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Subscriber Special: K-5 New Teacher Survival Kit

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It includes K-5 tech curriculum (including problem solving, productivity software, critical thinking, share/publish, mouse skills, image editing, Google Earth, Photoshop, web tools, and more), keyboarding and digital citizenship curricula, classroom posters, pedagogic articles on tech ed topics, tips and tricks, and more.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

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With the pride of place iPads and Chromebooks have in curriculum decisions, tech problems will be wide-ranging, everything from a student’s device not having required software to the classroom systems not hooking up to the school’s network or WiFi. Google the problem. It doesn’t stop with the teacher, either.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. I start this in 1st grade, when students have used both software and online tools and likely don’t realize they’re completely different tools.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. What You Get.

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How AI is Changing Writing: Check out Robot Don

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One of these writing assistants is Robot Don, an AI-driven software which we are going to discuss in this article. The most important feature that Robot Don blesses us with is that it’s a browser-based software which means you don’t have to download any installation files and use it on a limited number of devices.

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Why Should Schools go with Google Apps and Chromebooks?

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I''m a huge fan and user of Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks and have written about them at length here. Here is a generic version of what I presented as reasons why my district should Go Google that you can use in your own school/district. Chromebooks for Education [link] What is Google Apps for Education?