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Are Smartphones in the Classroom a Smart Move?

The CoolCatTeacher

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 Liz is currently co-chairing an auxiliary committee for the U.S.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 2013) investigated the impact of instructional adaptations on student literacy achievement. Innovative teaching, as Zhu et al (2013) confirm, “is a necessity for all teachers in order to meet the educational needs of the new generations.” Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al.,

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iPad Basic Training for Teachers

EdTechSandyK

The Background Photo Used Under a Creative Commons License In the Spring of 2013, my school district committed to issuing an iPad to every classroom teacher. Additionally, a principal at one of our elementaries had secured funding to purchase an iPad for each of his teachers. Unported License.

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Everett, S., & Carey, C. Discourse & Society, 24(2), 163–185. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 453–476. link] Buchanan, L. link] Jane Bolgatz. link] Sosa, T.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Intentional Technology Integration and Mobile Learning for the PBL Classroom by Andrew Miller Align technology integration to the essentials elements of PBL to ensure you are truly doing Project Based Learning, and not "dessert" projects.

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Learning First, Technology Second #motivationmonday

The CoolCatTeacher

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 Liz is currently co-chairing an auxiliary committee for the U.S.