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12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - 4 views

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The Android and iOS apps let students (and teachers) do this from virtually anywhere. In fact, you can literally do it anywhere considering there is an ‘offline mode’ for Google Drive so you don’t even need a web connection to keep your online collaboration document or project humming along.
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The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps.
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  There are a ton of add-ons for Drive that can create really cool looking mind maps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/mind%20maps I've used Lucid Chart (http://bit.ly/1oa2drr) and Coggle (http://bit.ly/SvoMYO). Really. Cool. Stuff.
  
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To Advance Education, We Must First Reimagine Society | MindShift - 0 views

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Your Kid's Brain Might Benefit From an Extra Year in Middle School - 1 views

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as a teacher who has spent much of her career in the middle-school trenches, I wonder whether the solution to slow development lies in granting an extra year to a precious few or in redeveloping curricula to focus more on executive-function skills
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Would love to hear thoughts from teachers and parents who have experience with the advantages and disadvantages of retention in middle school.

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Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 1 views

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Stop Holding Us Back - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Is Coding the New Literacy? | Mother Jones - 1 views

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A List of Twitter Educators by Subject Area | Teacher Tech - 0 views

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New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play | Enterprise | WIRED - 0 views

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In fact, Levin says TeacherGaming is working on its own mod building education program called ComputerCraftEdu, which will eventually be offered both online and in-person. And there are already a few other classes that teach students to create mods, such as MakersFactory’s class in Santa Cruz and YouthDigital’s online class. But most of these other classes require students to write code in a programming language called Java. And Java can be cumbersome.
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Text 2 Mind Map - Simple mind mapping online - 1 views

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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Good Online Tools for Creating Infographics - 2 views

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Resource to find books and share reading experiences with your network

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Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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RESOURCES FOR INFOGRAPHICS - Google Docs - 0 views

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Explore Shakespeare on the App Store on iTunes - 1 views

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Great App for teaching Shakespeare. Visual Representations!!

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