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Tools for Designing Awesome Graphics

Teacher Reboot Camp

I’ve learned to use free web tools to design headers on different social networks, graphics for books and digital badges, banners, flyers, parent newsletters, programs, digital magazines, book covers, logos, and more! The fonts are amazing as well as the images, icons, frames, and color schemes.

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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

EdTech Magazine

This fall, Microsoft Education is rolling out new features on Teams and OneNote that support social-emotional learning. Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

EdTech Magazine

This fall, Microsoft Education is rolling out new features on Teams and OneNote that support social-emotional learning. Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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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. .

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

The APS Digital Badge Program: The APS Digital Badge Program uses microcredentials to describe student success across five key areas: collaboration, critical thinking, information literacy, invention and self-direction. Here, accessibility matters. Who has access to this technology? For what purpose?

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Instead, there are clever ways to use games to engage and enthuse students in learning. Calling it a game may be a stretch, but users learn about art and artists by engaging the app. Teachers Learn Something, Too. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun.

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Learning and Playing and Why Both Matter for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children – and the way they do this is by playing.” Playing was taking my bicycle apart, putting Legos together, and learning as many facts about cars as I could.

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