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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? Where did I turn? Classroom Use.

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How to Use Alexa Devices in the Classroom

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Friedlander talks about Amazon Alexa on Episode 447 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Brian S. I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have seen the power it has to help children be more accepting of people different from themselves.

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What Educators Need to Know Right Now About Digital Citizenship

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Join me on Tuesday, March 26 at 4 pm ET for a free webinar, 5 Ways to Help Teachers Progress in Their Use of Technology. She serves on the Trust & Safety advisory boards of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Yubo. Come back to this blog post for the second part! Today’s show is sponsored by NetRef. Register here.]

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

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Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We took our school from a physical school on a Friday to a distance learning campus by Monday. I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years.

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Tributes Pour in for Sir Ken Robinson, a ‘Source of Insight, Inspiration and Joy for Millions’

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After a distinguished career in education spanning more than three decades, Robinson died on August 21, according to a brief note on his Twitter page. We’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make,” he said in his 2006 TED Talk , which has been watched more than 85 million times online.

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National Bullying Prevention Month–October

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In October 2006, thirteen-year-old Megan Meier hung herself in her bedroom closet after suffering months of cyberbullying. Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.