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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Are they in a Google doc or Google slide? From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. Or where are those?

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60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom. Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It also uses Google’s familiar template that many teachers have used for years. So below are (at least) 60 thing you can do with Google Classroom. 60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom.

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Improving the Education of Kids in Poverty and Other Helpful News

The CoolCatTeacher

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Expeditions is Possibly Coming to a School Near You. Cardboard with a smartphone inserted. “Earlier this year Google unveiled a new virtual reality program for schools. 10 Questioning Strategies to Differentiate Instruction | Minds in Bloom. Cool virtual reality tool.

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Clone Yourself with QR Codes

Learning in Hand

Easily providing recordings to your students means you can reteach concepts, differentiate instruction, give directions at centers, communicate with parents, and be heard and/or seen any time and any place. It uses Flash, so you can't record on tablets and smartphones. It can share to other apps, like Google Drive.

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Clone Yourself with QR Codes

Learning in Hand

Easily providing recordings to your students means you can reteach concepts, differentiate instruction, give directions at centers, communicate with parents, and be heard and/or seen any time and any place. It uses Flash, so you can't record on tablets and smartphones. It can share to other apps, like Google Drive.

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Here’s Why Teachers Adopt New Tech — and Why They Don’t

Edsurge

Tom told me he has always incorporated a higher than average level of technology into his instruction. He uses programs like Google Suites (a teacher favorite across the board), his Mobi interactive whiteboard and Vernier probes and software primarily because they all help him meet Next Generation Science Standards.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Google Apps for Education. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Services include Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, and more.