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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Learn more at the conference master classes page. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We

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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning?

Edsurge

Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with varied ways to access content, or five levels of text was what defined a master teacher. But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning.

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Dazzling Classroom Creations with Google Draw!

EdTechTeam

The artistic flare and graphic design capacity of Google Draw are largely underrated by educators and students. Google Draw is innovative and visionary- it will take student expression and creativity to a whole new unimaginable level. Students can easily bring their novel characters to life with the help of Google Draw!

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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Summer SuperHighway: Monique Marcantonio on Digital Learning and Special Education

Education Superhighway

Our Summer SuperHighway blog series celebrates the educators that inspire us and showcases the ways that digital learning impacts their students. They use the computer a lot, [especially] programs like Google Read and Write and Speech to Text, which reads the text for them and writes it. Google classroom).