to troubleshoot problems. Prensky, 2006).

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. Here’s how. It syncs and works on all platforms.

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Livestreaming and Podcasting in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Monte Tatom, Associate Professor of Education at Freed-Hardeman University, TN, explained in his edWebinar, “ How to Survive Live Streaming and Podcasting in Your Classes,” it’s fairly easy for teachers to start. For instance, TwitCasting lets users stream video while commenting via Twitter. Will you be collaborating with someone else?

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The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy

Edsurge

We talked about how to teach middle and high school students to sort through information, especially when all of us grown-ups have more and more trouble with it. And what is the biggest misconception that teachers have about how to make their students news literate? And yeah, I mean that's just had a ripple effect. This we know, right?

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Games and Apps for Supporting Young Students with Mathematics Difficulties

edWeb.net

According to American School Board Journal in 2006, 40% of US kindergarteners are already one to three years below grade level when they first enter public school. Follow us on Twitter @edWebnet to learn about upcoming webinars and special events! >>> VIEW THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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10Q: Helen Keegan

Learning with 'e's

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. I changed the focus from VLEs to open blogs, wikis etc.