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What Happens When Low-Income College Students Borrow Free Laptops?

Edsurge

When black students at the University of Michigan took to Twitter several years ago to critique campus policies and culture , one tweet in particular caught the attention of college administrators. The post ( perhaps one like this ) described how alienating and awkward it can feel for a student to show up to class without a laptop.

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Solving the curation equation: Efficient methods for collecting teaching resources

Neo LMS

What if you installed a bookmarking extension on your laptop, but there isn’t an app for your phone? If you consume lots of information from various sources, such as Twitter, Instagram, blogs, etc., It’s also nice to be able to add your own photos, PDFs, and documents, so you don’t have to hunt those down separately.

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Conceptboard - visual collaboration on ideas and documents

Educational Technology Guy

Conceptboard is a cloud-based service that works on PCs, laptops, tablets, and more. It is basically on online whiteboard that allows you to create, review and discuss ideas and concepts and you can even upload a document (PDF, PPT, Doc, images) and share, comment, and work on also. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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My Favorite 5 Tech Tools for Teacher-Authors

Ask a Tech Teacher

Whether you’re self-published or agented, you want your documents as clean as possible. I know lots of people who write the first draft of their documents with paper-and-pencil but almost always, the next version is completed on some sort of digital device. Here are five of my favorite tech tools for teacher-authors: 1.

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CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework

EdTech Magazine

JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued COSN 2019 coverage. In addition, curricula must include elements such as guidance documents, formative assessments at the lesson and unit level, annotated unit outlines and supplemental resources. . 3 Challenges of Digital Design for K–12 Classrooms. by Eli Zimmerman.

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GradeCam: The Teacher’s Friend for Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

A sponsored post by GradeCam From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can use the camera on your Chromebook or laptop, mobile phone or tablet, or document camera. Here’s what I love about inviting students to scan the document themselves — they get immediate feedback.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. School digital devices used to be primarily PCs, but now there are Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Surface Pros, laptops, and more. Digital portfolio sites. Devices you can use.

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