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Category Archives: Technology

Field-Testing the Math Apps

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With the advent of interactive touch screens, educational apps have taken off. Until recently, there has been little research into their effectiveness, but that is starting to change.

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The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year – Edudemic

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What are some of the most popular teacher tools being used this year? You may not know them all … but hopefully you recognize at least some of them!

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

I agree and use most of these.  I still need to check out Class Dojo and Evernote to see how they can be used.

See on www.edudemic.com

 

The new marshmallow test: Resisting the temptations of the web | Hechinger Report

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Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 in all—opened their books and turned on their computers. Read more…

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Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions – Leadership Training from MindTools.com

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We know that we are living in a global age. Technology has brought everyone much closer together. This means that people of different cultures find themselves working together and communicating more and more.

This is exciting, but it can also be frustrating and fraught with uncertainty. How do you relate to someone of another culture? What do you say, or not say, to start a conversation right? Are there cultural taboos that you need to be aware of?

See on www.mindtools.com