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9 Ways to Add Tech to your Lessons Without Adding Time to Your Day

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Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. have online libraries included with student resources. Use a digital timer for quizzes or other events.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

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virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Learn more here.

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169 Tech Tip #80–17 Ways to Add Tech without Adding Time

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Let’s start with seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: Include digital ebooks in your class library. Include online libraries with student resources. Expect digital class presentations to include video, audio, music, or a mixture of digital tools. Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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How and Why to Use Podcasts in Your Classes

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A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. This can be stored in the Podcast Library (mentioned below).

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15 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code

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Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. IFTTT allows users to create ‘recipes’ to automate functions, such as being notified when the weather changes or the arrival of an event. Coding with pixel art. Human robot.

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Wholehearted Libraries, the Game of School, Global Ed, Rescuing Self, Namaste Parenting, and Hack Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Here’s the current roundup of the upcoming Learning Revolution events. LIBRARY SECURITY 2020 | A 90-minute webinar. An extended 90-minute webinar with Q&A, part of a special Library 2.0 As libraries add new programs and services, some things stay the same: the need to keep library employees, patrons, and the buildings safe.

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7+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. Students set up market accounts and make decisions about buying and selling based on research and real-life events. Part of this is a large library of online interactive tools including videos and game-like activities. Tools for financial literacy .