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JULY 8, 2022

Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. They become the environment of your classroom, like the library corner and the math facts on the walls.

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JULY 29, 2022

Unlike print books and many ebooks, PDFs can be marked up and then erased at the end of the school year. Using a PDF annotation tool like Kami for Chromebooks or Adobe Acrobat for pretty much any digital device, you can take notes throughout the year for review or reminders. It’s that they aren’t inclusive enough.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Now, beyond the moral and ethical persuasiveness of a paperless classroom, there is compelling evidence that the time is right to eliminate paper from the classroom: the high cost of printing : Yale University noted that “Every 2.5 Three years ago, I wrote about going paperless in your classroom but much has changed.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

In MTI 562 The Tech-infused Teacher, you will use a suite of digital tools to make your lesson plans pop while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. tech ed eBooks. Digital Citizenship.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. tech ed eBooks. Solve common tech problems that arise in the classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 20, 2018

The post 15 Collaborative Tools for Your Classroom That Are NOT Google appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s no secret that I love Google tools, but Google is not the only option for your classroom. Finding ways to facilitate and support collaboration in the classroom is not always easy.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Their approach is good but way down the SAMR pyramid to what can be done today, easily, in classrooms. Augmentation: Technology not only replaces a traditional tool but adds functionality, e.g. using Google Earth to explore the setting of a story rather than a map. He also offers a Digital Breakout Template that can be downloaded.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. 2 tech ed eBooks. The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Create digital portfolios that store, share, and curate work.

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MAY 9, 2018

Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. I include Prezi, Google MapMaker, Scratch, Voice Thread, Glogster, and Tagxedo, These will be tools they don’t know how to use (and maybe you don’t either). Digital Citizenship. Write an Ebook.

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MAY 14, 2021

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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JULY 5, 2017

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. 2 tech ed eBooks.

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JUNE 2, 2017

Become comfortable with both the native tool included with the ebook and other options students might use at home or during research like iAnnotate , Notability , and Acrobat. Submit homework digitally. Next year, incorporate it into your classroom management by asking students to submit their work electronically.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 4, 2019

The post 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you ready to use audio in Google Slides? One of the most common questions that I get is how to insert audio in Google Slides, a feature that many have missed after leaving PowerPoint. 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects.

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MSEDTechie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Digital Citizenship Week is October 19-25th. Digital Citizenship Week is all about teaching kids how to think critically, be safe, and make smart and responsible decisions when using digital media. All lessons are based on Common Sense Media’s free K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2016

These will be from my upcoming ebook, 169 Real-World Ways to Put Tech Into Your Class Now (expected publication date: August 2016) where I provide 1) an overview of the tech topics most important to your teaching, and 2) practical strategies to address common classroom tech problems. close, reopen …. There’s lots more.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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JUNE 1, 2018

A School License is a PDF of one grade level tech curriculum or keyboarding curriculum that can be installed on any digital device in your school–iPads, Chromebooks, laptops, library computers, classroom computers, 1:1, Google Classroom–you name it. As many installs as the school wants for one low fee.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 28, 2013

Recently, my district began a huge initiative to combat bullying/cyberbullying and to help students become more aware of the choices they make both in their face-to-face lives and their digital decisions as well. However, I do believe that the classroom and our schools are the places where tough conversations need to be had.

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JULY 8, 2016

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. You will actively collaborate, share knowledge, provide constructive feedback to classmates, publish digitally, and differentiate for needs. 2 tech ed eBooks. Click to join.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. I include Prezi, Google MapMaker, Scratch, Voice Thread, Glogster, and Tagxedo, These will be tools they don’t know how to use (and maybe you don’t either). Digital Citizenship. Write an Ebook.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. I include Prezi, Google MapMaker, Scratch, Voice Thread, Glogster, ScribbleMap, and Tagxedo, These will be tools they don’t know how to use (and maybe you don’t either). Digital Citizenship.

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JULY 22, 2015

Classrooms are infused with technology. You rarely see a lesson that doesn’t ask for online this or digital that. Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. Digital Citizenship. Multimedia projects.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Best of all, you can use these ideas to bring a past poroject of yours to the blended and eLearning classroom. The Blended and eLearning PBL Classroom… A Journey from Analog to Digital Project Based Learning. Students are great at digital collaboration! Thanks so much. Michael Gorman (mjgormans@gmail.com).

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JULY 27, 2018

Kiddom is an easy-to-use learning management system that provides educators with an effective alternative to Google Classroom. Their newest is the twenty-eight-page ISTE-aligned Change Management eBook. Build student-centered classrooms. Click here for my full review. Collect and assess data easily and quickly.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

million visitors to the 1,454 articles I’ve written on integrating technology into the classroom. They may be about how to use wikis or blogs in the classroom or what I’ve learned from my students as we got through another tech week. Digital Citizenship. Why use a Digital Portfolio–and 9 ways to do it.

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MARCH 6, 2017

They can be offered while parents are waiting for students to finish after-school activities, as a brown bag lunch program, or online during evenings or weekends via Google Hangout or Skype. Kick off the program with a poll (use an online platform like Google Forms or PollDaddy, one students use in class) to find out what time works best.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 18, 2017

Next, we took a look at Google’s “ Be Internet Awesome ” words. I want to revisit these words throughout the year and find ways that these current students are being digital leaders in our school. Our 5th grade classes all did this lesson at the same time in their classrooms.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

No matter the technology mix in the classroom, everyone shares the same user experience, with learning focused on the subject matter not the hardware, thus simplifying classroom management for the teacher. How to use PASCO devices in your classroom. They meet NGSS standards and work within Google Classroom and most LMSs.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

That was a relief because—as you probably know–using technology in the classroom can be frightening, whether you’re a grade-level teacher or in charge of the lab. You are usually on your own in the classroom, without tech experts to assist. Classroom Management (40). Google Apps (24). What if the computers break?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Write an Ebook. The goal during the after school tech club is that each student will publish their first ebook–or at least give it a good start. how to read ebooks from an iPad. Educational Links.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Unlike print books and many ebooks, PDFs can be marked up and then erased at the end of the school year. Using a PDF annotation tool like Kami for Chromebooks or Adobe Acrobat for pretty much any digital device, you can take notes throughout the year for review or reminders. PDFs can be annotated. PDFs don’t require a password.

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MAY 16, 2016

Write an Ebook. The goal during the after school tech club is that each student will publish their first ebook–or at least give it a good start. These are the individuals that will help each other to plan, write, and edit the ebook. how to digitize photos to use on phones/desktops/a slideshow. Educational links.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. They become the environment of your classroom, like the library corner and the math facts on the walls. See–simple.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. The teacher will not disappear from the classroom when students bring their devices to school. It’s really happening.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take time this summer to review them with you. You can purchase just the teacher manuals or student workbooks to serve a 1:1 environment, Google Classroom, and hybrid teaching situations.

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JULY 14, 2017

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

This powerful edition for schools has a variety of new tools and features that make learning more student focused, researching more user convenient, classrooms more globalized and teaching a lot more fun. . Microsoft knows that managing large classrooms can be tedious. Faceoff: What Digital Device Should My School Buy?

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