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Making the Most of Distance Learning: 7 Tips to Share with Parents

Digital Promise

Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. Technology can play a fundamental role in building and maintaining these relationships.

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Sora “Content Bundles” Feature Empowers Educators to Easily Reserve Digital Books for Specific Students

eSchool News

Content Bundles is the very feature we have been looking to implement in our Sora shared collection,” said Ken Zimmerman, Supervisor of Educational Technology at Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 in Pennsylvania. Create teacher-specific classroom libraries. Group digital books for topic or theme sets. Reserve titles for upper grade levels.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

Edsurge

The authors found that digital media has supplanted consumption of “legacy media” like books and magazines across racial and ethnic groups, gender, and socioeconomic status, so much so that “the percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016.”

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It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045

Shake Up Learning

Let’s take a deep-dive into meaningful technology integration supported by our favorite Google tools. I prefer to think of technology integration like a continuum where we progress from one end to the other. Most teachers begin by using technology at the substitution level, and that’s OKAY! Beyond the Tool with Research.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general. They’re amazing.

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JournalTOCs and other “pushy” scholarly tools

NeverEndingSearch

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. Microsoft Academic offers more that 150 million entities.

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. in the library as a research tool . as homework or independent reading.

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