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Why Single Sign-On Has Teachers Cheering

Edsurge

Sheryl Abshire: A lot of people think I’m all about technology. But my job and my prime objective are to support learning, and this technology supports learning. They should also work with the vendor community on your behalf to ensure the software you use works with SSO. That’s been my motivation.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Take a class of thirty students, tell them they are going to learn how to type only by using it in searches on google and creating reports in Microsoft Office. Having said that, Integrated Learning by itself has its own pitfalls. That is an obvious comparison but there is a better one to be made.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It isn’t particularly good reasoning but it is the sort of reasoning that has come about due to ICT skills in many cases being defined by their output, such as writing a report or creating a slideshow, rather than the underpinning skills such as typing or point-and-click being articulated.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

Edsurge

Instructional technology provides course content, as well as assessment mechanisms and opportunities for students to practice and apply the material. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance. One common form of student support technology provides round-the-clock remote access to academic tutors.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

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All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

Feedback: One teacher in Northern California told my team that when her class started using personalized learning software, her students were “just click, click, clicking away.” So much of today’s educational technology supports students in mastering new skills and standards, but few tools facilitate inquiry- or project-based learning.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Tools to build eBooks to demonstrate understanding.

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