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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? This creates a potential cybersecurity gap: Greater adoption of connected tools provides enhanced student opportunity but requires increased oversight of how data is stored, managed and utilized.

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15 Plug-and-Play Lesson Plans from Google – SULS0198

Shake Up Learning

The post 15 Plug-and-Play Lesson Plans from Google – SULS0198 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I’m sharing 15 Plug-and-Play Lesson Plans from Google’s Applied Digital Skills program. Oh, and did I mention they have improved how these lessons integrate with Google Classroom?

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

To assist the professional development process for both teachers and IT professionals, Digital Promise, in conjunction with Google , has established a new program called the Dynamic Learning Project to help introduce new education technology into the classroom. . 5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers.

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

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. Google Masters for Kids of All Ages. What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools?

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Ozobot Classroom - STEAM learning management system coming this Fall

Educational Technology Guy

From there, educators can manage students and bots, access standards-aligned lesson recommendations, assign activities and digital badges, and use real-time insights into students’ online and offline activity to inform their teaching strategies. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

Edsurge

It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 For example, partnerships with scores of community colleges are central to Google’s approach.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

These will include tools like YouTube, podcasts, forums, discussion boards, Twitter and Google Hangouts (for those old enough), Google Slides and Google Draw, and a comic creator like Pixton. Test takers can receive digital badges and/or certificates when they pass assessments (probably at a Northstar testing location).