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How to move your schools from AUPs to RUPs

eSchool News

Many districts are now supporting 1:1 device initiatives, giving students daily access to the internet and information through Chromebooks, iPads, and other smart devices. To the relief of the world, education has mostly returned to the classroom after the pandemic mandated distance and hybrid learning. Department of Education, 2016).

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Laser Cutters in the Classroom

Kathy Schrock

FLUX offers an Air Fume Extractor for the classroom so you would not need to vent it out a window.) USING BEAMO IN THE CLASSROOM There are many online resources that include tons of great ideas for the use of a laser cutter to support the curriculum and school community. I used a 4.5" square piece of ?" Want to find out more?

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7 Educational Transformations for Any Classroom

EdTechTeam

It’s an exciting time to be a teacher, and a student, with all of the newest gadgets, apps, and tools available for our use in the classroom. Seeing the student’s smiles, the teacher’s high level of engagement with the students, and trying new things together is what makes a classroom a special place. for more information.

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Repost: EPIC! Books free and very useful in context of telepractice

SpeechTechie

The app/ website offers features facilitating an engaging presentation of a book to a group of students via an iPad, including zoom in/out to page and "read to me" audio available for some books. For tips on interactive reading aloud, see here or here , as well as Jim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook and Jane Gebers' Books are for Talking, Too!

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How Co-Teaching Helped Our New Teachers Support Students, In-Person and Online

Edsurge

“I hope it works, I hope it works,” I muttered to myself as Tonja, the student teacher in our classroom, logged into Zoom to reach the remote learners in our class. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes.

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How to Use iBeacons in the Classroom – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

This technology, which works with iOS7 or iOS8 devices such as cell phones and iPads, allows students to react to pingable content that is presented in the classroom. When students walk into the school library, the screen of their iPad turns icy blue showing them that they are so far away from the iBeacon – that they are “cold”.

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The Solution is Hyperdocs

EdTechTeam

Along with the amazing experience and a newly formed tribe I returned home with a copy of The HyperDoc Handbook by Lisa Highfill , Kelly Hilton , and Sarah Landis. HyperDocs appealed to us because we work in a 1:1 iPad environment with movement towards a Project-based Learning mindset. I started reading the book on the flight home.