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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We All content is stored in Google docs. Research – Search engines such as Google , Sweet Search , Wolfram Alpha. Record – Google Docs , Diigo , Evernote , Microsoft 360. Incorporate Digital Citizenship.

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How to Run a Parent Class

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They can be offered while parents are waiting for students to finish after-school activities, as a brown bag lunch program, or online during evenings or weekends via Google Hangout or Skype. Kick off the program with a poll (use an online platform like Google Forms or PollDaddy, one students use in class) to find out what time works best.

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Building Good Relationships with Your Students’ Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike Daugherty Director of Technology, Ohio Mike Daugherty is a husband, father, author, technology director, Google Innovator, and possible Starbucks addict. He has eighteen years of experience in K-12 technology support serving in a wide variety of roles.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

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" Pressing play on the YouTube video will set third-party cookies controlled by Google if you are logged in to Chrome. See Google's cookie information for details. Digital media and technology are increasingly a part of our lives, but it's important that we're conscious of the media choices we're making.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

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Take a class of thirty students, tell them they are going to learn how to type only by using it in searches on google and creating reports in Microsoft Office. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Having said that, Integrated Learning by itself has its own pitfalls.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Google Classroom-2014. Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events.

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

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or: 80% of 5th graders can complete ten skills in MS Word (or Google Docs). But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It’s the pencils and books of our digital world. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.