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Must-Have EdTech Tools for a First-Year Teacher

Graphite Blog

Through videos, photos, text, and more, these digital portfolios provide evidence of students' learning for all stakeholders (including families) and strengthen school-home connections. Microsoft Teams. OER Commons. Every teacher should become familiar with open educational resources, or OERs. Classroom management.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Districts move to single sign-on solution

eSchool News

SchoolMessenger Passport allows districts to provide teachers, staff, parents and students with quick and secure access to online learning applications, open educational resources (OER), and a variety of school management and administration software programs using a single sign-on.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Blended Learning and Project Based Learning… Taking the PBL Gold Standards Online

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

There are new resources included that help educators explore PBL integrated with blended and online learning, including a few I have written for PBLWorks. OER Commons : ( [link] ) – Wonderful place to find lessons and blended learning ideas that can cover standards that fit into a PBL or just a single lesson.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.