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Top 10 Ways to Involve Parents by Using EdTech

EdTechTeam

If you use Google Classroom , you can have parents sign up for notifications (emails) about whether or not assignments have been completed by their child. You can post lessons, photos, calendar availability, link surveys using Google Forms, and much more. I am an advocate for building and nurturing relationships with families.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

Edsurge

You can find us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention? Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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Seven most effective ways for building relationships with students through social learning

Hapara

This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” You can share a Google Form with questions at the beginning of the school year or semester. Ask peers to interview each other and add responses to a shared Google Doc or Sheet.

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

TeachThought - Learn better.

And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Fines Google $5.1 ” The Google blog post announcing “ Course Kit ,” a tool that will integrate Google Drive with the LMS. Another invocation of Google Map s as a metaphor for student learning data in Edsurge. The Google Empire. Edtech Raises $739M in Venture Funding.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” Google had a big media to-do this week. “ Mattel and Google : a double standard for AI toys?”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition). This is how folks are defining innovative edtech use in teacher's colleges.

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