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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

The best digital tools for the classroom are the ones that provide an easy interface, facilitate collaborations, simplify communication between students and teachers, offer quick analytics for administrators, and are cost-efficient. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. Moreover, the platform is free for teachers.

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When Learning Goes Nomadic

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The edtech seminar I'm teaching this semester recently explored the post-desktop world, and to get students thinking about the differences, I began with a quick exercise, asking them to rearrange the classroom into old-school rows.

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Twitter in the classroom

Learning with 'e's

Large plenaries are presented with guest speakers in lecture theatres, and then they are split into 6 or 7 smaller seminar groups where discussion, debate, and other forms of discursive learning are supported. The backchannel is an ideal medium for them to engage with people outside the classroom too. Unported License.

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It is Not a Project to Get Students Talking: Two Tools

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

The chatroom or backchannel can be accessed on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, and puts students'' texting talents to work. In structured Socratic Seminars , students in the outer circle communicate via TodaysMeet, while those in the inner circle speak aloud. Oh, what I want to learn to do! References.

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Technologically Blind or Technologically Conscious

Fractus Learning

How would you answer the question “ do you think that those students who do not have access to technology have as good a chance of getting a good education as those who do have access to technology? ” They don’t need to carry an encyclopedia because they have immediate access to one at any given moment.

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8 Reasons to Create Interactive Textbooks for Engaging K-12 Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

The main concern while publishing content is the quality of the final output which will be accessed by students. Once published, the etextbooks should be easily accessible by the users. DRM protection ensures that only people with permissions can access the content. Be it an online video or a live seminar.

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When Teaching Large Classes, Professors Shouldn’t Try To Put On a Show

Edsurge

Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, has taught so many large classes that she jokes she has trouble readjusting to a small seminar room. Students can get it on any kind of device– phone, tablet, laptop. It feels like a little mini classroom. Do you kind of not agree with that? So, it's a group session?

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