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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Every Earth Day (April 22, 2023 this year–see our previous article on Earth Day Class Activities ) someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Really, though: Why not?

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5 Easy Peasy Options for Tech Integration

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Showing older students how to use the Google search engine tools ( [link] )as well as how to use your library's digital learning databases are important steps to preparing our students to learn how to find quality information with ease. This article talks about the benefits of mind mapping: [link]. Mind mapping.

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

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The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Options include Jing (provides a link to a video), Screencast-o-matic (provides a video that can be embedded or uploaded to YouTube), and Educreations. Once in place, here are the digital tools that will replace tasks that precipitate daily learning: Digital Note-taking.

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How to go Paperless in Your Classroom

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The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Options include Jing (provides a link to a video), Screencast-o-matic (provides a video that can be embedded or uploaded to YouTube), and Educreations. Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip.

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How SAMR and Tech Can Help Teachers Truly Transform Assessment

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I read an interesting article in EdSurge last week about how current educational technologies do little to move learners beyond rote recall of knowledge and it caught me off guard. What struck me most was the narrative in the article, which seemingly compared the role of technology to the role of pedagogy.

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

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And, crucially, the service offers many digital copies of the same books or articles, which has eliminated any fighting over books that might have taken place around big research projects in the past. Educreations is another presentation tool that can aid in flipping the classroom or letting kids explain their thinking.

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