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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

In one teacher’s case, introducing Chromebooks into her class helped her simultaneously manage what was once an unruly classroom and improve student engagement. . Now the entire eighth grade is doing vocabulary in their homeroom with digital badges, from a 25-minute presentation.” . . by Eli Zimmerman.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

These will include tools like YouTube, podcasts, forums, discussion boards, Twitter and Google Hangouts (for those old enough), Google Slides and Google Draw, and a comic creator like Pixton. Test takers can receive digital badges and/or certificates when they pass assessments (probably at a Northstar testing location).

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World Of Difference

A Principal's Reflections

I write this post extremely proud that Laura has run with the autonomy she has been granted and has joined a cadre of NMHS educators and students who are constantly redefining what education should look like in the digital age. The film festival took place both in person and on Twitter. She has become a pillar of sustainable change.

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Lee Ann Yonker on episode 168 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On Twitter it’s #MiniGoogleMasters for the younger kids and #MakingGoogleMasters for the older kids. “I have these great digital badges. Twitter: @ leeannyonker.

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Running to the Classroom-Summit Soundboard Colorado

EdTechTeam

Backed by two teammates who had also attended the conference, we were eager to finally unlock the resources that our school’s Chromebooks had been patiently holding onto for months. As time passed, we started to settle down into our new and improved use of our Chromebooks.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

Ask a Tech Teacher

This time, it’s not about iPads and Chromebooks; it’s 1:1 computing. Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. Education is changing. Facebook @DigitalPromise [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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