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Welcome! - 2 views

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    Formative wants to encourage students to learn from feedback and corrections. teachers can watch in real time as students answer questions and can go in to give assistance.This allows students to feel that they are receiving one-to-one attention. It also offers way for teachers to provide personalized comments outside the classroom. The tool with Maths and Science focused subjects..
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15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer) | Edutopia - 3 views

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    "Every student in every school at every level should be taught how to code. They need this skill not because they'll all go into it as a career but because it impacts on every career in the 21st-century world. Any country recognizing that will benefit in the long term." There is an annotated list of resources that can be used to teach programming to every student at any age.
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8 Good Android Science Apps for Elementary Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile... - 2 views

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    Th9s is a list of useful tools if you are using Android devices with students in class. It is a collection of science apps curated specifically for elementary students. When using these apps, young learners will get to explore and learn about different science topics in fun, engaging and challenging ways.
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The Ultimate EdTech Chart for Teachers and Educators ~ Educational Technology and Mobil... - 7 views

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    This list features a number of key websites and online resources arranged into different learning area categories. Not all areas are covered. The purpose is to provide teachers with a repository of EdTech websites that can potentially help them with the teaching their classes.
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Control Alt Achieve: 30 Free Google Drawings Graphic Organizers - 2 views

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    You have been able to create graphic organizers with Google Drawings. for a while. Graphic organizers are a great tool to share information, explain a concept, or illustrate a relationship using elements including images, shapes, text, colors, and connecting lines. They are useful in education over a wide range of year levels and learning ares. There are many useful tools for creating graphic organizers and teachers should investigate them to see which ones best fit their needs. This post explains how to use Google Drawings, with directions on how to create graphic organizers using this tool. It includes a help guide and a recorded webinar as well as 30 free sample graphic organizers that you can copy, use, and modify as needed.
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CS Teaching Tips: A project funded by the NSF (Grant # 1339404) - 3 views

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    10 posters with Teaching Tips for teaching Computer Science focussing on a number of areas including reducing bias, assessment, seeking help, pair programming, scratch and more
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Top 16 Tech Tools to Try in 2016 - edutechchick - 18 views

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    "Edtech continues to evolve and grow, with new players entering the ring all the time. It can be hard to keep up with, particularly when so many of the tools may accomplish the same end goal." Some suggestions here that are woth looking at to see if they meet your needs.
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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Wearables for Learning! Oh My! - Teacher Reboot ... - 7 views

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    "Students can experience new cultures, history, and understand the world in better ways with virtual reality, augmented reality, and wearables. Teachers are using these technologies to send learners on virtual field trips or getting students to keep track of their steps, cardio, and health with fitness bands. These technologies help engage learners by providing sensory learning and sparking curiosity and imagination. For your next classes, go beyond getting students to read and learn only from worksheets and books. Integrate virtual reality, augmented reality, or wearables to create meaningful learning experiments for students. This post has a slide presentation (free to download) followed by bookmarks filled with activities and resources."
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The Heart of Digital Citizenship | Anne Collier | TEDxGeneva - YouTube - 1 views

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    Bullying & harassment online? Empower youth to make the Internet better! This YouTube video published on 16 Jun 2016. "Digital citizenship is an intriguing but still very abstract idea with a dark past and great potential. A journalist who has followed youth Internet safety and citizenship for nearly 20 years, Anne Collier looks at what digital citizenship is, the struggle it emerged from, and five ways adult society can make it engaging and useful to young citizens, the heart of any digital citizenship discussion about youth. [There ia a link to the research references in her talk: http://www.netfamilynews.org/tedxgene...]"
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 201 6 | Cult of Pedagogy - 3 views

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    "An up-dated list. Each of these tools can make teaching more efficient and effective, and student learning deeper and more engaging."
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Soundtrap - Make music online - 4 views

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    Soundtrap allows you to make music online, from any device, with your own instruments or the virtual ones on the site. The free version offers 5 projects, many loops, instruments and sounds as well as other features. It works on Mac, Windows, iPad, Android tablets and phones, Linux and Chromebooks. It allows you to start, edit and collaborate on your recordings and, being cloud-based, wherever you are. You can collaborate with others and share your music on Facebook, Twitter and SoundCloud, as well as Spotify and iTunes. You can sign in with Office 365, Google, Facebook or an email account. There are premium options with more features and fewer limits.
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Teachers Digital Skills Chart ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 7 views

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    The chart features some 21st century digital skills that every teacher should be familiar with. For each of these skills they have come up with a collection of web tools that can help develop such skills "
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Arduino or Raspberry Pi: Making The Right Choice For Your Project | YourSpot - 0 views

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    Good comparison piece explaining the strengths of both . "Arduino and Raspberry Pi are two different boards designed for different applications. The choice of using one completely depends on the type of project one is trying to make or the amount of knowledge one has of electronic components and software languages. "
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Using Scratch in the Curriculum · TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Networ... - 5 views

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    "In this episode, Jeff sits down with Kasia Chmielinski to learn how Scratch is being used in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages.  Join Jeff, Rob Pennington, Kevin Donatello, and Sam Patterson as we dive into the Hour of Code and Beyond on TeacherCast Podcast 124."
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The secret to successful use of technology in the classroom - ICTEvangelist - 2 views

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    "In order to get impact with technology in the classroom, for me it's really quite simple and involves three easy to remember elements; technology for learning shouldn't be about bells and whistles, it's about what works"
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use the New Version of Padlet - 1 views

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    Richard Byrne exlainshow teachers can make the best use of the 2016 version of Padlet. "Padlet introduced a revamped version of their online corkboard tool. The core functions of Padlet are still the same, but the user interface has changed a little bit. The primary changes are in the way that you customize your Padlet boards. In the video that is embedded in the posthe provides an overview of this version of Padlet"
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Technology Addiction Research Executive Summary | Common Sense Media - 4 views

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    "The executive summary of our research brief Technology Addiction: Concern, Controversy, and Finding Balance highlights the six key findings from the report; presents findings from a poll of over 1,200 parents and teens examining how families feel about their mobile device use and how that use is affecting child-parent relationships; and offers advice for creating balance in this "always connected" world."
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How Game-Based Learning Can Help Students of All Ages Learn | Edudemic - 6 views

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    Game-based learning offers an approach where learning and play aren't at odds with each other; in fact, games are the vehicle and environment for learning.
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Create Time-stamped Multimedia Notes on Your Android Device | Android 4 Schools - 1 views

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    This looks to be a promising app for ome of the students i work with who have difficulties with text but very good auditory and thinking skills.
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