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Why Students Are Better Prepared for Learning When Teachers Use Digital Tools in Their Instruction

Benchmark Education

Ever walk into a classroom: zero energy, apathetic students, slumped over, eyes glazed? Consider this fact: by the time students step into our kindergarten classrooms, their brains are already hardwired for digital learning. Digital Tools Bring Relevance to Instructional Material. No surprise!

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Ten Free Resources and Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this second post in a series devoted to supporting student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. In this post I wish to begin pointing out some tools and resources to help as an educator builds that students centered classroom. Blendspace. Google Lit Trips. Right Question Institute.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

It included our teachers’ instructional materials, organized lists of primary source portals, embedded ebook anthologies, document analysis tools, tools for organizing writing, documentation and remixing, On that guide also was a Google Custom Search Engine I created for searching across the most important of those portals.

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