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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. It’s not like you can just drop the tool in and the flowers will bloom and the birds will chirp.”

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?Learning Equality Scores $5M From Google To Bring Edtech Offline

Edsurge

It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. We know digital tools and online materials have added a lot of value to students who have access to them.

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It started with a push for desktop computers which soon expanded to iPads and the wonderful apps (like art programs) that made tablets essential tools. Why lug around half a dozen heavy books in a backpack that too often is left behind on a sports field or at the library? Print books are often easier to share.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

A big shout out to EdTech Magazine for recognizing this blog on its 2017 Honor Roll. Finding the right tool to match the verb can take a bit of research. It is also important to gauge students’ age and ability while aligning it with the district AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) and the each tool’s Terms of Use. Quick Notes.

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3D Printing For Learning

techlearning

The Horizon Report: 2017 K–12 Edition, the goal of which is to identify technology that’s likely to impact teaching, learning, and creativity, identifies makerspaces as having “potential relevance to teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K–12 education” within the next year. At first, students were at a loss for what to do with it.

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5 Ways to Flip Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. Friday, September 22, 2017. I have to do the in-flip, which means I do the videos sometimes in class, and use tools like “EdPuzzle” to kind of insert that formative assessment and that sort of thing. Record your own voice over. Enhanced Transcript. Vicki: Yes!

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

TOOLS THEY USE GREENE COUNTY SCHOOLS, TN ? The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. TOOLS THEY USE COXSACKIE-ATHENS ? G-Suite tools ? Khan Academy ? TI-NSpire CAS BLENDING THROUGH COLLABORATION PATCH has a lending library of tech awaiting learners’ eager hands.