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Smartphones in Education: Redirecting Distraction with Mobile Learning

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Assess Learning and Stay Organized. Halla also uses polleverywhere.com to assess learning. Khan Academy videos feature teachers describing their lessons in drawings on virtual blackboards, helping students and visual learning centers bring home maximum results.

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How Educators Save Time and Energy in Their Content Creation and Feedback Loops

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Create digital lessons from a library Recommended Resources BookWidgets Blog BookWidgets Webinars BookWidgets Tutorials Teaching with BookWidgets | Facebook BookWidgets YouTube Channel Finding user-friendly online platforms to create projects and activities is crucial in our classrooms. The Widget Library. Image Credit: BookWidgets 2.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Although many professors still favor hard copies, online libraries have also made their way into the course plan in some places across the globe. Here is where the cloud comes in to save the day once more.

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Assigning Homework In the Digital Age: The Benefits of Virtual Classrooms

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Teachers can use Study.com’s virtual classrooms to create and grade homework assignments using Study.com’s vast library of content. Assignments from virtual classrooms can also be shared on other learning management systems like Google Classrooms, Blackboard, and Schoology. Virtual Classrooms Assess Student Comprehension and Progress.

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Pivot Interactives Announces New Iris™ Technology to Increase Students’ Active Phenomena-Based Learning

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Engaging students with phenomena and the science practices across the learning cycle, from introduction through assessment. ” Teachers may access Iris tools through the Pivot Interactives license, which integrates with several learning management systems, including Canvas, Blackboard Learn, and D2L Brightspace.

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Diversity, Cybersecurity and the Future of Libraries: Day 2 Recap From Educause

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an assessment system that looks for productivity over process and method. SAVE THE LIBRARY? WHAT ABOUT THE LIBRARY SAVING CAMPUS: On Monday the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a preliminary report on “The Future of Libraries.”Chris In fact, she argues, “we may need libraries to save us.”

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4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom

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In fact, with Kiddom, you get everything you love about Google Classroom as well as the features only Kiddom brings to learning such as: the ability to plan, assess, and analyze via a free library of standards-aligned resources. media library –collect and share media resources. GPS –find map locations around the world.

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