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A parent-led effort to close the digital divide

The Hechinger Report

Two students who received laptops because of a parent-led effort to close the digital divide for Spanish-speaking families in Clark County, Nevada. Curious to know how many families in her community were still struggling, Gurr turned to a social media group she had started for Spanish-speaking parents for an answer.

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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. My students are also in a graduate program that teaches critical understanding of media. This made a great deal of sense.

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Celly Launches New Service and Android App for Building Mobile Social Networks

Educational Technology Guy

There is a full web console to control and monitor things and you can either create a Celly login or login with Facebook or Twitter. There are also many more features such as media links, notes and more. “We Cells are “social building blocks” that work for any group, event, place, or activity. or ‘what did I miss in class?’

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Meeting the Educational Challenges of COVID-19 Together

MIND Research Institute

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has put together some great resources around COVID-19, which you can find at casel.org/resources-covid. These resources include everything from guidance on how to talk with children about COVID-19, to using trauma-informed practices to support students.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Dan developed Prep, which is all about how to prep the machine in prompt prompted to get the desired output. You know, we all remember that teacher that study hall teacher who walked you through your first college application or the social studies teacher who taught you what taxes were and how to file them.

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Best Practices with Mobile Tech: #adjunctchat Tuesday, July 15

Connecting 2 the World

I am able to point to different resources or help students learn how to navigate through information, developing their information literacy, communication, and critical thinking skills. Using technology in the classroom also helps the instructor to give instant feedback as students work in class.

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Big Rich Mt. Olympus: Legendary Drama!

The Daring Librarian

But please, being mindful of our digital divide - always provide classroom time for those students who might have no access to the Interwebs at home) Students will be choosing their god or goddess through a random drawing (they will have 30 seconds to switch & trade) then they will research their divine being! Make is Social!