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This a guest post from Christine Boyer (@5Boyer), a 5th grade teacher at Heathcote School in Scarsdale, NY, first appeared on Daily Genius. The saying, “If you build it, they […]
This article was first published in the May Edition of Educational Leadership from ASCD. Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. […]
This article first appeared on eSchoolNews. … I could start my workshops by showing teachers how to find and do everything. I could lead them through a step-by-step, do-what-I-do tutorial of […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to […]
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This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Providing access to more than just apps, Google Chromebooks are the perfect tool to build the foundation for technology success in young students. […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. As more schools go 1:1, teachers often feel challenged to make their traditional lessons and activities more interactive. One of my […]
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This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Google Art Project is one of my favorite tools available online. It is a repository of high resolution images and 3D “museum view” […]
This guest post from Summer Workshops Instructor, Suzy Brooks, first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Over the years, I have witnessed the power of social media and the draw […]
Back in December, Amy Burvall (@AmyBurval) created the video below about Exploring Critical Thinking with Visual Literacies. She stressed the need for students to develop visual literacy in addition to text decoding […]
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This post first appeared on Edutopia. Regularly, teachers tell me that they don’t feel as though they have time for project-based learning (PBL). While they like the idea in theory, […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Video has become a more ubiquitous element in education today: YouTube Videos, Kahn Academy, Flipped Content, iTunes U, and more. However, […]
This post first appeared on Diversa. Over the past few months, in a number of different contexts, an interesting question has presented itself. When teaching about the power of text-to-speech, […]
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This guest post post from Summer Workshop instructor, Brenda Doucette (@doucetteb), first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Recently, we discovered a feature of Google Drive that has changed how […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. How many of the above tools did you recognize? Do you know which ones are safe and which ones are harmful? […]
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This post first appeared on Daily Genius. One of my favorite Google Apps resources is Google Calendar. If your school has enrolled in Google Apps for Education, it is part […]
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This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Learning to read and write don’t have to be independent tasks with a new app called WriteReader, a literacy based learning […]
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This guest post from Anthony Peters (@apeters522), educator at Parklands College in Cape Town, first appeared on Daily Genius. Having completed the wondrous Romeo and Juliet text for Grade 9, […]
This guest post from Courtney Pepe (@iPadQueen2012) first appeared on Daily Genius. Jean Piaget once said that “play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” As educators in […]
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This guest post from Anthony Peters (@apeters522) first appeared on Daily Genius. Typically, concepts like nouns and parts of speech are thought of as terrible, tedious, and troublesome concepts that can lead […]
This guest post post from Summer Workshop instructor, Brenda Doucette (@doucetteb), first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Recently, some of our 6th graders came into the computer lab to […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. One of the most effective ways for Administrators to empower and encourage their faculty to use new and innovative tools is to model […]
This post first appeared at Inside Higher Ed. Tom Daccord and Justin Reich, founders of EdTechTeacher say it best, “Technology should be used in the service of learning.” It is with this philosophy in mind, […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. The Google Apps for Education suite includes a number of robust tools that can streamline administrative tasks. In addition to making your job […]
This post first appeared on MindShift. Helping students become networked learners begins by thinking carefully about where we conduct our online learning. Most online learning in higher education and in […]
Dr. Damian Bebell, assistant research professor at the Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Data kicked off the afternoon. He is a researcher and not a practitioner, so he […]
Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE)and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP), kicked off the 2015 Leading Future Learning […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Two schools are both alike in dignity. Part of our story takes place in Jersey City, NJ while the other part takes place […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. I have been a huge fan of Diigo for quite some time. Unlike other social bookmarking sites, Diigo allows me to […]
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This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Introducing a new technology into the learning environment can be an intimidating experience, even for seasoned educators. However, with careful and intentional planning […]
What does the 21st Century classroom look like? That’s the question educators and exhibitors asked this week at the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in San Diego, California. TIME FOR KIDS exhibited […]
This post first appeared on Edutopia. Recently, I wrote about the transformation of libraries from archives of resources to active learning commons that encourage exploration, creation, and collaboration. However, in […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. One of the most ubiquitous tools in educational technology today is Google Drive. If you’re unfamiliar with Drive, think of it as two […]
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Douglas Kiang is both a member of the EdTechTeacher instructional team as well as teaches computer science and heads the technology resource teachers group at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. He holds […]
Welcome to the 2nd annual EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in San Diego! Over 500 educators from around the world have joined together to explore the potential and possibilities for iPads in […]
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This post first appeared on Daily Genius. Google has become one of the most popular tools in schools today. With its broad and flexible system of apps, there are many […]
This is a guest post from iPad Summit San Diego featured presenter, Dr. Reshan Richards (@ReshanRichards). It first appeared on EdTechResearcher. I have recently been writing about the qualitative formative assessment […]
This post first appeared on Daily Genius. In 2014, Chromebooks surpassed iPads in the world of education. There are a variety of reasons for this: economic needs, more “laptop like” […]
This post first appeared on eSchool News. Too often, we see teachers putting the proverbial cart before the horse. They find an app or tool they like, so they introduce […]
Whether you spent the week buried under snow or in sunny places like San Diego where we have our upcoming iPad Summit. This week we had many new resources from webinars […]
This guest post from Gregg Russell (@greggrussell12) first appeared on EdTechResearcher. The other night, David Bowie’s epic tune Changes, came blasting over the radio. As I was singing along to […]
This guest post from iPad Summit San Diego presenter, Rhoda Hahn (@mrshahn), first appeared on Daily Genius. Long gone are the days of students reading textbooks, memorizing, and regurgitating information. […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. I am a big fan of the Google Cultural Institute; it’s an amazing repository of Artistic Masterpieces, Wonders of the Natural […]
This post first appeared on Patrick’s blog – Learning in Burlington. As a school district that has implemented a 1:1 initiative where every student is provided an iPad, we get […]
This guest post from Bart Buckinx (@bartbuckinx) first appeared on Daily Genius. As a teacher, you are used to create your own lessons. The xerox, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint are your […]
This post first appeared on Edutopia. From tablets and scrolls to bound books, libraries have cataloged resources and served as a locus of knowledge. Today, they are reinventing themselves as content becomes […]
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This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. With Chromebooks being adopted as the 1:1 tool of choice in schools throughout the country, it is helpful to note that […]