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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. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. But that list could take hours to preview.

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Learning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars

Educator Innovator

Our instructional design challenge was to think about how we might help students process the first chapters of an advanced text, “ The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why ” by Dr. Richard Nisbett. We also captured an archive of the Tweets with Storify and photos of the #toknisbett chat.

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22 Classroom-Focused Resources on AI from Teachers Everywhere

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. Let's talk about AI and figure out how to use it effectively.

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ISTE 2019: How Superintendents Can Lead Digital Transformation

EdTech Magazine

When former Vista Unified School District Superintendent Devin Vodicka sat down with students at Vista High School in California to hear how they would describe their school experience, he found there was a significant lack of engagement. “I JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued ISTE 2019 coverage.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every year, TpT holds a conference to share ideas with teacher-authors on how to build their stores, develop their platform, and make money off of their passion. Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving.

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4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

Assign logins and teach users how to construct strong passwords. Of course, users must have a phone that’s also locked down, but the consultant the district hires can educate users on how to use these two-factor systems safely. Just learning about how to apply appropriate patching routines can pay for itself. Content Subtype.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

They can collaborate on a group activity on an online chat, on Twitter, or on any platform you deem is the most appropriate for what they have to do. The first time I tried gamification with my students was during a seminar on green marketing and consumerism. The one-and-a half-hour seminar almost flew away. And now, story time!