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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? Where did I turn? Classroom Use.

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7 Ways To Use Technology For Exam Prep

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Have students complete interactive activities and exercises online. There are a number of websites that offer interactive activities and exercises for students to complete in order to prepare for their exams. To help students prepare for exams, I also like to create digital study guides that can be accessed online.

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Kinesthetic Lessons in Empathy and Digital Citizenship

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Whether you are a library media specialist, a teacher of social studies, art history, ELA or any other discipline that incorporates art and photography as a teaching tool or element of content, building living tableaux — people posing to replicate a 2D image — is a classroom exercise that has so many learning benefits for students!

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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

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With all of these technologies populating classrooms this year, it is also more integral than ever that educators instill students with the tenets of digital citizenship. Digital Citizenship Remains a Priority. Learning Analytics Tools Provide Real-Time Feedback. STEAM Will Continue to Rise. Content Subtype. CDW Segment.

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100th Day of School — Make it about Learning

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Physical activities during winter often become calisthenics or personal fitness, exercises that can be done indoors or in the gym. Have students do ten sets of ten different exercises (i.e., Visit my @AskaTechTeacher Twitter feed and share your thoughts! the square root of 100 + 90. scholastic @flipgrid @history. Groundhog Day.

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Looking for Summer Activities? Try These

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My Twitter friends, folks like @mrhowardedu and @Coachadamspe , gave me great suggestions on books to read that I want to share with you… 5 Favorite Apps for Summer Learning. They are accustomed to cerebral challenges that keep them motivated and summer arrives with its sports, naps, and vacations.

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6 Unplugged Activities for Hour of Code

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Each topic variously includes unit plans, lesson plans, teaching videos, curriculum integration activities, printables, and programming exercises–all without a computer. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). Code HS Color By Pixel. CSEdWeek #hourofcode #hoc #edtech.

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