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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are. They also boost information literacies by teaching learners how to access and utilize online resources.

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Moving Schools Forward With BYOD

A Principal's Reflections

Greg also conducts workshops at K-12 schools and universities and mentors doctoral students and administrators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Students brought out a variety of devices including Blackberries, iPhones, and Smartphones to answer multiple choice questions. Check out his blog Embrace, Adapt, Enhance.

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Why Teachers Love Using Those Magical OK Go Videos in Class

MindShift

’ ” And yet, backstage at concerts, he and the other band members are constantly meeting and hearing from these teacher fans, and their students. She also leads professional development workshops for other teachers, outlining how they, too, can use OK Go in their classrooms. She teaches math for non-math majors.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. The 1216BKBT Bluetooth Jackbox provides a cost-efficient way to stream audio from a smartphone, tablet or other Bluetooth-enabled device to six separate headphones.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs.

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How to Use Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions in the Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not quite as engaging, but still a useful tool if you do not have access to a class set of devices and headsets. This could be a fun experiment during a department meeting! Although VR requires a smartphone device, they only need wifi access. Then you will confirm which Google account you wish to use.

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Week of November 29, 2010 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

With 2 weeks between each workshop you will have an opportunity to try the tools with your students and come back to share your successes and questions. link] SMARTPHONES, HANDHELDS, AND APPS—ORCHESTRATING PRODUCTIVITY/LEARNING (ADMIN 2.0) Grace is what love does and is when it meets the sinful and undeserving."