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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

Khan is the creator of Khan Academy. He began his keynote by sharing a video montage of Khan Academy highlights and then presenting some impressive statistics on usage. The catalyst for Khan Academy began some years ago with a Yahoo doodle Sal developed to help a family member with her struggles in math.

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7 Ways To Use Technology For Exam Prep

Ask a Tech Teacher

Some of my favorite places to find these resources are Quizlet , Khan Academy , and even YouTube. First, they allow students to access content on the go, helping them to study outside of the classroom or while commuting to and from school. His main mission is to make the classroom innovative and students motivated.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. With these big picture stats and stories coming from the classroom, teachers need advice on helping students develop reading stamina. Is reading stamina a need in today's classroom? Have a great classroom library. in Your Classroom Now.

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10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Khan Academy. Get students started on Khan Academy, the revolutionary online math program, with accounts and an understanding of how it works. Check out Khan Academy’s website.

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Flipping.It's Not Just For The Classroom

The Web20Classroom

But overall the biggest topic that people wanted to talk about was Flipping the classroom. In is simplest form, flipping is the idea that instead of the teaching of basic skills in the classroom, those skills are acquired outside the classroom, mostly through the form of videos. What is flipping? I am very skeptical of flipping.

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Looking for Summer Activities? Try These

Ask a Tech Teacher

Since I covered a mixture of books in a past article , many on pedagogy, this time, I decided to concentrate on content that could facilely move from my reading chair into the classroom. Khan Academy. I came up with six. See what you think: 10 Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer–2019 edition. Write an ebook.

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11 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Khan Academy. Get students started on Khan Academy, the revolutionary online math program, with accounts and an understanding of how it works. Check out Khan Academy’s website.