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10 Edtech Tools to Try in 2018

EdTech4Beginners

Students can combine text, images, audio, and video to create: Interactive stories. Digital portfolios. Research journals. Poetry books. Science reports. Instruction manuals. ‘About me’ books. Comic adventures. It’s also an app perfect for teachers. INSERTLEARNING. Illumination.

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Create and share story time and read-aloud videos

eSchool News

Reporting requirements – Penguin Random House asks that all educators, librarians, and booksellers please complete this form in order to receive approval from Penguin Random House. and delete it. See screenshot for how to delete a live video from YouTube after it has concluded.

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How to Run a Parent Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

show how to log into the school online grade reports. demonstrate how to use the school online library/lunch order system . As you teach, use tools their children use in class such as a timer, digital note-taking, a digital portfolio, annotation tool, Google Classroom or Edmodo, Google Forms, or others.

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

Edsurge

Career Karma According to Course Report, there are nearly 600 coding bootcamps in existence. The platform recommends activities best suited for each group, and after each lesson, the students complete an exit ticket and report on how they felt about the lesson and what they learned.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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D.E.A.R. – Drop Everything and Reflect

Reading By Example

If a student is done with a book, they could write a book review (instead of a book report) for the classroom or school library. A learning management system such as Edmodo could be utilized to develop online book clubs around a title, series, or author if students wanted to discuss their reading beyond independent reading time.

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

an LMS like Edmodo, Otus, or MyBigCampus–these often include an interactive gradebook, parent inclusion devices, a student discussion forum, polls, a way to collect and share resources, a class calendar, and access across a variety of digital devices. The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress.

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