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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

Neo LMS

So keep in mind that simple lessons such as: Creating Word documents. Starting a social media account. We simply need a greater stimulus, understanding and enthusiasm for digital tools – beyond what we read about in tech trend magazines – and work together to design digital solutions that fit our schools.

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6 Super Geeky Tech Tips for the New School Year

The Daring Librarian

(A version of this post was published in NEA Today Magazine - 5 Super Geeky Tips -So honored to have been invited to write again for them! Resources 6 Tips to a Super Twitter Profile How to Write a Professional Social Media Bio 4. When sharing on social media, remember to be passionate, positive, and always professional.

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It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045

Shake Up Learning

I think back to the days when we had to do all of our research in the library with index cards and the good old’ Dewey Decimal System. Google Books offers students a place to access and read books and magazines, cite sources, translate sources, and even set up alerts for specific topics. Beyond the Tool with Research.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

You can create professional presentations, posters, multi-page documents, marketing materials, social media graphics, and more (see the list below for education) using Canva’s more than 1 million photos, icons, and layouts, each with colors and fonts coordinated into attractive schema easily accessed by both beginners and reluctant designers.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.