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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

In recent years, to support these outcomes, a growing number of forward-thinking states, districts, schools, and teachers have adopted technology in learning and strategies proven to be effective. Technology can enable deepened understanding and problem-solving, and support learning how to learn.

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5 Home and Smart Phone Filtering Options for Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. Why Do Students Need Protection on their SmartPhones? Mike Daugherty is a husband, father, author, technology director, Google Innovator, and possible Starbucks addict. Bio as submitted.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Number crunch: Edtech data you can use right now

eSchool News

The report cites evidence showing that learning benefits disappear if technology is used in excess or in the absence of a qualified teacher. Smartphones in schools have also proven to be a distraction to learning, yet fewer than a quarter of countries ban their use in schools. “We

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Why schools shouldn't ban smartphones

Learning with 'e's

I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Western Morning News earlier this week as a response to the comments from Ofsted and their advisers on the use of technology in schools. Many teachers are left wondering whether personal technologies such as smartphones actually have a place in education and what risks and threats accompany them.

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Here’s Why Teachers Adopt New Tech — and Why They Don’t

Edsurge

If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Can the tech support or provide a learning activity that can be classified within Bloom’s taxonomy? Even though the integration of the technology was “a little cumbersome” at first, her students’ level of engagement made the investment worthwhile.

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Connecting Parents to Student’s Digital Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

We recorded a show with Mike about Home filtering: 5 Home and Smartphone Filtering Options for Parents. Mike Daugherty is a husband, father, author, technology director, Google Innovator, and possible Starbucks addict. He has eighteen years of experience in K-12 technology support serving in a wide variety of roles.