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Wakelet: for curation, collaborating and telling your stories

NeverEndingSearch

I recently had a couple of long chats with Wakelet’s developers and came away even more impressed with the tool’s affordances for curation (and more), as well as the team’s commitment to discovering and meeting the needs of users. building resources for a class or lecture or workshop. writing a media-rich blog.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Number one skill for being successful in learning: the ability to self-assess. When focusing on 1:1, iPads, etc: Focus on teaching teachers to give better feedback and students to self-assess instead of the technology. Have narrowed down to four vendors to try iPads, Android tablets, Windows 8 tablets, Chromebooks.

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Laser Cutters in the Classroom

Kathy Schrock

One very cool feature of the FLUX Beamo Go app (iOS and Android) is that a student can draw a design on paper, use a phone or iPad to take a picture of it, send it to the Beamo and print it out. However, as we found out with 3D printers, students of all ages can create a design and the final product can be printed out by an adult.

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Individualized Supports for Students with ASD

edWeb.net

In her edWebinar “Meeting the Needs of Students with ASD Within the Mainstream Classroom” , Finkler outlined the biggest challenges with mainstreaming and key strategies for helping them thrive in their new environment. Capitalizing on special interests — using them as motivation to complete tasks and encourage interaction with peers.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

Serving at least 28 million students in more than 40,000 schools in every state and in more than 70 nations, the new organization represents a meeting of the minds and of complementary areas of skill and experience. Combined, ENA and CatchOn provide a rich portfolio of services to meet the demands of today’s digital schools.

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Lesson Study? There’s an App for That

MindShift

They think about what could be done differently in a future lesson to better meet the specific goal they are working on, like improving the quality of discussion that kids are having. McDougal said he feels the Lesson Note app meets his nonprofit’s mission to improve teaching. That’s why the base level app is available for free.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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