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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Also remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much! Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). Quick Notes.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books. See my review of Book Creator for Chrome. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. I really got into that.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways. However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

EDTECH: When you talk about the “modern learning environment” in your book, what do you mean? SHENINGER: The modern learning environment is the combination of digital pedagogy, the latest technology and a changing learning environment. How does the technology actually improve on what we’ve done in the past?

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First Student Summit Grant in the Books!

EdTechTeam

During the years my students and I have produced a live technology support show and presented at hundreds of conferences. That work has culminated into a book that will be published soon. A helpful guide for anyone who needs it.

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How to Run a Parent Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

help them understand how technology supports the school’s mission and overarching curricula (such as Common Core or Everyday Math). She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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