Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

Guide provides case studies on how districts successfully adopted integrated digital curriculum systems. The eBook provides educators with digital curriculum strategies, case studies and insights for connecting courses, resources and assessments with common standards and learning objects. Jump started and crowd sourced.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join the Library 2.0 Please also join the Library 2.0 Steve Steve Hargadon Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

KITABOO is one of the best digital tools for the classroom because its content is designed for bite-sized learning with knowledge nuggets, interactive assessments and gamification. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2018

Their newest is the twenty-eight-page ISTE-aligned Change Management eBook. It addresses how to create a sense of urgency, build a coalition, form and communicate your strategic vision, enable action by removing barriers and instituting change, generate short-term wins, and more. Collect and assess data easily and quickly.

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Digital Citizenship eBook Outcomes Blended Learning 190

Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2016

Piktochart is my favorite way to create infographics with clipart, templates, fonts, and more in their library. Click here for a how-to video. How to Design Infographics post. Infographics for assessment. Rubric for assessing infographics by Kathy Schrock. Free Infographic Tools and Apps.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This is an important moment for education , and the Summit has been (and will continue to be) an incredible opportunity to think together about how to move forward in a time when students, parents, teachers, administrators, librarians, and others have found their normal school lives disrupted.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2023

– Kids’ Books and Videos This is a digital library for kids 12 and under. Book Creator This app allows students to create their own ebooks. Photomath This app allows students to scan math problems, and then it shows them how to solve them step-by-step. They can add text, images, audio, and even video.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Teachers know best how to personalize learning for their students. Savvas offers educators an easy, fast, and seamless way to assess learning needs and differentiate instruction for every student in the grade K-8 math and literacy classroom. Data-Informed, Differentiated Instruction Made Easy. Personalized Learning in Action.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction LMS Learning 97

Benchmark Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

On the right side of the BU Library interface, there is a blue box labeled “Add New Bookshelf.” From your Library, click the “Assignments” button and type a name for your new assignment. You can then begin adding assessments, eBooks, and ePosters. Create Bookshelves. Add New Assignments. Try the Assignments feature.

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eBook How To Online Assessments Libraries 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference is just one week away! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

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. How to go Paperless in Your Classroom. See–simple.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Back in November of 2010, I wrote a response to a superintendent’s proposed elimination of school libraries in New York State. The problem with libraries is that they are anachronisms , sacred cows. To be honest, I believe that all children deserve strong school libraries with professional teacher librarians.

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Libraries eBook Equity of Access Accessibility 75

techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It now offers more than 13,000 high-quality, leveled eBooks to help schools boost their balanced literacy program for students in grades K–12 to improve reading skills. The expansion also comes amid news that the United States is falling behind in international rankings based on an assessment of fourth grade students’ reading skills.

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eBook Libraries Education Blended Learning 40

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

creating a media-rich school or library newsletter. encouraging student groups to build and share knowledge for a project or presentation or assessment. creating a media-rich school or library newsletter. encouraging student groups to build and share knowledge for a project or presentation or assessment.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2016

Below are a few ideas on how to make your QR codes more interactive. The QR Code Treasure Hunt generator by Classtools will help you easily create a series of QR codes for assessments, scavenger hunts, and treasure hunts. Students can create QR codes for the library. Recommended Web Tools. Click to access that resource!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And tomorrow is the last day to purchase the all-access Summit "library" pass at $99, allowing you to be able to watch any of the 300 talks and interviews on your own time and forever. Purchase the all-access pass and you can give one copy of the all-access Summit library pass to someone else as a gift.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. By far, the biggest question Boyle’s teachers have had is about assessments.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 19, 2018

Maker culture is thriving in schools and public libraries across the United States and beyond. With hundreds, or even thousands of kids using the library space, it doesn’t make sense to design that space without their voice. The New Canaan High School Library won AASL’s National School Library Program of the year in 2010.

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Libraries eBook Professional Learning Assessment 40

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

From a media literacy perspective, it's important for students of all ages to learn how to think critically about different types of media -- including movies and videos. Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom -- Explore this unique genre of video on YouTube and see why they're great for learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Our new @HOME remote learning features include lesson guides, videos, teacher demonstrations, interactive activities, assessments and much more, organized so that it’s easy to implement. The program includes Smithsonian Science Stories , which is available as eBooks in English or Spanish, above or below grade. Next, the Get Informed!

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Learning Libraries Video Resources 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Most importantly, teachers can create and deliver formative assessments through Cortex and see the results in real time. Across three different [school] districts across three different states, teachers created a rubric and gave it to the students to choose how to show their understanding with options to use to express themselves.

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eBook Education Future Ready Libraries 60

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 29, 2016

It’s hard to make sense of the current climate for school libraries. In other areas, library programs are being cut because some tight budgets favor more pressing priorities. In other areas, library programs are being cut because some tight budgets favor more pressing priorities. April 29, 2016.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. Future Ready has developed a common set of information, tools, and assessment, that are all available for free.

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Future Ready Libraries Professional Learning Personalized Learning 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

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. Please also see the notes below to learn more about how you can get involved with these events. but which are the best?

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eBook Conference Libraries Game-Based Learning 48

Fractus Learning

JULY 19, 2016

The logical conclusion: encourage boys to read on digital devices (ebook readers, iPads, smartphones). Our research shows using ebooks increases boys’ reading progress and makes them keener, more confident readers. Many boys I taught wanted to read certain books but complained how heavy they were to carry around or hold in their hands.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

How to Use These Applications with Google Classroom. library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications). interactive, common core assessments). academic and library content). K-12 resource library). ebooks for students). Check these out! Click To Tweet. quiz tool).

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. They are doing the best they can in order to function within their circumstances, and (determine) how successful is that?

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

While there are still eBooks being consumed, it is dwarfed by the amount of time people of all ages now spend on short-form reading of “throw away” information that is mostly media articles or social. I have read five long-form eBooks on it in the last few months through the Kindle reader and enjoyed them just as much as paper.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

and in response to articles by Dr. Marc Bernstein, Superintendent of the Valley Stream (NY) Central High School District that question the relevance of libraries, Librarian Joyce Valenza says it all about what it means to be a librarian. The problem with libraries is that they are anachronisms, sacred cows. Bravisima, Joyce!

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Libraries eBook Wiki Laptops 40

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

The How-To Page recommends a five-step process for designing instruction: 1: Determine Objectives. Desired outcome (explore, apply, assess)? #2: They can also incorporate such content-rich resources as library databases, ebooks, videos, and the growing array of available OERs. How to Take: Log in to your account.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. in the library as a research tool . How to Celebrate World Read Aloud Day.

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Learning Edmodo Libraries Common Core 324

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. Table of Contents. The Basics. New Pathways to Knowledge and Learning: Rónán O’Beirne.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

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 how to collect and share data that connects your library to student learning. Is your library mobile friendly?

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Conference Classroom Libraries Common Core 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Today’s reality is that readers and information seekers are having increasingly less need to visit a physical library to meet their basic information needs. Why, many educators are asking, does a school need a physical library when seemingly all resources can be obtained using an inexpensive netbook and a wireless network connection?

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