Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The best digital tools for the classroom are the ones that provide an easy interface, facilitate collaborations, simplify communication between students and teachers, offer quick analytics for administrators, and are cost-efficient. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. Moreover, the platform is free for teachers.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Last year, Digital Promise, with generous support from Google, launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) to continue its effort to close the Digital Learning Gap. Rather than sitting in a PD seminar all day, instructional coaching provides support relevant to the teacher’s specific classroom and content. “If Active Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And we also checked in with an administrator at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who assigns the show in a first-year seminar she leads. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. When I'm in the classroom, they can look at me like here, right here.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page. During a visit to a science class in Paradise, Calif., That’s a good assumption.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

What it is: Flipgrid is a video discussion platform for your classroom that lets you engage and capture learning in new and awesome ways. How to integrate Flipgrid into your classroom: Flipgrid is a great way to get your students reflecting on learning, collaborating, and providing peer feedback.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich: When I was a high school history teacher, I was relatively early in the United States to have a classroom that was one-to-one with wireless laptops with the internet. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Awesome Feedback Tools for the Classroom Click To Tweet Listen to this article. 13 Awesome Feedback Tools for the Classroom To begin her session, Susan asked the 25 teachers who joined her to discuss how it feels as a student to receive feedback, and then how, as a teacher, it feels when we hear feedback from an administrator.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There are plenty of reasons and ways to use edtech with students in the classroom, but what about edtech for teachers? Observing the veteran teacher down the hall effectively facilitating Socratic seminars helps new teachers see and hear what success looks like. Edtech for teachers bridges the gaps to more collaboration.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

Google conference sessions will focus on leadership, preparing students for the future, and digital empowerment. Google for Education will host a free online conference about leading for the future and shaping the modern classroom. Next page: An outline of conference sessions and focus areas.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 24, 2017

How can you lead your teachers or colleagues to promote inventiveness in the classroom? Invent Iowa, started in 1987, was created to help teachers promote the invention process in their classrooms as well as allow students to showcase their inventions at state and local conventions. How can I get investors?” “How

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District Administration

JULY 9, 2015

District Administration, August 2015 At the Challenge to Excellence Charter School (C2E) in Parker, Colorado, educators are using tablets and Google tools in surprising ways to foster creativity, collaboration and content creation in grades K-3, while also establishing a foundation of knowledge-seeking skills that students will use in later grades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

For leaders like Daniel-Hardy, the introduction of generative AI to the teaching-learning process “feels different,” even though they’ve seen multiple waves of disruptive technology circle in and out through classrooms. They use ChatGPT like Google, introducing a new search with every query, unrelated to the previous query.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. Textbooks used to be de rigueur in a classroom. More Chromebooks than iPads.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 19, 2013

This is a story about Sister Libraries, Twitter, Google+ Hangout, and connecting kids! She had been inspired by a Tweet she had seen about sister classrooms started between @ heisereads and @ brianwyzlic - you know, like sister cities? we finally got our kiddos to meet and chat using Google+ Hangout! Great for summer reading!

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

In structured Socratic Seminars , students in the outer circle communicate via TodaysMeet, while those in the inner circle speak aloud. Here is a transcript of a Socratic Seminar on Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men. Google Hangouts One of my go-to Google guys, Troy Cockrum , told me to not be afraid to Hangout by myself, and he was right.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 20, 2016

I always felt a renewed sense of passion about teaching after attending a workshop or seminar. Once technology started to become more prevalent in education, like many other teachers, I started to attend workshops about utilizing technology in the classroom to augment student learning. Take Good Notes. Pick One or Two Big Takeaways.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2010

Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. Parents want and need to hear the great things happening in our buildings and classrooms. Set up a separate phone number for parents using Google Voice (idea via Scott Elias ). Invite parents into your classrooms/schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Usually at this time of year we love walking through our classrooms, seeing students creating digital artwork, plotting their growth toward mastery and collaborating with friends—but today, our campus stands mostly empty.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. For them of them I was on campus in a well-equipped classroom. Together we used other software for more synthetic work: Google Jamboard, Google Docs, Miro, etc. Some students met in that fine classroom while others were remote, like me.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Although Gordon longed to go back to the classroom, “I could do hybrid because I can see that students can benefit from a hybrid model,” she said. In addition to using technology to enhance classes and seminars, colleges can use it more broadly to address traditional problems like student preparation, degree completion and transition to jobs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Turnout was so high that the team created “ We’re Better Together Wednesdays ,” a virtual weekly seminar for families to understand more about topics they’ve expressed most interest in, including using Google Classroom and Zoom, and overcoming anxiety during COVID-19.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 6, 2015

20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking. This is a student-centered approach to pedagogy (and heautagogy), and will consist of four parts: Part 1: Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking. Can how you setup your classroom impact how students think? Desks are a staple of the ‘modern’ classroom as we know it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2018

When they’re younger, even when the child doesn’t quite get that social stigma yet, with those threes and fours that I’ve said I’ve seen this in their classroom, they don’t necessarily get the social stigma quite yet, for most of them. And yet we prominently display these behavior charts in our classroom. It’s viewing it differently.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s often quite difficult for me to make my rounds between both buildings, while working with 250+ staff (this also includes nurses, administrative assistants, and even security personnel when the task so chooses) as well as being available to join teachers in their classroom to work with students. Send out a Google Form for ideas.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Google Ngram. Google has created a database of all published works dating back to 1500, though the default search is from 1800 (they seem to have added formal speeches as well.) And how did Google get ALL the published works? ”. Google Trends. All are extremely easy to use and have a broad variety of applications.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. I created a first-year seminar for my incoming freshmen called, “Pleased to Tweet You. I always had to breakdown classroom walls and do things collaboratively. So there is a classroom in Scotland.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

This philosophy challenges the old classroom dynamic where teachers were holders of information and students would wait for permission to learn. Many of the strategies I now use with my tech leaders are adaptations from my own experiences in the classroom. I learned so much and networked with so many educators who I greatly admire.

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ignitionEDU

MAY 21, 2016

Here is where you might run into me over the next couple of months: North Alabama Featuring Google for Education – June 2 & 3, Florence, AL (Presenting: Gobs of Goodies from Google; BreakoutEDU). LSS Technology Session – June 8 (Presenting: Hands on with Google Drawings).

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

Central to the initiative is the idea that learning is not restricted to the classroom. With this legislation, credits will be awarded to learners based on performance rather than how much time they spend in a particular classroom. High schoolers work on their plans once a week during Seminar, a 15-minute daily advisory period.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 30, 2015

It’s called GAFE Talk , and it features Google Apps for Education! Below are five reasons to attend GAFE Talk : 1 - FREE Event Did I mention the GAFE Talk seminar is completely FREE? Using Google Apps for Education can empower teachers and students. Need I say more??? Register here to attend on April 9th. Are you ready?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Just how do humans learn? EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

OCTOBER 14, 2012

While this isn''t a new technique, there are key components mentioned in the video that are applicable for any classroom. The Socratic Seminar or fishbowl discussion begins with the layout of the classroom and the assigning of roles to students. They kept track of the conversation on a collaborative Google Doc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

The second option is to go through a course with a cohort and attend weekly live video seminars and get assignments graded (for about $200 per course). Because Codecademy has no expensive classroom space and is fully online, he says, “from the start our business was designed to scale.”

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2018

Kirr, like most teachers, can think of a lot of structural problems influencing her classroom, but she decided to focus on something she could control: reading. As she explored this problem in the McIntosh seminar, Kirr stumbled across the concept of Genius Hour , a teaching tactic based on a practice at Google, that many teachers are trying.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. But notably, a cohesive opposition movement has failed to materialize, in part because research on its impact in the classroom has generally been positive (or at least neutral ). Flipped OS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 14, 2024

Craddock has conducted seminars at the White House, the Bay Area MakerFaire, and South Carolina Association of School Libraries. Building the highly successful TechConnect program, Dr. McNeil has established partnerships with Apple, Spotify, Google, and Microsoft to name a few. is the librarian at the Community Lab Schools.

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