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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Maybe even a new way to present information to the learners every time. 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.

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Best Apps for College Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Word Processing and Document Collaboration: Google Docs : Known for its simplicity and real-time collaboration features. It’s cloud-based, making it accessible from any device, and integrates seamlessly with other Google services. Dropbox : Another excellent choice for cloud storage.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

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But what I haven’t seen is kids Googling anything to help them with this project. Cathy Rubin in her Global Search for Education has posed these questions in my inbox for this month’s global search for education column: “ What should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for everything?”

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Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers

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National Science Teaching Association The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) offers an extensive knowledge base for science educators. You can use search engines, like Google, to search for case studies you need for your class. So, no matter the field of study, you will find a relevant case in the Harvard collection.

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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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169 Tech Tip #151: 8 Popular Year-long Assessments

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If they don’t understand a term, expect them to use readily-available digital vocabulary tools (right-click tools, a resident dictionary program, and/or a dictionary browser app or extension like the Google Dictionary Chrome extension) during literacy classes to decode unknown words. You can find her resources at Structured 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. If you Google “cyberbully movies “, you will get a long list or find some here to get started. This is a free technology curriculum for Middle/High School and adults from Google.