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How to Engage Kids in Distance Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary shares her strategies through her blog, [link] and was featured as an NYSED New York State EdTech Innovator in October 2018. Mary’s accolades include recognition as the 2018 International Society for Technology in Education’s Virtual Pioneer of the Year and a Silver Presidential Volunteer Service Award.

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How to Use Fortnite in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

He has had the opportunity to share his approach to Computer Science education at ISTE (2015, 2018), FETC (2019, 2020) BIT (2014, 2019), CONNECT (2019, 2020), Schoology NEXT (2018), as well as in interviews with major newspapers (Toronto Star, 2017).

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers. April, 2018. Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation.” January, 2020. How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?”

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How to Teach Divergent Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

Additionally, divergent thinking strategies teach students how to problem solve.[2] Play this Animal Soup Activity to teach students how to come up with many outcomes to a situation. How to Teach Divergent Thinking. February 2020. How to Teach Convergent and Divergent Thinking: Definitions, Examples, Templates and More.

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How to Protect Sensitive Data in SaaS Applications

EdTech Magazine

How to Protect Sensitive Data in SaaS Applications. Wed, 06/13/2018 - 14:32. In January 2018, a Forrester report predicted “that the SaaS market will grow to $157 billion in 2020; some providers have more than $1 billion in revenue and are growing strongly.”. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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AI: The Future of Classroom Efficiency with Mary Howard

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary won ISTE's 2018 “Virtual Pioneer of the Year” and was a New York State Teacher of the Year finalist in 2018 and 2020. In this show, she shares some ideas for streamlining and discusses the future of AI in VR and AR and how she thinks it can help us use these advanced tools even more. But I love it.

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College or Career? The answer isn’t what you’d expect for males

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At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. Department of Education.