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Universal Design for Learning: What is it? Why use?

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By presenting information in various ways, educators can ensure that all students access content. 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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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25 Websites for Lesson Planning

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Nearpod –access lessons from mobile device or desktop. TEDEd- -great for flipped classrooms. 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. Educreations. GoConQR –create and manage planners.

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8 Digital tools for engaging classroom presentations

Neo LMS

Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. Teachers and students alike can select from many templates and access over 40 million Creative Commons-licensed images with automatic attributions upon import, promoting digital citizenship.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Instead, people use a digital calendar that automatically syncs life events across all of their digital devices. Classroom activities should be handled the same. Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders.

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3 Apps That Energize Learning

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make access from digital devices easy and intuitive. Record lessons that students can access anytime, anywhere. Provide video evidence of class activities in a flipped classroom. The teachers I know want to be more organized, work more efficiently, use available tools to complete tasks faster, and prioritize needs.

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10 ways to foster deeper learning in the classroom with technology

Hapara

The possibilities are endless when it comes to having students create digital content to demonstrate their understanding. For example, if an English class is reading a novel using “literature circles,” learners could read the assigned text, and then a teacher could assign a shared Google Doc that allows all group members collaborative access.

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In Love with Space? Here are Great Websites to Take You There

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It can be included in a list of websites that students independently access during flipped classroom preparation for a space unit. Use this simulation as part of either a space science unit or to encourage critical thinking and problem solving among students, possibly within an exercise on gamifying classroom lessons.