Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. I forget which software I have (sure, I remember MS Office, but what about Google Earth and Celestia?) If you use Gmail, you can email up to 20 MB (or more through your Google Drive).

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt. Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 24, 2021

Lisa shares a great Google Slides template and lesson idea — The Fake Blog Post! Related: 6 FREE Google Templates for Creative Productivity. I did a little googling and didn’t find much. I decided to use Google Slides for a variety of reasons: Familiarity : Most students have experience with this tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This week, I’ll share three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. I forget which software I have (sure, I remember MS Office, but what about Google Earth and Celestia?) If you use Gmail, you can email up to 20 MB (or more through your Google Drive).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This week, I’m sharing three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. Keep your antivirus software active. Update any software that needs it. If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As a reader, you need not always keep a heavy book with you. If you are an author and have published your book, you must know that eBook protection is of utmost importance. There are numerous DRM software available in the market, and you can take your pick depending on the kind of security measures you need.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. Part of the problem, he says, is technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon. Internet use.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

(I talk a lot about his idea in my books.). This question comes up a lot in a book I’m reading, Growing Up Shared: How Parents Can Share Smarter on Social Media—and What You Can Do to Keep Your Family Safe in a No-Privacy World. Sharenting : the habitual use of social media to share news, images, etc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2016

This week, I’ll share three holiday activities that will get your computers, technology, and social media ready for the new year. Keep your antivirus software active. Update any software that needs it. If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

You can find us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’. Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Her new book Sketchnotes for Educators: 100 Inspiring Illustrations for Lifelong Learners is a MUST BUY for every teacher and administrator. We’ll also be giving away one of Sylvia’s Sketchnotes for Education books in today’s giveaway! ” Get a 45-day free trial of SmartLab Game-Based Learning Software.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That charge, by Brian Goegan, clearly struck a nerve with students around the country, leading to memes on social media portraying the professor as a hero fighting corrupt university officials, as well as t-shirts with the slogan: “ my homework was more expensive than this t-shirt.” I’m so tired of spending just pointless money.”

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 3, 2020

I marvel at the notion that corporations like Microsoft, Zoom, and Google knelt down to offer free services to help educators surveil their students and monitor their interactions with their platforms. Their YouTube views, Instagram likes, and other social media metrics must be off the charts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Keep your antivirus software active. Update any software that needs it. If you get Google alerts, set them for weekly (unless you really must know when someone posts on the term ‘Labrador puppies’). If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2015

Here are five tools that will make you look and act like the Diva of Digital: Google Maps. Bring the latest version of the Google Maps app on your smartphone or iPad, complete with audio directions. If friends are looking for a Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts near the conference, Google Maps will find one.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Who picks the digital apps, software, extensions, and programs used in the classes? Do teachers pull out the iPads only to practice rote math drills (which is a good idea) or do students become inspired by the creativity of apps like GeoGebra and take notes using a digital tool like Google Keep? Or a stand-alone app like Remind ?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Considered a high poverty district, we provide our students with everything—uniforms, books, book bags, free breakfast, free lunch, and an after-school program with snack and dinner, served family style, with constructive conversation about their day in the classroom. MobyMax —Digital personalized learning software ?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. The new problem we have created is a dramatic increase in student anxiety. Students are stressed out. But the consultant was right.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

per month to get access to Chegg Study, which promises students “step-by-step Textbook Solutions for 9,000 books” and the ability to “search millions of homework answers.” She actually sent me a meme that's been going around on social media that captures how she feels in general. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 12, 2015

Heck I even wrote a book on the subject!) From there, login via Facebook, Google or Twitter to get started. Each collection has its own unique URL that can be shared via email, messaging, or any social media channel. Curation, as many of you know, is near and dear to my heart. Creating a Collection couldn’t be easier.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

I want them to join Google classroom. and I want them to turn their photograph in as an assignment in Google Classroom. Classroom Management Tip #2: Harry and Rosemary Wong’s The First Days of School book helped me with workflow so very much! For example, I now share clearly how we enter and leave the room.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 4, 2022

Tools like Kindle Create can help you format your eBook and convert it into a book that everyone would love to read. Kindle Create can assist you in formatting the complete layout of your book, including the font, margins, page numbers, table of contents, and paragraph styles. An 8-Step Guide to Digitization for Book Publishers.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s helped me in my writing – and when I started using it, it was the best writing software available. Grammarly is a proofreading software tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to detect grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, sentence structure, and word choice mistakes. I’m a long-time Grammarly user.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 6, 2017

It is quite possible that your catalog is the most expensive piece of software in your building. In social media style, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. You may share your collections within your own school and beyond, even to non-Destiny users, simply by sharing links or posting to Google Classroom.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 8, 2020

If you think about it, many young give feedback to others online through different social media platforms, but is it helpful? How can I leverage tools, like online discussions and video conferencing software, to allow learners to engage with each other? Could we ask students to provide feedback to one another?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Folks still retyped the press releases Google issued and retyped the press releases Facebook issued, lauding these companies’ (and their founders’) efforts to reshape the curriculum and reshape the classroom. I’m also writing a book, and frankly that’s where my time and energy is going. I’m done.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Once again, the software giants impressed me with their free educator certification programs. Google for Education, Microsoft EDU, BrainPOP, and Apple all offered multi-level certification options on the Saturday and Sunday preceding ISTE 2018. As a director of academic technology, I decided to focus on five areas at ISTE this year.

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techlearning

JUNE 4, 2018

Class Tech Tips: 10 Tips for Using Social Media to Tell Your School’s Story ] Skype with an Expert In my book Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning for a Tech-Rich Classroom , I talk about the power of virtual reality to spark questions. A few options include Zoom , Google Hangout , and Facetime.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

By engaging and partnering with community stakeholders and organizations such as service providers, cable companies, and software companies and seeking grant opportunities, school districts will have access to digital equity resources and possible subsidized funding. Innovative Approaches. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For example, those with IEPs or 504s that include seating accommodations; however for most students I just assign their seats randomly (often just clicking the “randomize” button on my school’s rostering software, and then manually moving individual students as needed per specific learning plans).

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It has been great watching the stream of potential uses for Google Wave roll in. Here are what I believe to be the best potential uses of Google Wave. I could see the Google Wave being used for class discussions and assignments on these snow days. Johnsonlabz : I am interested in using Google wave for writing class scripts.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 17, 2019

Using coding software, offline and online coding activities, and resources found on websites such as Code.org, students and teachers together use a design thinking process to understand, define, ideate, plan, build and test coding-based projects. Coding Software. Carrie is also a strategic outreach manager at Wonder Workshop.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s delightful that we live in a time where software can really help the entire writing process. Grammar checker software helps find those embarrassing typos, and for some individuals (like me), it also defuses the grammar check frustration. Why Proofreading Software Is So Useful. Top Proofreading Software Products.

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