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Applied Digital Skills from Google is a free curriculum based on tech skills
Source: Free Technology Curriculum from Google – Applied Digital Skills Applied Digital Skills is a free website by Google that offers technology lessons for staff and students (middle school and older). There are tons of lessons available online to help you or your students learn new skills. When I use online lessons like this, I…
Using edtech not to measure, but to make students better
With the Common Core’s emphasis on data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus on using technology to deliver content and collect data rather than cultivate learning and stimulate cognitive development.Using education technology isn’t so much about students mastering a device or procedure so much as it is about mastering themselves first. Source: Use edtech to maximize student knowlege, skills and…
Take the dullness out of your Google Sheets with Emoji progress bars and charts
You can use dry numbers in your Google Sheet, or even add a chart, but there is an easy way to make dynamic progress bars and charts in Google Sheets using Emojis and the REPT function. What you will be creating We’re going to be taking this sheet: and making it a little more interesting:…
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6 Truths About Technology in Education I recently had the opportunity to Keynote the University of Pennsylvania Literacy Network’s Winter Symposium. Penn Literacy Network founder Mort Botel (who was also a former President of the International Reading Association) wrote one of the most influential works in my teaching career, “The Plainer Truths of Teaching/Learning/Assessing Across the Curriculum“;…