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How to Keep Learning Fresh Over the Summer

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Kids will love having a valid reason to use Mom’s smartphone camera. Make an audio recording of your thoughts (using a mobile app like Audio Memo ). This doesn’t require a library. These aren’t print–these are digital, on an iPad, a desktop, or a mobile device.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Here are the digital tools that will replace the paper-intensive tasks you’re accustomed to: Digital Note-taking Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. And then charge.

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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps

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Wouldn’t you love to experiment with 5G on your smartphone or play with Samsung’s foldable phone? With the App Inventor program from MIT, students use block-based tools to build apps on a smartphone. These include Hello Codi, TalkToMe I and I I (Text-to-speech app), Ball Bounce Game, and Digital Doodle (a drawing app).

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Tech That Won’t Survive 2018

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Today, smartphones and tablets are cheaper than ever; moreover, their prices are going to decrease which means that desktop computers, as well as computer labs, are about to become extinct in schools. More so, today’s education prioritizes mobile devices which don’t have the ability to read these mediums. Desktop Computers.

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Vector Solutions Adds Silent Panic Alarm Feature to its LiveSafe Tip Reporting and Safety Communications Platform for Schools

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The law requires schools to implement mobile panic alarms that go directly to law enforcement in case of immediate emergencies such as an active shooter situation. Vector LiveSafe is an advanced tip reporting and safety communication platform for organizations, including schools.

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19 Ways Students Keep Learning Fresh Over the Summer

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Kids will love having a valid reason to use Mom’s smartphone camera. Make an audio recording of your thoughts (using a mobile app like Audio Memo ). Optionally, you might take pictures of the historic piece, add it to a mobile app like Sonic Pics and then add voice notes to explain what the viewer is seeing.

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

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If you do end up going the digital route, be sure to check out this Common Sense article: The Best Digital Library Apps for Students. As a teacher, you can also consider doing some of your own action research in your classroom: Compare your class's comprehension with print vs. digital texts.