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Guest post: 15 EdTech Resources to Use in Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

In addition to video content that you can watch through online streaming, you’ll also find digital textbooks for science, math, and social studies. You’ll find videos that explain concepts from science, math, social studies, English language arts, and more. It’s easy to connect with other educators through Facebook or LinkedIn.

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Unleash Student Creativity Through the Power of Video

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Contemporary storytelling is increasingly video-focused (just look at your Facebook feed), which leads to an obvious conclusion: kids should learn how to make their own films. Educators around the world use video to teach kids about everything from robots to rainforests. If given the right tools, kids can create masterpieces.

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The Ed-Tech Imaginary

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Mrs. Brainmocker, young Elroy Jetson's robot teacher (who, one must presume by her title, was a married robot teacher), appeared in just one episode — the very last one of the show's original run in 1963. An updated version of the AutoTutor was displayed at the World's Fair in 1964, one year after The Jetsons episode aired.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” says James Koch in a NYT op-ed , criticizing schools spending money on lavish amenities. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. That student data is big bucks?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Study Shows Choices Are Slim.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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