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What do Parents Ask About Technology in Education?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are tips to help you protect your child while they’re online: Use Parental Control Software: Consider using parental control software or built-in parental control features on devices and platforms. Block and Report : Most social media platforms and websites have tools to block and report abusive users.

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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

Edsurge

Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights focus on the extent to which students, faculty and others can make full use of a college’s websites, education software and social media channels.

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Genius as an Alternative Social Media

ProfHacker

” That many academics rely on social media goes without saying. Yet, I am dissatisfied with my social media. Is there another option for social engagement that aligns with the unique needs, interests, and skill sets of academics? Of course, numerous apps targeted to academic audiences have sprung up.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Such digital resources might be adequate to meet the needs of a lecture-based course, where the inclusion of any audio-visual aids, be it audio clips, slides, or photographs, certainly constitutes an upgrade. An LMS is a proprietary, academic software platform that facilitates a host of interactive classroom support services.

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Actionable advice for school leaders on how to create an effective teacher training program

Neo LMS

Today’s classrooms have more devices, more educational software, more opportunities to differentiate learning based on various student needs, and educators are under more pressure to do more, preferably as fast as possible, with excellent results. Online courses offer almost endless possibilities.

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Secrets for Fun, Engaging Computer Science that Changes Kids Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses is today’s sponsor From now until September 28, Advancement Courses, an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorsChoose.org projects. Prior to teaching Alfred worked in the software industry for many years.