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Draw More Out of Your Chromebook with the Logitech Pen

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

This means it works MUCH BETTER than the “regular” styluses on Chromebooks. Notice the comparison of trying to sketch chemical bonds on a Jamboard Jam. While I immediately enjoyed using the pen with my Jams on my Chromebook, I was surprised to see how easily my 9 year old took to using the Pen. alicekeeler.com/openmiddlejam.

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Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

The most recent entrant into the education digital device market is Chromebooks–able to do ‘most’ of what ‘most’ students need–at a precipitously lower price. That means educators now have four options (desktops, laptops, iPads, Chromebooks) as they select tools to unpack education. A Chromebook will not run native software.

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14 Education Advancements in a Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

More Chromebooks than iPads. Chromebooks and iPads have become the two most popular digital devices in classrooms (with laptops, 2-in-1 devices like Surface Pro, and Macs next). What changed in 2017 is that 1) Chromebooks improved considerably from when they first entered the education market.

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How TV Can Help In The Classroom And On The Field

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teaching Reading With Book-based Movies. One way to do this is to have them read books based on movies, then have them watch the movie as a class assignment. You can then have them write a report about how the book and movie differ. Maybe even let the kids pick different titles to teach them how to make comparisons.

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The Big Picture- Classroom Management in the Digital Age

EdTechTeam

Two things sent me searching for a great resource on classroom management in a 1:1 environment: First, we went 1:1 Chromebooks in all of our junior highs this past January. Part of this was looking at how classroom management would be affected school-wide now that every student would have his/her own Chromebook. New audience: parents.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. For some hardware, districts can comparison shop. To buy Chromebooks, the most-purchased device on the ed tech market , school districts can check prices from Google, Acer, Samsung, HP and others.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Learn how to use the iPad apps “Book Creator” and “Creative Book Builder” to create and share enhanced/multimedia eBooks using DropBox for free cloud storage/distribution. Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices.