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Tech Tip #167–How to Evaluate Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: How to Evaluate Apps. Category: Pedagogy.

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Top 10 Benefits of Using YouTube in the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

The accessibility of free, high-quality, and instructional internet films, available on websites such as YouTube, is a natural complement to contemporary educational settings. Everyone—teachers, students, and parents—agrees that watching videos on the internet may be a practical learning and teaching tool. YouTube’s most prominent feature is that its videos may be helpful in many other kinds of educational systems, particularly online education.

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12 Great TED Ed Science Video Lessons for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Back to you with another handpicked list of TED Ed videos but this time the theme is science. most popular TED Ed science videos that you can use with your students in class. The Life Sciences section in TED Ed contains a huge collection of educational videos spanning various science topics. I used the search filter to locate those science videos with the most views and selected the collection below.

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Why E-rate is critical for school technology access

eSchool News

Every year, schools and libraries have access to billions of dollars of funding through the FCC’s E-rate program. Unfortunately, many don’t take advantage, oftentimes because of confusion over who is eligible and what services are available. In this post I’ll break down the importance of E-rate, how it works, and the types of technologies it makes available that are crucial to education.

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Enhancing Higher Education with Generative AI: A Responsible Guide

Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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Library 2.0 Webinar: "Patron Harassment Scenarios: What to Do as a Staffer and a Leader"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

"Patron Harassment Scenarios: What to Do as a Staffer and a Leader" Part of the Library 2.0 Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : Just because something is illegal and has been for a long time (1964, to be exact), doesn’t mean it has stopped happening. The passage of the Civil Rights Act started the necessary discussions and prevention processes to address sexual and racial harassment in many facets of our personal and professional lives, including the workplace.

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Dicho y Hecho: No Sooner Said Than Done

MindSpark

Dicho y Hecho What I love about “dicho y hecho” is the “y” (“and”), because saying it aloud means nothing without doing it. In fact, when it’s done, it’s simultaneously said. By Joshua Caraballo, PsyD As a cisgender male who currently identifies closely with my Puerto Rican background, this was not always the case. As a young child, my mother made the decision to not teach me Spanish, based on her experiences with being bullied in school for having an accent.

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Best Free Hispanic Heritage Month Lessons and Activities

techlearning

Celebrate Hispanic and Latino heritage.

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