The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

To learn more about the use of companion tools like the Logitech Crayon, Rugged Combo 3 Touch and C930e Webcam, sign up for Logitech’s Classroom of the Now webinar on June 23 at 10 a.m. As always, remember that apps and tools are excellent compliments to an excellent teacher. PT or June 29 at 11:30 a.m. Why is this device helpful?

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 14, 2020

The course goes through a variety of topics and how to utilize G Suite for Education tools in each area. Google has been announcing a lot of things to support educators, students and families with remote learning. The newest is a Distance Learning specific resource and course for Educators. Easy to understand and apply.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

I have been with the district for 20 years, though I didn’t become the superintendent until April 2020. I gave our technology department marching orders to get every student and every teacher on a Chromebook and trained in the Google Suite within two weeks. Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. PBLWorks has created a resource site to provide teachers with ideas, examples, and free tools to facilitate PBL remotely. Free Distance Learning Resources.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. The Speak Up data revealed an increase in students’ access to mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Renaissance displayed its literacy solutions.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The post Google Accessibility Tools to Reach ALL Learners – SULS049 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I’m going to give you tips, tricks, and resources to help use Google accessibility tools to reach all learners. Google tools are loaded with features that help us differentiate and support ALL learners in our classrooms.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

During TCEA 2020, educators, decision-makers, and stakeholders came together to articulate their visions for the future of education. Related content: Can’t-miss sessions at TCEA 2020. Related content: Can’t-miss sessions at TCEA 2020. Here’s a sampling of some of our favorite products from TCEA 2020.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JUNE 23, 2021

As I look back on my first days as an edtech cheerleader (as a classroom teacher, and then as a digital learning coach), one of my biggest regrets was being too caught up in sharing the latest fancy, flashy tool. To paraphrase Precious Boyle from the title of her excellent October 2020 article , don't mistake engagement for learning.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Feedback from my students revealed that they had already consumed hours of 360° views while gaming on their home computers and were well versed in digital travel because teachers frequently used video tours as engagement tools during the pandemic. To overcome my discouragement, I recalled that in 2020, Natale et al.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are handshakes and fist bumps replaced by conversations at a distance of six feet or more or through tools like FaceTime. The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We You really can’t go wrong here.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 13, 2020

Distance learning is a crazy time for many, but we can celebrate the way various companies are offering very cool and engaging tools, resources, and activities for free. PBLWorks has created a resource site to provide teachers with ideas, examples, and free tools to facilitate PBL remotely. Free Distance Learning Resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dig into teaching practices with Google Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Google Classroom is a tool that can help build relationships between students and teachers. The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Popular educational apps. Accelerated?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

Tools to prepare for school closures –suggested by Common Sense. Date: March 17th, 2020. Date: March 20th, 2020. To meet the suddenness of the Corona-19 pandemic, some schools are lending out their extra Chromebooks and purchasing more with newly-available Federal and State funds.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. While the iPad cost anywhere from $300 – $400, Chromebooks were sold from $199. Indeed, $2.3

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. Flash-forward to March of 2020. In the past, new technology tools were introduced in a computer lab or during a computer science course that some students enrolled in. AI is different. If so, why?

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 12, 2020

The article also explains how to leverage other GSuite tools for remote learning. Distance Learning Strategies [EDU on Air- March 5, 2020] is a set of Google Slides outlining Distance Learning Strategies with G Suite and Chromebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

My goal for this year is to see how I’ll make [digital tools] effective in the classroom.”. Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2020

5, 2020, World Read Aloud Day celebrates the pure joy of oral reading with kids of all ages. Whether you have iPads, Macs, PCs, or Chromebooks, teach students as young as kindergarten how to access the book curation tool (such as iBooks, RAZKids, Kindle, or another) to find stories to read with each other. Owl Eyes (classics).

