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To Develop Future-Ready Students, Project-Based Lessons Teach Real World Skills

Edsurge

In the course of adapting many of our curricular resources to fit teachers’ changing needs, we have distilled a robust collection of skills into lessons we believe will help teachers foster social-emotional learning, and in doing so develop future-ready students. Are your students future ready? said no teacher ever.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

A quick scan of the EdTech Top 40 – Fall 22 Report reveals that teachers in the United States used almost 148 digital tools, while students used nearly 143 digital tools in the school year 2021–22. For this article, we scoured thousands of reputable digital tools to bring you the best digital tools for future-ready classrooms in 2022.

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Josh Stumpenhorst’s Learning Commons: Drones, Literature, and Creativity

The CoolCatTeacher

Owl Eyes has hundreds of free ebooks — the Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey, and all of Shakespeare’s work. But Owl Eyes isn’t just an ebook reader. And so I could spend my time running my reports of how many books I have out, how many fines I’ve got to find, you know, to track the kids down. Josh: Yeah, and you’re exactly right.

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New guide offers ed-tech purchasing insight

eSchool News

LearnBop, a web-based interactive K-12 math learning system, has released a free eBook, The Administrator’s Guide to EdTech Purchasing , created in partnership with Superintendent John Carver of the Howard-Winneshiek district in Cresco, Iowa. This eBook is a big step toward correcting that.”.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” And to provide more digital content beyond OERs, the government launched the Open eBooks app back in February 2016. corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Each collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more! ” Library Technology Reports 50.7 What’s curation? Curation is a funny word. Designs Collaborative Spaces.

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Comments Section : Students examine a post from a newspaper comment section and explain whether they would use it in a research report.