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Fickett Elementary School: Making a Difference thorough Innovation and Collaboration

TeacherCast

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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Fickett Elementary School: Making a Difference through Innovation and Collaboration

TeacherCast

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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We Know How Much Planning Time Teachers Get on Average. Is It Enough?

Edsurge

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. I don’t think it’s so much the planning time.

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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson

The CoolCatTeacher

Elementary and primary students can learn to code. How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. Why code in the elementary grades? So, Sam, why do we even want to code in the elementary grades? When I first heard about coding in the elementary grades, I was really put off by it.

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How to direct a districtwide tech transformation on a budget

eSchool News

I gave our technology department marching orders to get every student and every teacher on a Chromebook and trained in the Google Suite within two weeks. We also have Chromebooks for every student and 3D printers and interactive whiteboards in our classrooms. We can (and will!) always hope for more funding.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

The CoolCatTeacher

00;02;42;00 – 00;02;59;00 Tom Mullaney It's referred to as the Chromebook Beta, and actually on the website says Bring Figma to your Chromebooks. So one group can go way over here, and one can right over there, and it's like kind of an infinite sizing. So wow, that's great news. Thank you for telling me that.

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

And with fast Wi-Fi, students can access G Suite for Education and other cloud-based educational apps on their Chromebooks. We have more group-based learning going on, but we also accommodate individual instruction. Chromebooks, Wi-Fi and AV Equipment Enhance Learning . Our goal is to enhance learning, and it works.