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Hapara

APRIL 7, 2022

It was pre-pandemic and her district was using a different classroom management tool. The culture that came from using the other monitoring tool was very whack-a-mole, which I didn’t care for, especially coming from a kindergarten background where it’s so vital to be involved with your students actively,“ she says.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2021

TeacherMade PRO includes dozens of powerful upgrades, including time-saving features for Teachers, integrations with popular learning management systems, and tools for multimedia enhancement of PDFs, such as video, audio, and hyperlinks. TeacherMade’s free digital worksheet creation software was the breakout hit of the 2020-21 school year.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Yes, every iPad and Chromebook needs a nice rugged case. What can I take back to school and share about the future of the educational classroom in 2020? Every educator was excited to see a wide array of applications, features, tools, gizmo's, and gadgets for every classroom of every size.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Yes, every iPad and Chromebook needs a nice rugged case. What can I take back to school and share about the future of the educational classroom in 2020? Every educator was excited to see a wide array of applications, features, tools, gizmo's, and gadgets for every classroom of every size. Microsoft Education. Listenwise.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

With nearly 7,000 students and 700 teachers, Liverpool had never tackled remote learning before March 23, 2020. But Director of Technology, Dan Farsaci, says they were equipped with the right tools for a successful start. Students received a Chromebook, a charger and, if necessary, a Wi-Fi hotspot donated by a local provider. “We,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

What I do worry about is running out of books so this year, I spent the last few months stalking efriends to find out what they recommend to kickstart the 2020-21 school year. Why did I pick this book: I’m a longtime teacher who’s sold on technology as a tool but I don’t want it to be the goal. And it paid off.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

At the time, Google had been selling an enterprise version of its work productivity tools, and Casap got the university to sign up. And as Chromebooks entered the market in 2011, Casap and his colleagues pitched the then-new devices to school technology leaders, many of whom had been buying Apple iPads which were in vogue at the time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Mike Daugherty, Director of Technology and Information Systems at Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and the 2020 ISTE Technology Coordinator of the Year, has a few ideas about how to address this concern. I did a Google search for Chromebook management programs, and GoGuardian immediately surfaced.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In some cases, demand far outstripped supply, leading to backlogs of requests for laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other school-issued devices. The demand has slowed a bit this year and most hardware purchases made in 2020 will last for the next few years.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

In mid-March, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will call for the closing of schools due to COVID. We had given our students individual Chromebooks, so they had access to Schoology assignments, Google Classroom and various announcements made by the district through email and social media. In a few weeks, the bottom is going to fall out.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 29, 2020

Online Teaching Best Practices, Tips, and Tools. The Chromebook Infused Classroom. 13 Tools to Record Audio on Chromebooks and Other Devices. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Lessons Learned From Remote Learning. What Students Have to Say About Remote Learning [interviews with a 3rd and 12th grader].

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 6, 2020

IPEVO P2V CAMERA (2009) __ OVERVIEW Fast forward to mid-2020, and IPEVO has just released their 8th gen model, the newly updated IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera. IPEVO offers printed step-by-step guides for using the IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB in USB mode with some of the most popular online collaboration tools. GHz or higher OS X 10.10

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here are 5 easy ways to get started on setting intentional coaching goals in 2020. When I first started as an instructional coach, I wanted my campuses to be seamlessly 1:1 and for all teachers to be using the Chromebooks the district had provided for their classrooms. Your role is often fluid, unique and not easily quantifiable.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 8, 2020

I don’t endorse a lot of products, but Texthelp produces some of the best accessibility tools and they work seamlessly with my favorite Google tools. The folks over at Texthelp have created some amazing accessibility tools to support all students, including digital tools to support literacy, struggling readers, and ELL.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In fact, according to Computer Science Education , by 2020 , there will be 1.4 In my case, I used Ctrl+Alt+S to invoke the Windows Snipping Tool. There are hundreds of them for PCs , Macs , and Chromebooks. million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants. Click in ‘shortcut’. Push the key combination you want to use.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of creative budgeting or planning for technology in regular operating budgets is hard to assess because public education does not have a transparent way for reporting or comparing technology spending across districts on tools such as Ed Data.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

These tools can amplify feelings of loneliness and serve as a platform for cyberbullying. Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. Even more concerning: many tools may simply be gathering (digital) dust.

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