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Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Oh My! 4 Tools for Picting in the Classroom

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Approximately three out of every four tweens and teens are on some type of social media platform these days. Cathie Norris and ElliotSoloway, university professors studying how much time today’s youth spend with text-based materials vs. image-based materials, “ estimate that 90 percent of K-12 classroom time in the U.S.

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10 Killer iPad Projects Students Will Love #ISTE13

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Build Vocabulary - Skitch Ex: take pictures of real world objects and label fractions, get a pic off Internet of something you''ve been studying (Ex: peninsula); trace and annotate. Get Social - Edmodo, Twitter, Blogger - Example: @Emilydrocha posts what''s going on in her class via Twitter. 10 Projects: 1. Posted with Blogsy.

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A Guide for Bringing the SAMR Model to iPads

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Students are developing mapping, critical thinking, and problem solving skills through Mystery Skypes , completing collaborative writing through Kidblog , and connecting to the world through social media like Twitter. O ur school used QR codes and Augmented Reality to make our annual art show interactive.

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