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Create Google Slides comics to add some elements of fun to your lessons and enhance student engagement

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In English language arts and foreign language classes, students can create comics to summarize or retell the events of a narrative text by highlighting the main characters, setting, plot, etc. Sign up for a demo to learn why. Request a demo. in their comic strip.

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

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The tech giant began last year by pulling in more than 100 top-level education leaders for a daylong event demoing the tech. From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math.

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NEO will be at ISTE 2017!

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While students are looking forward to the summer vacation, the NEO team are looking forward to this year’s edition of the most comprehensive ed tech event in the world: ISTE Conference and Expo. This event attracts thousands of attendees from all over the world and their number is constantly growing.

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The Keyword Search Activity That Teaches Critical Thinking

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When visiting a classroom last year to lead a lesson on multimedia creations for a group of elementary school students, we tackled this issue together. You might think aloud as you pull up a current events article on your screen from a trusted source and point out a few reasons why you come back to this resource.

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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

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Third grade language arts – “Native American Stories” This elementary digital textbook has ten 80-minute lessons, which can be broken up to fit shorter class sessions. History” This introduction to United States history covers people, politics, events, ideas, economics, diplomacy, race, class and gender.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

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Investor pitch events are a dime a dozen, but no one does it with the flair and furor of Y Combinator. Now in its 25th Demo Day, the Silicon Valley accelerator has created a machine for turning fledgling ideas into businesses that get investors salivating—and writing checks. And neither is elementary-grade science.

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10 ways teachers can develop social and emotional skills for their learners

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You can start teaching these skills in elementary and continue developing social and emotional skills for high school students. Or they could discuss how a historical person may have felt during an event. Request a demo The post 10 ways teachers can develop social and emotional skills for their learners appeared first on Hapara.

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