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Annie Marchion

Digital Kindergarten: 1:1 iPad use in Full Day Kindergarten - 0 views

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    Teacher blog about effective uses of a 1:1 iPad to child ratio!
Chris Ruether

Education Week: Schools Are Using Social Networking to Involve Parents - 0 views

  • This school year, the 1.1 million-student New York City system launched a new text-subscription service that notifies parents in English or Spanish of school news and a series of webinars on topics of relevance to parents. The 640,000-student Los Angeles school district hired its first-ever director of social media this past spring, whose main charge is communicating and sharing district information with parents and students via tools such as YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.
  • In the 182,000-student Fairfax County school system in Virginia, 84,500 people have subscribed to the district's enhanced news and information email and text service, the district's Facebook page has 26,000 "likes," and its Twitter account has 8,100 followers
  • digital technologies to improve communication between the school and parents
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  • has its teachers use Skype to run parent conferences and airs live and archived video of all parent and teacher association meetings for parents who are unable to attend. Recently, Mr. Mazza and some staff members even brought laptops into a local mosque that a number of the school's families attend, and streamed live footage there of one of the meetings
  • About 2,000 parents have already received training since the start of school this year, according to Kelly Cline, the senior manager of parent engagement for the Houston district.
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    This article talks about teaching the parents about how to use social media properly in order for them to stay up to date about many things in their children's lives. one example is using Skype to do parent teacher conferences. Also using high-quality digital content in the homes is allowing parents to once again help their students with homework.
Clara Gosselin

My 1:1 iPad Classroom Management Tools - 1 views

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    A great blog of how a teacher uses iPads and technology in her classroom. Specific apps and management skills to use while allowing kids to use the devices.
John DiDonna

L.A. Unified takes back iPads as $1-billion plan hits hurdles - 0 views

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    LA times article about LA school district that spend $1 billion on getting students ipads. The school district is now trying to get the ipads back, it has gotten 2/3 of the devices back.
Catherine Barrack

An Introduction to Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction - 0 views

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    A collection of YA Literature definitions from various professional sources.
Chris Ruether

social media in higher education - Google Scholar - 0 views

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    I couldn't bookmark the single article so I just bookmarked the webpage with all of them. The first article talks about the evolution of social media in the class room. It also talks about how the educators are attempting to adapt to the social media world their students live in.
Molly Hayden

No Child Left Untableted - 0 views

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    Article that interviews teachers and advocates for and against in-class tablet use. Looks at the pros and cons of tablet technology particularly in elementary schools. Looks into the ways technology in classrooms can negatively and positively affect student performance and student-teacher relationships.
lindsey crawford

Should laptops replace textbooks - 0 views

scholarly article http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=63608e70-d780-4a3c-8247-0799539f6779%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bth&AN=17193508

education technology classroom research

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