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Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Preschool is a major market in the world of apps, with more than half of apps on the Apple and Android platforms geared toward kids 5 and under. The iPhone App store offers dozens of apps aimed at preschool students. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

Using GoosechaseEDU scavenger hunt platform for iPhone or Android , you can create a new game or copy and adapt games from templates in the Game Library. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. (Optional) Plan for creating your own Seesaw Go!

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#ISTE13 - San Antonio Highlights & FUN!

The Daring Librarian

Member Networking Fair, Tower View Lobby -- Visit All 25 SIGs, Affiliates, Advocacy/ETAN, Young Educator Network, and other member communities who will showcase their activities and recruit new members. Search either the Apple Store or Android Marketplace for ISTE & it''s FREE! 3:00 – 5:00p.m. 5:45 – 7:00p.m. Cthulhu slippers!

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Which Apps Are Safe for Kids? Three Tools That Read the Fine Print for You

Edsurge

Countless more are available for Android devices. Common Sense Privacy Evaluations Common Sense, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization, maintains a database that evaluates edtech tools on whether they are safe for use in schools. Yet few users read the fine print—let alone students, as researchers have found.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

FRONTROW MOBILE APP ( www.gofrontrow.com ) FrontRow has released a mobile app that lets staff at schools using the Conductor paging, bells, and alerting system activate critical functions like a lockdown, evacuation warnings, all-clear, or other announcements from any Android or Apple mobile device.

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators. The course takes students up to four hours and can be completed over several weeks.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.