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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

5 – Technology and Students with Special Needs Students with special needs can thrive if you know how to use the tools to help them succeed. As a mother of children with learning differences, I have personally found a wide variety of tools (available by all subject areas) that have helped my own children learn via technology.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

In fact, we should use this technology to our advantage and add more ways that teachers and parents can work together face-to-face in helping every student succeed. If some parents don’t understand the technology you’re using in class, pool the conference slots and have groups of parents come in for personalized training.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

Pixel Press Floors - An amazing iOS app for Game Based Learning that allows students to create their own game by drawing. Stick Around - A great iPad app that can be used for Project Based Learning or Flipping a Lesson by creating puzzles/diagrams and having students label them. Teachley: Mt.

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Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

As Rodney Hargis tweeted , paraphrasing Spiderman, “[w]ith great data comes great responsibility” For a parallel I mentioned antiterrorism technologies, some of which also take data gathering to new heights (or depths). One example: eportfolios dropped in one case because doing them decently was seen as too onerous.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Student Entrepreneurship - Gaming in Ed - Google Summit Recordings

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

GBLNYC has over 500 members and hosts monthly events ranging from networking socials, educational game demonstrations, expert presentations, and game design workshops. Saturday, September 13th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Career Development Student Livebinders - Top 10 ePortfolio Livebinder Winner!

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Homeschool+ Conference - Mathbreakers - Creative Commons - Gender in Gaming

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tuesday, June 17th - Thursday, June 19th in Portland, OR NMC Summer Conference - Portland , The NMC Summer Conference is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting highly skilled professionals interested in the integration of emerging technologies into teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Why Do Gender Stereotypes Persist in Gaming?