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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

Summer PD 2015 just ended. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. They are life long learners. They were problem solvers.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. See examples at varying grade levels of successful PBL projects aligned to Common Core and ISTE NET Standards and for various subject areas.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Gamification. Common Core) for individual students. TeachThought is developing a mobile learning framework and definition that will be released in early 2015. I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces; I couldn’t miss because there was no such thing as a miss.”

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. ” “ The Educational Potential of Pokémon Go.” It’s weaponized already, of course.

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