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3 Great Special Needs Digital Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Using the free app, students can tape a live lecture, a Skype call, an online webinar on their iPhone or iPad (or directly to the software), transfer it to their dashboard where they can transcribe, annotate, highlight, edit, format, add to, delete, or simply play it back for reference. – See more at: [link]. Insider tips.

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Best Math Apps For Kids

Fractus Learning

Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. Best Arcade-Style Math Game: Monster Math.

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How to use Sphero the Robot in STEM and Beyond – From Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

However, this past year my school received a robot grant that provided ten robots for us from the company Sphero. Sphero emphasizes the power of play in education and has a variety of lessons that are aligned to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards on their website.

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

Harry Moore School of NJCU recently received a grant from Sphero, a company that makes ball-size glowing robots that teachers can use to o teach literacy, coding, STEM. The demonstration teachers have been exploring the 15 different apps that can be used as games to expand academic concepts while reinforcing different skills.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

Remember that less than a decade ago, when the first iPhone was unveiled, it would have been impossible to conceive of a world ruled by tiny pocket computers that augment every part of our lives or to grasp the potential of a connected world 1.7 billion strong. Change your lens.

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3 Apps That Encourage Students to Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers and parents know all this and still, the Literacy Company reports that most teachers in classes of twenty+ students spend only five minutes a day reading, and 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine. Availability: 5/5 (iOS, Android, Web, iPhone, iPod, Chromebooks, Kindle Fire).

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. For a seventh-grade math unit on ratios and proportion, for example, the class opened a pretend catering company. The scores signified a high point for M.S. 442, teachers said.

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