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6 Ways Teacher-authors Protect Their Online Privacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you currently use a messaging app (iPhone’s native iMessage app or Facebook’s Messenger), stop doing that. To start, I downloaded the app to my smartphone and to my desktop. If you read spy novels, they often use Signal for their communication. Use Signal instead. Hotspot from your phone.

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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology

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Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. Parents love encouraging their kids to play with iPads and iPhones but it’s not their job to teach them how to do it right.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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The traditional classroom vs. paperless is like a cell phone vs. an iPhone. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. And then charge.

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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. Parents love encouraging their kids to play with iPads and iPhones but it’s not their job to teach them how to do it right.

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Fantastic Apps I Use Every Day

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve also added some of my favorite new productivity tools for my smartphone, iPad, and a few new ones for my Mac. My students can use their iPhones/iPads or computers to follow along and see the slides. Here are some digital citizenship hyperdocs you can use of mine. Pick one today to try with your students.

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9 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences

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Bring the latest version of Google Maps on your smartphone or iPad, complete with audio directions. All you do is tell it where you’re going, ask for directions, and Siri (the voice behind the iPhone) will lock into your GPS and hold your hand the entire way. iPad, Chromebook, Laptop, Netbook, or Smartphone. Any ideas?).

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Nearpodize Your Classroom with Your iPhone – From Sabba Quidwai

EdTechTeacher

Last week, they brought their interactive and dynamic tool to iPhone. At a time where the idea of a “phone” being used for teaching and learning still makes many uneasy, Nearpod created yet another avenue to show the value of using smartphones in the classroom as a means to enhance the learning experience for both teachers and students.

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