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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

The illegitimate, fictional organizations and profiles creating this content were never outed or recognized as such by anyone, neither Facebook who let them spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the ads nor the people who reshared their content and never stopped to ask whose content they were sharing figured out these were false.

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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

Edsurge

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”.

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How Teachers Can Just Work 40 Hours a Week?

The CoolCatTeacher

When the year is up, they will never be charged again and will have continued access to the Facebook group and all club materials. We’ll first start talking about target number of hours to work for the 2016-2017 school year in October. There is a group for elementary (K-5) and one for secondary. How does this program work?

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3 ways to join the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club at no cost to you

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Access to elementary and secondary private Facebook groups where I–and hundreds of other teachers—share ideas and answer questions. You keep your access to the entire program AND the Facebook group even after your year is up, so you can revisit the resources at any time and continue to get support from your cohort. Even better?

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Oklahoma’s Edmond Public Schools Chooses Discovery Education to Support New Digital Conversion Strategy

techlearning

In the Fall of 2017, Edmond Public Schools began implementing their new Digital Conversion Strategy district wide. The incorporation of Discovery Education’s Math Techbook into EPS secondary instruction will help accelerate these developments by connecting students to math through real-world problems worth solving in dynamic digital settings.

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Hope is Not a Strategy

The Principal of Change

I had a chance to play at the post-secondary level, but an injury to my knee and a lack of passion for the game when compared to basketball, led me to some different choices. My eighty-five-year-old grandfather just recently got on Facebook. Despite being new to the technology, he picked up the nuances of Facebook instantly.