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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. On the one hand, we have more tools to choose from, and many services have gotten easier to use (think of the shift from wiki markup to Google Docs, or from separate video cameras and editing suites to all-in-one apps on smartphones).

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. Maybe because I’m a technology teacher, I can usually sort through this list pretty quickly. If you have a school or district license on the app, software, or webtool, skip this one. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school.

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4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

Based on what they told us, we deployed a new firewall, upgraded all the software applications in our system and set up the system so it would notify us of any suspicious traffic. IT people at school districts are typically stretched thin and don’t have time to attend workshops and seminars. Place Controls on the District’s Network.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. And they said, ‘the principals weren't trying to stop this teacher use of Google Docs.’

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. Video can interact with other technologies, too. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. There are thousands of online tools to streamline education delivery.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

I’ve seen this for decades in the ed tech space, commentators speaking or writing as if they’ve been the first to come across or reflect on a given technology or problem. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. For them of them I was on campus in a well-equipped classroom.