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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard.

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

Vizor

Retrieved from Kelly Stephens Twitter Feed. Make the link to submit a ticket EASILY accessible from the website. Create a knowledge base of documents so students and parents can access them after school hours. Replacement devices. If a Chromebook breaks, the school needs to be ready to supply a replacement device.

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Racism, Consumerism, and a Conversation With My Son About the Future of Diversity

Edsurge

But what if Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok were present in those times? For one, we must accept the fact that the majority of us are ignorant of the facts associated with this conversation, and effectively determine a means of which to raise the bar of our knowledge base. Followed by: “What happened?”

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Next week, my tenth graders will have to invent a new way to access the Internet. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. We’ve been doing this project eight years now.

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The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn #iste2015

There is no box

But I went to school BT (Before Twitter) and BGHO (Before Google Hangouts). Enter Twitter and the rise of social media. Networking tools like twitter and Google Hangouts (GHO) now allow the formation of groups of peers and experts to assemble around themes, topics and interests. Silent classrooms. Individual worksheets.

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Hyperconnected

Learning with 'e's

million search enquiries on Google, nearly 2 million photos created on Snapchat , over 4 million hours of video watched on the video sharing channel YouTube (and 400 hours uploaded), nearly half a million tweets sent on Twitter, and more than 16 million text messages sent. The trick is knowing where to click.'

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Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots

Hack Education

The Twitter bot was built to “learn” by parroting the words and phrases from the other Twitter users that interacted with it, and – because, you know, Twitter – those users quickly realized that they could teach Tay to say some really horrible things. Templated knowledge. Templated writing.