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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today we are sharing with you some web tools to help you grow professionally. Digital curation tools Digital curation has become an important skill for the 21st century learner. The sheer volume of data and information you come across online is overwhelming to say the least. These are probably the best you can ever find online.

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

Ask a Tech Teacher

Turnitin is the biggest and the oldest anti-plagiarism tool currently available. This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. Nevertheless, it’s not much of a tool that would suit teachers and their institutions. Which plagiarism checker is better than Turnitin?

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10 Online Tools That will Make Your Students Better Researchers By @anttooley

TeacherCast

Your students will seldom find all the information they need in one database. When they do have enough information, they then have to wade through hundreds of pages of obfuscating language that academics love to use to get a couple of pages of useful material. Here are 10 online tools you can recommend to give your students a boost.

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Will 'Publish or Perish' Become 'Clicks or Canned'? The Rise of Academic Social Networks

Edsurge

“The idea that some of these sites are for-profit raises questions about whether our work is really going to be available to the public, or if we’re doing it for free for a corporation,” says Fatima Espinoza Vasquez, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science. “It It also raises copyright issues.

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Inspire to learn

Learning with 'e's

I'm quite at home in this area of academia, and my thinking is shaped and informed by these disciplines, so I was delighted to be invited to speak. How might we harness the powerful potential of these tools and technologies to engage students more, and enhance learning in higher education? I'm not the only one.

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How a Partnership Over Annotation Software Fits Into Bigger Changes in Research Workflow

Edsurge

Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific journals, hasn’t been shy about shifting away from just publishing to offering a set of tools for scholars to use throughout the research process. Higher education leaders have been watching Elsevier’s overall strategy with caution—and some concern.

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7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Whether you are a student researcher, a budding scholar, or an established educator, these Google Scholar alternatives will empower you with the tools you need to enhance your research skills and improve your overall academic productivity. BASE allows you to run targeted searches and get academically relevant results.

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