article thumbnail

Why Is It Important to Create Individualized Professional Development for All Staff Members?

TeacherCast

Going Beyond the Major Applications While it is easy to do a comparison in how to provide professional development on word processors, this concept goes well beyond the computer. Same application … two completely different PD sessions.

EdTech 88
article thumbnail

Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market

Edsurge

For a quick summary, see our comparison chart at the bottom.). Google Classroom, which is a core app within G Suite for Education, is reminiscent of learning management systems like Schoology or Blackboard or Canvas—but is free for any educator and works on Chromebooks, iPads and other mobile devices. Google Google Classroom.

Microsoft 143
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why Is It Important to Create Individualized Professional Development for All Staff Members?

TeacherCast

While it is easy to do a comparison in how to provide professional development on word processors, this concept goes well beyond the computer. Chromebooks. Digital Learning Platforms. Same application … two completely different PD sessions. Going Beyond the Major Applications. District Website. IEP Direct. PowerSchool.

EdTech 90
article thumbnail

What Actually Works in EdTech? with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. But the flipside to that, what’s not, is what I would probably deem the most prevalent practice in our country, in my opinion, and that’s the “digital drill and kill.” Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

EdTech 209
article thumbnail

As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools

The Hechinger Report

An April survey from the National Indian Education Association, a nonprofit that advocates for Indigenous students, found that students in BIE schools have been given far fewer resources to complete distance learning than their public school counterparts. By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same.

Report 127