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3 Creative Teaching Resources That Save You Time and Money

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Here’s how you can leverage digital solutions to maximize both time and cost efficiency: Google Classroom: This app is a powerhouse for streamlining assignments, boosting collaboration, and facilitating communication between students and teachers. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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6 Creative back-to-school activities for teachers

Neo LMS

With the use of learning stations, for example, where students can work with peers, or through digital tools such as Flip for speaking, Google Jamboard for brainstorming ideas, or Spaces for engaging in collaborative learning activities like scavenger hunts, we can promote collaboration. Icebreakers and building relationships.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Augmentation: Technology not only replaces a traditional tool but adds functionality, e.g. using Google Earth to explore the setting of a story rather than a map. e.g. using virtual meeting tools (like Google Hangouts) to include housebound students in a class.

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Subscribers: Your February Special is Available

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Digital citizenship I. Digital citizenship II. Digital note-taking. Gamification of education. Google Search and research. Assessment. Class exit tickets. Class warm-ups. Differentiation—general. Differentiation—How to teach the hard-to-teach class. Grading Technology. Inquiry in the Classroom.

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How to vet edtech tools to promote success at school for all learners

Hapara

Gamification option . For younger learners, look for a type of reward between assignments or a gamification piece. Workspace allows them to upload Google Docs and Slides, video and audio files. . . Grow digital citizenship . Typical note-taking tools (highlighter, strike-through, sticky notes).

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Your Device Rollout Isn’t About Hardware—It’s About Engagement

Edsurge

Without one, schools and districts run the risk of missing out on many of the potential benefits that having devices in the classroom can unlock, such as introducing personalized learning, teaching digital citizenship and giving students access to the myriad of apps and tools available online. Engagement in the classroom matters.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They failed and tried again. Asked questions. They are inquirers.