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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

“I worked as an administrator for 10 years, so I think about edtech from both sides — both how an administrator makes decisions about edtech tools, but also how we can support our teachers,” Ballard shared in a focus group that was part of a larger project designed to better understand the gap between teaching practices and technology use.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Google Classroom-2014. Many of those technologies support collaboration. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Clever-2012.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

edWeb.net

Once these types of factors are thought through, applications like Google Data Studio can speed up the creation of customized reports through the use of menus, drop-down lists, and drag-and-drop features, while also providing color and font choices that make the data easier and faster for recipients to review and put to good use.

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10 Reasons Why I ?EdTechTeam Summits

EdTechTeam

Before I start confessing my love for EdTechTeam Summits I have to be transparent with you and declare that my only affiliation with EdTechTeam is simply this blog, which I write for exclusively to share my passion for Google at no charge nor any sort of employment or financial contract. And here are 10 reasons why….

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Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning?

Edsurge

Some were activities that I created through Google Classroom or Google Forms, and others were from websites such as ReadWorks and BetterLesson. I collaborated with my local colleagues and those in my virtual PLC (professional learning community) to develop and add to the resource bank I already had.

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Global forces

Learning with 'e's

More recent theorists such as George Siemens and Stephen Downes propose a version of connectivism that describes the many ways we can tap into the huge potential of distributed cognition as and when required through personal and professional learning networks.

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

Technology can enhance the structure and requirements of the program by enabling students to do more. In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Technology is also able to support the 4Cs of education (Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity and Collaboration). Education.com,” n.d.)

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