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Learning with Google: Announcements for 2021

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Earlier today, Google held their global online livestream " Learning with Google." Over the course of ninety minutes, they rolled out a roadmap of upcoming changes and upgrades to the Google platform happening between now and the end of the year. The good news: Google says they are committed to a free option for education.

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Read and Write for Google

SpeechTechie

Many school districts and professionals are now using Google Apps for Education- a suite of tools with amazing features for all students. TextHelp has created Read and Write for Google , a terrific add-on to Google Apps that can be used in the Google Chrome browser on a computer (i.e.

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Padlet Post #3: Engineering Design Cycle

Cycles of Learning

This post DEFINITELY represents something I am very excited about and I sense is working very well: capturing student work during an engineering design cycle in the distance learning format. I have noticed huge improvements in student work when the iterative process is no longer behind a google doc firewall, but visible for all to see.

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Immersive Reader: A powerful tool to support schoolwide literacy

NeverEndingSearch

Acknowledging Google Education’s popularity in schools, teachers & students will be also able to login and use free @Office365 apps with Google EDU accounts. Microsoft Accessibility And Assistive Technologies For Education: A Total Economic Impact Analysis. in Minecraft Education Edition.

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How to create accessible e-learning design

Neo LMS

For example, if you create a simple Google Document, don’t just bold and increase the font-size for the title and subtitles, but use the settings in the upper ribbon instead. Using headings throughout text is a great way to identify and structure the text, for both human users and for indexing bots as well.

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

The definition of "easy" will depend on the target age. Can the content be interpreted by assistive technologies? To determine whether a digital learning tool works with various assistive technologies, many operating systems have built-in AT features under “Settings.” Is it easy to operate?

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newsela

SpeechTechie

presenting this material digitally will add a level of engagement; newsela integrates nicely with Google Classroom.

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