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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. Videos Some students grasp ideas better when delivered in video form.

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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. A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. There’s a reason why this Invention project is a Google-free zone. Today’s students have come to depend upon Google as an external brain of sorts. The focus was on learning.

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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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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

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This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication. Because this is digital, it can be emailed or uploaded to a location in the cloud such as Google Classroom or OneDrive. Cyber-bullying. How to search.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

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It combines Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide delightful tools to discuss class topics, create quizzes, deliver training, engage in live chat, design projects, and widen kids’ knowledge base. Prezi is a great digital tool for creating eye-catching presentations and videos.

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How NOT to Assess Student Writing

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Whether that’s paper-and-pencil or word processing, audio, comics, or video, the goal is to communicate ideas. 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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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. Digital curriculum offers videos, games, and simulations that support multiple ways to learn new material.

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