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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledge bases digitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. digital devices–such as laptops, iPads , Chromebooks , or desktops, for daily use. sharing digitally to build knowledge. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

Vizor

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. This is ideal to get right BEFORE getting the Chromebooks. You purchase hundreds, if not thousands, of Chromebooks. Retrieved from Kelly Stephens Twitter Feed.

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How to Build Your PLN

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Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Here’s why: It helps you grow professionally. How to build a PLN.

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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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