Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Our various IT classes cover a wide range of topics with web development, e-commerce and SEO all being covered to some degree. Google uses a series of different algorithms which are frequently updated including Panda and Penguin, although at this stage never are irrelevant. The objective is to enhance the users’ experience.

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E-rate Google Digital Citizenship Resources 223

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Whether students type keywords into a Google search box or enter a URL (uniform resource locator) into the search engine address bar, your web filter should block unwanted content from reaching learners. . Schools may choose to block certain online discussion boards, blogs or website categories to protect students. But because H?para

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Digital Citizenship How To Internet Safety Hapara 243

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blog: [link] Twitter: @ CastroCorner Note from Teresa: We conduct weekly PDs across 5 platforms, including our YouTube Channel [link] on topics requested by our teachers! Blog: [link] Twitter: @ TechTosas.

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Accessibility Tools Microsoft Data 387

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Melissa Mann on episode 167 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard.

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Google Twitter Data Tools 291

Neo LMS

JULY 4, 2017

A good LMS will accept videos, pictures, Office and Google docs. As you know, students all learn in different ways and at different rates; learning paths mean that you can design different routes for students, yet still get them all to the same point of mastery. Yes, another weird acronym, however this one is useful and important.

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Course LMS E-rate System 208

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2018

Public Schools District 36 — which consists of 1,600 students in five schools — the central office team writes a blog post every other week to update staff. Small districts also can resell equipment, take advantage of E-rate funds and evaluate systems yearly for redundancies or other unnecessary spending. At Winnetka (Ill.)

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E-rate EdTech Social Media System 191

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. One of the best ways to distribute an assessment such as is by first creating a template (using Google Drawings in this case) and then distributing them through Google Classroom. Why Use a Rating System?

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. One of the best ways to distribute an assessment such as is by first creating a template (using Google Drawings in this case) and then distributing them through Google Classroom. Why Use a Rating System? The PD Topic Interest Survey.

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

TeacherCast

JUNE 7, 2015

He is the author of the book Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom and writes at the Ditch That Textbook blog about using technology and creative ideas in teaching. He is a Google Certified Teacher (Austin ’14), a PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator, a Bammy! E-mail: matt@DitchThatTextbook.com.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter If you want to know how to start an eSports program in your school. From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports. from Texas Tech University.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 364

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Wikipedia’s openness leads a number of students to categorize it as a blog. Look for editorial ratings.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Perspectives Blog. The see news ratings for each story and can filter for perspective and trace a story back in time. The Perspectives Blog acknowledges AllSides’ potential bias around a news issue and presents snippets from multiple perspectives as well as a list of recent relevant posts. New source bias ratings.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. She also created a system through Google Classroom for them to easily submit materials and documentation electronically. Life Schools started small in the first year. First, they identified their desired goals.

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Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). Ratings and reviews a based on standards-aligned, multifaceted rubric used by a team of expert reviewers and a select group of educators who field-test products for their value with learners. Follow her @TammyWorcester.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Immediately, we can start to help new teachers and help each other in the process. K., & Bruegmann, E. appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. 24) Jackson, C. 25) Kraft, M.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 237

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This blog is the second in a series on digital equity from CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. However, most of our time, focus, and resources are concentrated on at-school connections -- a sensible strategy when the state of technology at school has been severely lacking (see CoSN's 2014 E-Rate and Infrastructure Survey ).

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Broadband E-rate Laptops Survey 40

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. So Google Bard , which is like kind of the their version of ChatGPT is going to come naturally with citation. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools? Should it be blocked?

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 427

IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

By using Google Drive or Archive.org , media can be made available for students to download offline, when they may be without a WiFi connection as well as for those students with limited data plans. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. Smartphones are great for watching short videos or listing to music.

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Smartphone Learning Mobility Social Media 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Recently, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I’ve added to in creating this short blog post. Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 8, 2017

This is the second of my series of blog posts celebrating the achievements and progress of former students. On graduation she wrote a blog post about her time at Plymouth University. At my current school we are very Google based. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. degree in primary education.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 28, 2011

So my wife, my buddy from Marching Mizzou, and I e-mailed back and forth to see if this thing was possible, and could we do it for a super-small amount of money. Well we found an open-source search engine that could serve as the platform, discussed social sharing and teacher ratings. A real rating from a real teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This new weekly blog post / email is replacing the regular email I have sent out for the last couple of years for the now-defunct Host-Your-Own-Webinar program (I still have hopes of resurrecting that near-to-my-heart program, and when that happens we''ll wrap it into this weekly missive). And apps like Kno and Stanza failed to work.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | What then of the students? The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | What then of the students? The breach affects 1.3

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Brainscape

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By rating how well you know the answer to the question on a scale of 1 to 5, you tell Brainscape’s spaced repetition algorithm how often to repeat that flashcard. You rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 5 on how well you knew that particular piece of information, and this determines how frequently you’ll see that card again.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully. You can also read his leadership blog at www.educationrewired.org. Wherever the location, funding is always a challenge for educational leaders.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 98

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In one minute there are over 2 million search queries on Google, 6 million Facebook views, over 200 million e-mails sent and 100,000 tweets. This assumes that the growth rate will continue at its current pace, which of course it won't. I currently have 3 devices with me, and I'm using two of them to write this blog post.

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E-rate Mobility Social Media Laptops 66

Hubbli

JULY 4, 2016

According to a survey of more than 40,000 parents in 50 school districts of 22 states, parents prefer school communication via email, e-newsletters, and the school website over more traditional forms of communication such as telephone messages and backpack flyers. How to Give Parents What They’re Looking for Most.

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Mobility E-rate Tablets Survey 41

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

New AV technologies, such as the ClickShare wireless presentation systems from Barco and wePresent, huddle systems from Mersive, Crestron, and Harman, and interactive displays from the likes of InFocus, Nureva, Google, Cisco, and Avocor, put more power in the hands of learners. But now you have information at your ‘lips.’

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Photo: Meghan E. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I Google’s search engine serves up more of what you’ve clicked on in the past. A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. People associate repeating grades with disastrous consequences.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Our sharks were Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle; Jason Jones, a co-editor of the ProfHacker blog and director of educational technology at Trinity College, in Connecticut; and Paul Freedman, founder of Entangled Ventures, an education-technology company. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

Instead of schools being the place to get treatment for their needs, they often have been viewed through a lens of academic or behavior problems which, at times, has even led to the criminalization of Black and brown youth at disproportionate rates. See blog posts/transcripts for all episodes. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play.

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Learning Outcomes System Strategy 64

Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

Tagged on: April 8, 2017 Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data | Google Research → Fascinating and promising approach. It could theoretically enable privacy-first personalized learning without the need to share student data with cloud providers. Being watched never does."

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EdTech E-rate Data Android 191

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). " Maybe, maybe not.

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). " Maybe, maybe not.

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

The site rates positive messages, positive role models, diverse representation, violence and scariness, sex, romance, and nudity, language, products and purchases, and drinking, drugs, and smoking for each title. What I typically do if everyone is reading in a book club is create a google form with book trailers or at least images of books.

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Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72