Why Should Schools go with Google Apps and Chromebooks?
Educational Technology Guy
MARCH 3, 2015
over 2400 school districts in the US use Google Apps. over 2400 school districts in the US use Google Apps.
Common Core Laptops Student Engagement 
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Digital Storytelling and Stories with the iPad
wwwatanabe
FEBRUARY 8, 2014
It is great differentiation for all students including ELL, gifted, and special needs. It increases student engagement in a meaningful and relevant task. Common Core Standards Many specific content standards can be addressed through digital stories. 21st Century Learning Common Core iPad Professional Development'
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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide
Edsurge
MARCH 6, 2017
There’s a campus greenhouse that provides students with locally grown vegetables and the opportunity to garden. The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. A growing body of research supports McClennen’s claims.
Three simple steps for creating lesson plans
Hapara
MAY 19, 2022
Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.
Classroom Gaming Should Be Engaging, Tied to Curriculum—and Not Require Teachers to Code
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
In addition, they are accessible to students using laptops or tablets in 1:1 or shared device environments. Teachers are also given access to a dashboard with tools to launch, pause, and resume games—as well as view the progress of each student in real time. Currently the games are only played in school.
The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2020
Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Again, students worked in groups. MESA, Ariz.
StoryBots launches interactive resources for teachers
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Books, videos, math games aim to boost student engagement. Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. JibJab Bros.
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