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5 Tips That Foster Collaborative Professional Learning

EdTech Magazine

A few years ago, a group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that paid for notebooks and software for creating a professional development program for elementary school teachers. Make sure one person remains ready to redirect the group if they get off-track.

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Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Educators should identify specific learning outcomes and consider how a particular tool aligns with those outcomes and how it can enhance or complement those objectives. Educational apps and software designed for tablets and computers provide another avenue for interactive learning. Platforms like Kahoot!

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

He has compiled his thinking on the issue into a new book, “ Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools. ” We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And they said, ‘the principals weren't trying to stop this teacher use of Google Docs.’

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

Edsurge

While there’s competition in internet search , for instance, Google has 92 percent of the market, while the nearest competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, has a mere 2 percent. Money turns out to be key for building tech platforms, both in terms of software development and building out partnerships, courses and marketing. (To

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Laser Cutters in the Classroom

Kathy Schrock

I attached the Beamo to the WiFi network in my home (you can also use Ethernet if you wish), downloaded the design software to my Mac, and updated the firmware in the Beamo via a USB drive. wood and loaded a sample item, found in the Beam Studio software, to print. The LCD panel was bright and easy to navigate.

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How to develop K-12 open educational resources

Hapara

There are three main steps for backward design: What do you want the outcome to be? Google Workspace. If you want to keep it simple, you can create content using Google Docs, Google Slides or another type of tool in Google Workspace. You can also directly upload files from Google Drive. Screencasting tools.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

Shoshana Zuboff weaves a very different tale in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. More clicks, of course, led to more revenue, and behavioral surplus became a new and dominant business model, at first for digital advertisers like Google and Facebook but shortly thereafter for all sorts of companies in all sorts of industries.