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13 Digital Tools to Empower Active Use

Tom Murray

Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning.

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10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

My original post was inspired by Suzy Brooks’ use of her SMART Board as a learning center. While many of the concepts from the original post are certainly still applicable, here are 10 new ideas for creating learning centers. ThingLink (or Padlet or Blendspace ) could be a great way to guide students through research.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Some great upcoming (and all free) Learning Revolution events are below. The third annual OZeLive online conference started today with an early keynote by Lucy Gray , "Going Global: Project-Based Learning with a Global Focus," which should already be available in recorded form. Feb 23rd - 28th: OZeLive. Register at [link].

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Spruce Up Your Centers with Technology

Learning in Hand

Learning in Hand Show #31 is about giving your learning centers or stations a makeover. Watch the video to learn about some of the websites and apps that can help you set the course of the center, provide content , support creativity , and capture responses. Video Transcript This is Learning in Hand!

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Digital Tools for Flipping Your Classroom

Class Tech Integrate

During the session Rachelle gave attendees several resources for flipping learning for students. Poth set the stage for the why she wanted flipped learning for her students. Poth even discussed the benefits of using these student made digital projects as resources for other students to learn from. Now, on to the tools!

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22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Digital devices include PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, and Surface Tablets. But one thing all programs have in common: They’re popular with students because they’re how kids want to learn. A critical feature of the 21st Century student is they are engaged in their learning. Backchannel Devices.

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Teacher Play – 6 Apps to Explore This Summer

Fractus Learning

Blendspace (web). Like Zaption, Blendspace allows teachers to develop interactive lessons using multimedia resources. But Blendspace also allows you to integrate documents, images, websites (pretty much anything that you can find on the web) in addition to videos. Versal (web; also available as a Chromebook app).