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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. Change education reform educational technology Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Opinion' He officially started Khan Academy in 2009 knowing that quality videos would withstand test of time.

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14 Tips For Helping Students With Limited Internet Have Distance Learning

MindShift

While there are plenty of best practice guides available for online learning, strategies for bridging the digital divide are scarce. . Check-in via Google Forms . You can also use a Google Form to ask students how they’re feeling and what support they need to succeed. . Schools can create a Google Drive.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision?

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How SAMR and Tech Can Help Teachers Truly Transform Assessment

Edsurge

This is evident in the way that Google Forms transform exit tickets by quickly and efficiently identifying areas of confusion, highlighting opportunities to dive in to the next day’s lesson. Socrative , Kahoot and TopHat , are great tools for augmenting assessment, especially in flipped classrooms.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The Flipped Classroom". Google Reader. Um, they do.)

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