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K–12 Districts Find Interactive Flat Panels a Key Tool for Teacher-Driven Learning

EdTech Magazine

After rolling out Promethean ActivPanel interactive whiteboards and document cameras in 600 of the classrooms at Albemarle County Public Schools, teachers reported an increased excitement for learning. The difference was immediate.

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Q&A: Melissa Lim on Embracing Change and Tech During Distance Learning

EdTech Magazine

When describing how her school district is handling remote learning, Melissa Lim uses a word some might find unusual: opportunities. It’s well documented that public schools across the country still are wrangling with challenges of remote learning — everything from securing devices to engaging students online.

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ISTELive 23: How Can Professional Development Narrow the Digital Divide?

EdTech Magazine

Six years ago, the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology called up on “all involved in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning experiences enabled by technology.” In that document, policymakers expressed…

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Are We Teaching Enough Civics in Schools?

Ask a Tech Teacher

One of the becoming-forgotten subjects I have begun to fear is Civics so I loved this article from Commonwealth Magazine on how this understanding our our form of government in America is not forgotten, in fact taught well: Mass. Primary Source Documents. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Constitution.

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12 Tech Tasks To End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Clean out your documents. Sort through the documents you collected this year and get rid of those you don’t need anymore. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. Learn it or lose it. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Sometimes, they seem to turn off by themselves (I have no idea why).

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Some Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

You can create as many binders as you want and in these online binders you can combine all of your cloud documents, website links and upload your desktop documents - then easily access, share, and update your binders from anywhere. Flipboard lets you save web content such as videos, images, articles, etc into magazine style boards.

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How to Quickly Create, Send, & Translate a Parent Newsletter

Teacher Reboot Camp

If you aren’t familiar with using Google then this might take some time investment at the beginning, but trust me learning to use Google Suites and Apps is the best teacher time and sanity saver! You can learn how to use Google and earn your professional development classes by taking online classes with Edtechnology Specialists !

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