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Big question for edtech: But how do we know what’s working?

The Hechinger Report

They can also learn about new start-ups, games and ventures with names like BetterLesson , Blendspace , Edthena , Educreations , Hapara , Nearpod , Zaption , eSpark and LearnZillion , all eager to demonstrate. Disclaimer: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report. Technology'

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What a blended learning classroom really looks like: An urban teacher’s reboot

The Hechinger Report

Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others. I use programs such as i-ready , ST Math , Zearn Math , Blendspace by TES and EDpuzzle so that students are able to access content to build their conceptual, procedural and fluency understanding of various concepts. Here’s one way that can work.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. For building individual lessons/instruction : A number of tools scaffold the creation of technology-rich lessons by prompting us to curate resources into instructional design. What’s curation?

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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes

MindShift

She used to teach social studies, but is now the K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach at Rock Valley Community Schools in Iowa. She emphasizes that, as with any classroom technology, teachers need to be careful not to just substitute a tech tool for an analog one. Sites are then easy to drag and drop to reorder.

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