Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the five best excuses for not using tech and share their edtech tips.
Articles of the Week
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SAMR – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything schrockguide.netKathy Schrock is the one person you’ll need if you only have one person in Ed Tech to go to.
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The student of 2024: two versions of campus life in 10 years’ time | The Irish Time – Sat, Feb 15, 2014 irishtimes.comWhen Kierkegaard said that, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,” I doubt that he had formal education in mind. Still, it is a useful quote to introduce a dichotomistic article that shows one author’s view of the best, or worst, to come.
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S: STUDENTS and Storytelling A: Awesome ASSESSMENT (Teacher-Driven and Student-Driven) S: SOCIAL (Voice and Collaboration) S: SEEK: Research and Visualization (Finding it, Citing it, and Displaying it) Y: YOU: Think about Your Own Thinking…
Tech Tips
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Hemingway hemingwayapp.comHemingway makes your writing bold and clear. Hemingway highlights long, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow highlight, shorten the sentence or split it. If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.
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The future needs fixing – sugru sugru.comSugru is the new self-setting rubber for fixing, modifying and improving your stuff. Over 500,000 people in 151 countries are using it to make their stuff work better.
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Doodle: easy scheduling doodle.comDoodle simplifies scheduling The scheduling tool you’ll actually use. Find a date for a meeting 2x faster
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