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10 Top Tips and Click-throughs in 2020

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Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2020: Top 10 Tech Tips. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2020. Tech Tip #118–Top 10 iPad Shortkeys. Tech Tip #106–11 Great Typing Timesavers on iPads. Between these ten, they had over 183,000 visitors during the year. Tech Tip #34: My Program Froze.

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2020 Holiday Gifts for Teachers

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If you know your way around a computer, iPad, or Chromebook, offer to help your favorite teacher with either training, debugging, or problem-solving. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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An Update on Digital Storytelling

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An Exercise in Digital Storytelling. To engage my 11th-grade English students during the 2020–21 school year, I created a digital storytelling unit. Students were able to explore various frames of reference, identify a personal story to share using digital media, and experience empathy throughout the process. Comic Book!

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Device Rollout in the Age of COVID-19

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Device rollout—when students in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive their initiative-provided iPads or Chromebooks—is an exciting time in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, especially for schools new to the program. But rollout looks a bit different in 2020.

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Beyond Screen Time: Better Questions for Children and Technology in 2020

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The release of the iPad in the following year put young children in control of their screen experience by simply clicking, tapping and swiping. In 2009, the iPhone was two years old, and we were beginning to explore the possibilities of the touch screen and video chat as engaging interfaces for young children.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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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. Then there was the iPad. Appealing to all ages for all occasions, the iPad topped the market in the following years after its release. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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10 Projects to Kickstart Hour of Code

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In fact, according to Computer Science Education , by 2020 , there will be 1.4 IPads call these hotkeys. If you have IPads, try Stick Nodes or Scribble Movie. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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