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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1

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13 apps that promote higher-order thinking standards

eSchool News

Collins Big Cat Books apps appear to be simple read-aloud picture books with beautiful animated pictures and sound effects. However, each one has a ‘Read by Myself’ option enabling the reader to read aloud and record their voice.

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#6: 13 apps that promote higher-order thinking standards

eSchool News

Collins Big Cat Books apps appear to be simple read-aloud picture books with beautiful animated pictures and sound effects. However, each one has a ‘Read by Myself’ option enabling the reader to read aloud and record their voice.

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How the latest ed-tech developments will impact teaching and learning

eSchool News

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. A bigger annual cap isn’t the only recent change to the E-rate program.

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‘Why Am I Just Learning About This?’ In New College Board Offering, Students Explore the African Diaspora

Edsurge

The African diaspora is not taught as a standalone Advanced Placement course, but rather as a theme in AP Seminar through which students learn about real-world issues while developing skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, research and presentation. By the end of the year, “they can view the world differently.

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10 Tips for Teachers who Struggle with Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

Now, all teachers are expected to have students work, collaborate, research, and publish online. Try the problem-solving that has worked in other situations–like intuit a solution, look around the screen and see what pops out, and read the manual. You won’t break the computer. –appeared first on TeachHUB.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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Physicists well educated in physics, and trained for research in that discipline; English professors learned in their language and its literature (or at least some tiny corner of it); and so on down the list of the disciplines. But we find no one with a professional knowledge of the laws of learning, or of the techniques of applying them.”

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