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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career

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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal. Additionally, consider the environmental impact of your tech choices.

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Subscriber Special: Special Add-on with School License

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A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License.

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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. Any age: Pit your math and technology skills against your child’s in an online math-based car race game like Grand Prix Multiplication. This doesn’t require a library. Science Any age: Investigate something scientific that intrigues you.

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9 Mistakes Teachers Make Using Tech in the Classroom

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It’s easy to confuse ‘using technology’ with digital tools. Some of your colleagues think having students read in this tablet format means they’re integrating technology into their curriculum. Technology tools populate like bacteria in a culture. You’re using technology on a class project.

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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.

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How to Keep Kids Safe

The CoolCatTeacher

In this episode, Shannon Mclintock -Miller and I discuss current best practices about digital citizenship and online safety for kids. If you’ve ever taught kids who have their own smartphones, you know how quickly social media problems can escalate at school. In 2014, Shannon was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker.

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What Is a Digital Whiteboard?

ViewSonic Education

Also referred to as a virtual or online whiteboard, a digital whiteboard is a software solution that replicates the functions of an analog whiteboard. Put simply, it’s a whiteboard you can use on a computer, smartphone, tablet, or any compatible electronic device. The digital whiteboard encourages applying diverse multimedia.

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