Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. I’d hazard that most anyone who has worked in the education and technology arena for any length of time has had to navigate conflict of interest issues. More on this below.).

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly. I think the latter."

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The reasons why teachers use technology in their classroom are simple. However, it’s not easy to set up a digital classroom by yourself. In this post, I’ll show you how you can create a digital classroom, using Google Classroom and BookWidgets. Using Google Classroom has some pretty great advantages.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The increased availability of cheap and fast technology goes hand in hand with this. New Learning Platforms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. By fifth grade, students appreciate technology for how it can speed up their class projects and seek out ways to use it to make their educational journey easier. Coding with pixel art.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 18, 2017

Unlike other platforms, our tools are designed to put learners at the heart of learning, empowering them to create their own study resources or find what they need in our vast library of user-created resources covering every topic imaginable. Tagged: classroom technology , edtech , education , learning , teaching , tech , tech tool.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 12, 2021

Classroom reading bulletin boards and library book displays are excellent resources teachers can use to encourage kids to start reading. We compiled a list of the best reading bulletin boards teachers can use in their classrooms from K-5, middle school, and high school. We also added some excellent library bulletin board ideas.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 10, 2024

In my 4th grade classroom, a focus of my Math curriculum each year is the standard algorithm for double-digit multiplication and long division. I have a standard algorithm to start each day in my classroom. Next, I switch on the library lamp, and then the smartboard. Here’s what I mean.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. International Children’s Digital Library. There is one bright spot in this story: Online books.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. By fifth grade, students appreciate technology for how it can speed up their class projects and seek out ways to use it to make their educational journey easier. Coding with pixel art.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2016

Gale’s photo contest highlights the role of local libraries in leveraging technology. Libraries are often the go-to technology centers in local communities and on campuses. To better tell that story, Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is calling all libraries to participate in the My Library Pic contest.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The goal of summative assessments is to make a judgment of student competency after an instructional phase is complete tags : assessment , favorite The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library tags : mathematics , favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Mandy Froehlich talks about a tool she uses in her classroom, Flipsnack. Mandy Froehlich on episode 192 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how she uses this tool. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. In the humanities, where pots of money tend to be smaller than in the sciences, a little can go a long way. It’s often not just the size of the grant but who’s giving it that matters.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of how people learn—both what works and what doesn’t go so well—in the classroom. One person pushing to put learning science into practice on college campuses is Sanjay Sarma, vice president for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That's an intentional experiment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today! Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

You create a group for your topic, come up with a strand tag for your topic / group, encourage your audience (and/or others) to join learningrevolution.com and to submit topic-specific presentation proposals. Welcome to day 2 of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference, Tuesday, April 7th. Today's sessions are below.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 9, 2018

The technology giants of the world have found ways so that the average person can create their own AR and VR worlds with very little training or gear. The post 5 Augmented and Virtual Reality Creation Tools for Students appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 5 Augmented and Virtual Reality Creation Tools for Students. CoSpaces and Merge Cube.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 26, 2020

Welcome to the Monday, April 27th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The day's sessions are below. Log into LearningRevolution.com and click on Schedule in the main menu to see the session times and direct links for attending live. To see all sessions submitted so far, and to correspond with presenters, click here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2020

Educational Instructional Technology + M.Ed. Welcome to the Thursday, April 23rd edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The day's sessions are below. Log into LearningRevolution.com and click on Schedule in the main menu to see the session times and direct links for attending live.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2016

Common Sense Education, a nonprofit organization that reviews and rates education apps, games and websites, today introduced the NGSS Explorer, an intuitive and quick search tool for teachers to discover digital STEM and STEAM resources for their science and math classrooms.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The kits at the time were only being sold by BestBuy in the states and were tagged at a really high price for education. The phones that fit into the VR headsets and the rugged Pelican case to carry all of the materials in brought the price tag way up. This was an awe inspiring experience for both our students and staff.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 2, 2019

The post Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach – SULS019 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you a tech coach, instructional coach, or something in between? Maybe you dream of one day being a coach? Ready to learn the top 10 secrets of being an awesome tech coach? This episode is for YOU! The Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach!

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Think of BreakoutEDU as an escape room game for your classroom, aligned with your learning goals. Gamifying” our classrooms is a buzzword that seems to be flying around the education world these days. When I talk about games in the classroom, I am not referring to online learning drill programs (or a.k.a

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

But then his teacher added, “He’s always tinkering with the computers in our classroom.”. At the time, I was in the process of developing a program called “The Tech Pipeline” that allowed local, fast-growing technology companies to connect with prospective talent in the community through our schools. Clearly, there was a disconnect.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

I wanted to ensure that each of the boxes got checked on the kids’ schoolwork, including the optional ones for music, the library and social/emotional content. While I have always wanted to be a parent, I've never wanted to homeschool my kids. At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” What does learning look like in the library? What are the real impacts of our libraries?

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

HyperDocs are perfect opportunities to grow teacher librarian/ classroom teacher partnerships. According to the HyperDocs site , HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

It was initially inspired by a blog post that I came across on Problogger titled, “Let Me Show You Inside a Secret Blogging Alliance.” ” Of course, any time I heard the word “alliance,” this moment from The Office immediately came to mind (clearly a blog title too good to ignore). That was it. Humble beginnings.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. This past week, because of their hard work, this book has been published through Amazon. It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. What follows is: The Book Description. The Basics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

WEDNESDAY'S SHOWS (July 22) : 10:00 AM - The Connected Classroom with Rusty May - "Creating A Climate of Trust & Support" with Guest Josh St. We welcome your participation and perspective as the mics are always open in the Connected Classroom. We have four Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" took the week off).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In a digital world, images are everything–and that goes for the classroom, too. Images that you can use to design, produce, create, and publish for the authentic project-based learning happening in your classroom? BROWSABILITY: Search box, categories & tags. 31 Sources Of Royalty-Free Images. by TeachThought Staff.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

It was initially inspired by a blog post that I came across on Problogger titled, “Let Me Show You Inside a Secret Blogging Alliance.” ” Of course, any time I heard the word “alliance,” this moment from The Office immediately came to mind (clearly a blog title too good to ignore). That was it. Humble beginnings.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 27th, 2014 The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

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