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Assessing the effectiveness of cloud-based web filters for K-12 schools

Hapara

Today’s students are learning on computers, tablets and mobile-devices and using the internet for class activities, research, assessments, communication and collaboration. Your web filter needs to be powerful enough for current learning needs. Your web filter needs to be powerful enough for current learning needs.

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Level Up Your Virtual Teaching with Screencasting Tools!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration. Explain Everything (iOS, Android and Chromebooks) and Educreations (iOS and the web) are similar tools with a whiteboard you can add pdfs, images, drawings, shapes, colors, text, audio, and more! Also, test out the free video editor.

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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

It worked until our site eventually became one of the first sites to roll out a one-to-one policy with Chromebooks. I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. . Online discussions can move to face to face.

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Screencast Tools to Demonstrate Student Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration. Explain Everything (iOS, Android and Chromebooks), Educreations (iOS and the web) and ShowMe (iOS, Android and Chromebooks) are similar with a blank canvas you can add pdfs, images, drawings, shapes, colors, text, audio, and more!

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3 Ways to Overcome High Student-Teacher Ratios and Improve Personalized Learning

EdTech Magazine

Personalized learning tools such as Chromebooks or online learning modules are well positioned to make productive use of students’ time , allowing teachers to utilize their time for meetings with small groups and individuals. Schools across the nation already do annual assessments through standardized testing.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

Ask a Tech Teacher

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan. assess success at completion. Blended Learning. Transforming Traditional Classroom Lessons to Online Learning.

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5 Questions We Ask While Using Rubrics

The CoolCatTeacher

He teaches English at Mountain House High School in California, a 1:1 Chromebook blended learning school, where he received the 2015 Online Course Design Award from Blended Schools Network for his work on creating engaging online learning courses.