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Google Classroom, Twitter tips, highlighting rows – Top 3 posts for the week
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11. Journal (from 13 Gmail hacks for teachers – http://u.eduk8.me/13gmailhacks)
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Sharing: The Case for Making Audiobooks Part of Curriculum | Getting Smart
Audiobooks are a valid listening component, providing rich exposure to sophisticated spoken words in school and at home. We’ve seen evidence of this in the work we do at Tales2go, but wanted to be more rigorous in our approach and have data to support our argument. We contracted with WestEd, a leading educational research nonprofit,…
Sharing: Makerspace Vision Statement
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Middle schoolers can’t tell real news from sponsored news
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