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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Things like calculators, spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and other data analytics software are all useful in getting learners to test techniques like hypotheses and regression analysis and make predictions. Using web-based technologies, teachers can invite experts in mathematics to share their knowledge with the class.

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Google Adds New Classroom Features. Use Them Responsibly.

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Google has added some new features to Classroom. Soon you’ll be able to keep your students focused by creating locked quizzes using Google Forms while in Classroom. It’s fairly easy for kids to “cheat” while asking them to complete online Google Forms and other types of digital assessments. Do a quick Google search.

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Top 5 Plagiarism Checkers for Students and Teachers in 2023

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For example, PlagScan allows users to upload academic papers, publications, and sources to the database. Quality of Support These five plagiarism checkers offer customer support through email and comprehensive knowledge bases and FAQ sections on their websites to help users troubleshoot issues independently.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

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It is well known that individuals construct new knowledge based on what they already know, that they learn differently from one another, and that they learn best when they are asked to perform appropriately challenging tasks. Supporting authentic, real-world learning.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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Because this is digital, it can be emailed or uploaded to a location in the cloud such as Google Classroom or OneDrive. This blends typing skills with real-world examples of why they learn to keyboard. If you Google “cyberbully movies “, you will get a long list or find some here to get started. Practice Keyboarding.

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How NOT to Assess Student Writing

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Writing is no longer treated as a stand-alone skill, rather a tool students use to provide evidence of their knowledge. These skills are part of their knowledge base for word processing. Do they always use one word processing program like Word, but their online writing requires another, like Google Docs? formatting.

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Teachers As Researchers: The Power of Mindset

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I used to make changes in my classroom based on intuition - I just know what my students need - but found that intuition alone wasn’t enough to truly spark student learning. That quest to prove the effectiveness of my own practice started my interest in finding “research-based” teaching practices.

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