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September 2015

3 Tech Platforms for Students to Practice Speaking Foreign Languages

September 30, 2015

Image source These Tech Tools can Help Fill the Void in Foreign Language Learning - Practicing Speaking the Language! Are you a student who is struggling to learn a foreign language? Or maybe you’re a teacher who teaches foreign languages? Every teacher knows that students who want to get up to speed on a new […]

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Good Tools for Teaching Students How to Evaluate Web Content Credibility

September 29, 2015

Source: Butler University Library, adapted from Meriam Library at CSU, Chico What are Your Favorite Tools and Techniques for Helping Students Learn how to Assess Web Content? One of my favorite lessons to teach is about evaluating the credibility of web sites and other digital content. I often start by showing the classic “Can’t Lie […]

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Constructive Use of the iPad in the Humanities Classroom – One Teacher’s Experience

September 28, 2015

Josh Herring will be presenting the session “The iPad in the Humanities Classroom: One Teacher’s Journey from Skepticism to Appreciation” at the 2015 Teaching and Learning with the iPad Conference this November. Come join Josh and hundreds of other passionate educators at the original iPad educational conference November 12th – 14th in Raleigh, NC! Technological Skepticism […]

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Digital Learning Tweet Wrap for the Week Ending 09-26-15

September 27, 2015

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … understanding the difference between Projects and Project Based Learning, sort TED-Ed lessons by grade level, win a 3D printer for your school, getting reluctant writers […]

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A New “3 Minute Teaching With Tech Tutorial” Introducing Microsoft’s Compelling New SNIP Tool

September 24, 2015

Create Video Lessons in Minutes by Annotating Screen Snips with this Free Windows App Microsoft appears to have taken a page from Google’s playbook, encouraging employees to “turn their wild ideas into real projects” and calling the effort Microsoft Garage. Makes sense to me - all organizations should make room and opportunity for innovation. One […]

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SeeSaw - Easily Capture K-12 Student Learning in any Form

September 23, 2015

“My students are so excited to upload their work to their portfolio and receive comments and feedback from their peers, parents, and teacher all within a safe environment.” Tama Trotti will be presenting the session “SeeSaw - A Digital Portfolio Management System” at the 2015 Teaching and Learning with the iPad Conference this November. Come […]

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6 Common Misconceptions About Cognitive Assessments (and why Technology-Enabled Assessments Offer a Practical Solution)

September 22, 2015

Efficiently Measure Student’s Cognitive Strengths and Weaknesses and use This Information to Enable More Effective Teaching and Learning Despite all the talk about technology revolutionizing personalized learning, it still feels quite elusive and impractical to most educators. Even the most adaptive platforms don’t take into account that students need different approaches, not just more practice. […]

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Learning About Fire Safety is Fun With Sparky the Firedog

September 21, 2015

With National Fire Prevention Week (Oct 4 - 10) almost here, the NFPA is doing their best to make learning about fire safety fun for kids! Thanks to Sparky the Firedog and lots of creative tools and resources, helping young students learn how to prevent fires and stay safe is easy and enjoyable. The latest […]

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Weekly EdTech and Teaching Tweet Post Wrap for 09-19-15

September 20, 2015

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … meaningful ways to use Twitter in the classroom, checking out the new U.S. college scorecard, explore the Jurassic period or fly through space with new […]

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Education Technology Thought Leader Interview: SMART Technologies CTO Warren Barkley

September 17, 2015

As the Chief Technology Officer of SMART Technologies, there is no doubt that Warren Barkley is a busy man. He has been writing blog posts and posting on social media (as I think today’s CXOs should be :)) in addition to his other work and life responsibilities, including 4 children. I want to thank Warren […]

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