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Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools

EdTech Magazine

Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Mon, 04/16/2018 - 12:41. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. She is a Certified Google Educator as well as a Microsoft Innovative Educator.

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Student-Driven Hyperdocs

The CoolCatTeacher

Taken from their popular ISTE 2018 session , learn about the next evolution of Hyperdocs and how they’re being used in the classroom. Kate Bradford and Brett Miller share their secrets for student-driven Hyperdocs.

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Tapping into the potential of AI smart speakers to boost parental engagement

Neo LMS

Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana or Facebook’s M are just a few of the most notable such technologies. These virtual assistants can provide instant answers to questions as simple as “How’s the weather?” She was like another person in our class.

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How can we use Minecraft Education to enhance our curricular activities?

TeacherCast

This year at ISTE , I had the opportunity to sit down with Sara Cornish and Trish Cloud from the Minecraft Education team at the Microsoft Education booth. How to setup Minecraft servers for your classroom. How to “live the history” of your lessons through Minecraft. About Microsoft Education. Topics Include.

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This District Rolled Out Minecraft and Teacher Collaboration Skyrocketed

Edsurge

When Roanoke County Public Schools gathered educators for their first training in how to teach with Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE), “you could hear the rumble in the room,” says Jeff Terry, the district’s director of technology. That was early 2018. Today, his district is among the top ten for M:EE usage worldwide.

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Books to Africa and A Personal Transformation to a Global Educator

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: January 17, 2018. So I met up with teachers through the Microsoft Educator Program. I mean, how could you even say that? They’re learning how to be global citizens. You can’t be a citizen in this world without learning how to get along with others. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 By 2018, the number of industry-recognized credentials students earned, signaling they attained specific job skills, had grown fivefold. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE.

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