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Bake Professional Development into Your Education Pizza

EdTech Magazine

Bake Professional Development into Your Education Pizza. A colleague and I were talking about the best kinds of pizza and — believe it or not — it made me think of classroom technology. Professional Development Is the Foundation You Knead. Professional learning is the crust of your technology program.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided.

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10 Tips for teachers to make the most of ISTE

Neo LMS

Make sure you have your devices charged, whether it is your phone, tablet, laptop or all of them. You can take advantage of the various session formats available at ISTE, from classroom-like Listen and Learn sessions to more interactive ones like Participate and Share or even Engage and Connect ones. Besides that, you should: 5.

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Five Ways for Teachers to get Started on Twitter – From Jen Carey

EdTechTeacher

Let’s take Twitter as an example. If you’re unfamiliar with Twitter, it’s a microblogging platform. In the last few years, Twitter has emerged as a powerful platform for educators. In fact, teachers make up a significant amount of the traffic volume on Twitter , and roughly 25% of educators are users of the platform.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.

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How Tech Can Enrich Your Next Field Trip

The Web20Classroom

Devices like tablets and wearables don’t just enhance classroom learning—they can also transform field trips, making educational outings more interactive and memorable than before. And with tablets, smartwatches and virtual reality headsets in hand, a whole new avenue of learning opens up for our educators and students.

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What does the Effective Use of EdTech Look Like?

Tom Murray

After reviewing more than 70 recent research studies on the effective use of educational technology, Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond and her team at Stanford University were able to provide concrete examples of classroom environments in which technology has made a positive impact in the learning outcomes of at-risk students.

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