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Google Extends Digital Literacy Training to Teachers

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The tech giant’s Be Internet Awesome campaign now includes a free course for teachers.

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The 5-Year, $15 Million Global Learning XPRIZE Competition Is Over. Here’s Who Won.

Edsurge

But such was the length of time for finalists of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition before learning the winner of $10 million. First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills.

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Computer Science Teaching Tips

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Pretty much all of our freshmen take a course we call “Explorations in Computer Science.” Vicki: Wow!

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Chromebook or Tablet for the Classroom? Finding the Best of Both Worlds

EdTechTeam

Google Docs + Explore. Teaching research-based writing can feel like a high peak to summit, but Google is trying to make it simpler through the use of the explore tool in Google Docs. Game based Learning . Want to learn more about using Chromebooks in the Classroom ? Sign up at [link] .

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What Recreating School in Minecraft Can Teach About Reimagining Education

Edsurge

Also, if you use fast-building tools sometimes the software makes mistakes so most of the process of building is actually cleaning up the software’s mistakes. First you build the base, then you can just copy and paste that lower layer on top of one another. Isn’t that only giving you the base layout?

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Kasey Bell’s 8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides

The CoolCatTeacher

Kasey Bell teaches us eight great ways to use Google Slides. From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Kasey Bell’s Google Certification courses are open for enrollment from May 28 until June 10, 2018.

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

As one anecdote to consider, Kamenetz mentioned a new product, which provides surveillance software for K-12. The company making this software claimed as an achievement to have prevented three suicides by detecting self-harm signals through pupils’ digital activity. Q: Brett Boessen asked about Quest to Learn ?

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