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Finishing Strong by Taking Chances?

Tech Helpful

I want to share five things you might try in your classroom in these last weeks to take a chance on creating something valuable for the future (yours, your current students, and even your future students): Genius Hour or 20% Time.This is a creation of the Google Company themselves. What LMS does your district/school/coworker use?

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Educational "Air Time"

Tech Helpful

Needless to say, I'm trying to look at methods from a non-marginalizing approach and make the assumption that every teacher is trying their best to meet the needs of their classroom goals and individual students. That being said I am currently feeling a little overwhelmed with some things that have played out lately regarding academic roles.

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5 Innovative ways for teachers to connect with other teachers

Neo LMS

Collaboration is one of the most valued features of meeting with other teachers, and projects such as EdCamp have demonstrated how successful this informal style of unconference can be in inspiring and enabling teachers. 5 Innovative ways for teachers to connect with other teachers.

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Paperless Please

Hansen's Link to Tech

Sick of picking up paper handouts scattered throughout the school or classroom? Start creating a paperless classroom environment. Even if your classroom isn't a full blown 1:1 you still can limit your paper usage in a variety of ways. Wish your students were more attentive and engaged more often?

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A Framework for Blended PD (Part 2) – SULS072

Shake Up Learning

We want teachers actively engaged in solving the problems they face in the classroom. Our LMS platforms, like Google Classroom , would be perfect for this. Create a class in Google Classroom for each group. If you aren’t familiar with the Edcamp model, visit this page to learn more. We all learn by doing!

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. SHEG also offers two other fabulous portals filled with resources to help classroom teachers and teacher librarians inquiry and historical analysis. You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! .

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What Should First Year Teachers Know About Tech Integration?

Tech Helpful

For many of us in the chat we felt that new teachers are not necessarily entering the workforce equipped for a tech-rich classroom. Understanding the dynamics, classroom management and benefits of blended learning needs to be on the new teacher's radar. Classroom management skills for a tech-rich environment.