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10 Myths about Teaching with Tech

Ask a Tech Teacher

When these “digital natives” show up in my classroom, they have played with iPads and their parents’ smartphones enough to know how to swipe, tap, squeeze, and shake, but they know none of the nuances required to morph the device from a toy to a productivity tool. I agree about the familiarity. Technology is less work.

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It’s Still About 1:1 #CETPA2016

There is no box

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. Real time classroom assessment with data capture is hard to do without 1:1. “What do your classrooms look like?

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It’s Still About 1:1 #CETPA2016

There is no box

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. Real time classroom assessment with data capture is hard to do without 1:1. “What do your classrooms look like?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

Edsurge

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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How This Famed Chinese Venture Capitalist Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching

Edsurge

He then went on to work at Apple, Microsoft and Google, where he served as president of Google China. He started a venture capital firm in 2009 based in Beijing called Sinoventures. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. If you could wave a magic wand, what would be the ideal classroom? Everything?

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An Illinois district proved gifted programs can be racially diverse

The Hechinger Report

Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States. What happened between 2009 and 2018? He grew up in a Spanish-speaking home, and “was in a special-ed classroom because I didn’t speak English,” he said. cheese” presented Google Slides on echolocation. “I