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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

Blended learning and flipped classrooms. From virtual labs and games to digital textbooks and online curriculum, digital classrooms rely on video. Flipped Classroom. Video is a must for flipped classrooms. The source could be a teacher-created video, the Khan Academy , or other digital resources.

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Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing

MindShift

Facebook groups such as Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning or Online Teaching Tips for the Plague-Averse are great places to start. Global Online Academy (GOA) recently published an excellent comprehensive playbook that targets school leadership, but also has value for teachers. Leverage the Power of Community.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to YouTube

Graphite Blog

While a lot of YouTube videos still come from individual creators, or have more of a homespun feel, there are a host of long-established learning content creators -- like Khan Academy or Crash Course -- who got their starts on the platform. Flip your classroom. Is YouTube a social network? The best answer is.

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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers

TeachThought - Learn better.

Codea , Pythonista , Khan Academy. Code Academy, Hour of Code. WordPress, KidBlog, Google+, twitter, facebook, tumblr, start a YouTube channel. Sites/Apps: Khan Academy. Access Flipped Classroom Content. TouchCast , Shadow Puppet. Create animated gifs. Echograph , Flixel Cinemagraph.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom. Khan Academy. The Battle for “Open” What Counts “For Credit” The Business of Ed-tech. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Business of Ed-tech. The Maker Movement. Learning to Code. The Battle to Open Textbooks. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Politics of Ed-tech.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

Hack Education

Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. The Flipped Classroom. Khan Academy. Text-messaging.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley.

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