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25 Websites for Lesson Planning

Ask a Tech Teacher

BlendSpace –blend a variety of digital materials into one canvas for students. 110 lesson plans by topic, tool, and grade. Hello Ruby –lesson plans on technology. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Alma –create standards-based lessons and gradebook, with analytics. Educreations.

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13 Digital Tools to Empower Active Use

Tom Murray

Today’s digital world is littered with drill and kill technology, much of it no different than a digital version of the worksheets of years past. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning. An app is available for Chrome as well.

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Enriching Rocks with Blendspace, Tinkercad, Research, Thinglink, and Painting

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Blendspace. Early in the project, students come to the library to learn about a tool called Blendspace. This tool has gone through many changes and names. We also think about types of quizes and students create pre-test, midpoint checks, and post tests for their blendspace tiles.

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Best-in-Category Winners for 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher

Over the last month, readers voted on which tools had the greatest impact on readers. has it become a beloved tool in your classes or a failed experiment. Classroom Management Tool. Digital Storytelling Tool. Winner: TesTeach (Blendspace). Special Needs Tools: Winner: Open Dyslexic. Tech Ed Tool.

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7 Authentic Assessment Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thanks to technology, there are lots of fun and effective ways to assess learning in ways that transform your classroom. Tools: Socrative, PollDaddy, Google Forms. Tools: Twitter, a poll, Padlet collaborative wall, blog comments, Google Forms, a Discussion Board, ExitTicket. Tools: Padlet , Linoit. Time: a few minutes.

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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

Edsurge

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Since then, Reach’s focus has broadened, investing in early-stage companies building tools to support early-childhood education, postsecondary institutions and adult professional development. Blendspace was purchased by TES.

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Ten Free Resources and Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this second post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In this post I wish to begin pointing out some tools and resources to help as an educator builds that students centered classroom. Technology Integration Is A Step by Step Process. ClassTools.net.