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Good step by step on the new interactive options available for presentations in google slides that allow for audience backchannel and voting.

This is a free and fabulous template to encourage struggling readers and engage learners.

"For helpful directions on how to make an interactive slideshow, you may use my help guide "Creating Interactive Google Presentations" and see other related resources here on the Apps User Group site at: http://www.appsusergroup.org/presentations/interactive-pres "

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Learning how to use Drive, Sheets, Forms, Docs & Slides

56 different examples of formative assessments

Both the author of the article and the people she criticizes are making a fundamental mistake. It is an illusion that kids once learned facts in some deeper way. If the tree octopus had been presented in a book, the kids would have made the same mistake. Much of traditional teaching was not about absorbing certain facts but about learning techniques for accessing those facts. The internet and google really have changed the way we access information. The real challenge is how to restructure knowledge itself to take advantage of the new forms of accessibility. And as for using technology in the classroom: banning computers is like forcing kids to memorize arithmetic tables in an age when everyone has a calculator. We don't need slide rules nor an abacus and there is no reason to teach kids how to use them.

End of lesson task to allow pupils to reflect on how the lesson went via the medium of Emoji. Idea adapted from Twitter.

I like this idea and graphic. I made the graphic into and interactive Google Slide for students. http://www.edtechblog.org/news/emojiexitticket

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Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks. The textbooks across all subjects for six years of elementary school now total about 4,900 pages, and will go up to nearly 6,100.