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HOW TO ADD VIDEO DIRECTIONS FOR YOUR STUDENTS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM

                                                              Do you ever feel like some students have a difficult time understanding written directions for projects or assignments? Do you need to differentiate or […]

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THE POSITIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN GAMES AND ONLINE LEARNING

Game-based learning has the potential to drastically improve the way children are taught. Games have peculiar qualities that let them engage hard-to-reach students in a way lessons cannot. Researchers have begun to explore the intrinsic qualities of games that make them promising learning tools, and anecdotal evidence is available everywhere. I personally know a student

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USING TWITTER CHATS FOR TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

For the broader culture, Twitter is usually perceived as a vast wasteland of gossip, rumor, and incivility. But teachers have transformed their corner of Twitter into something else entirely. Increasing numbers of teachers have been using Twitter chats for professional development. Most chats are specific to a certain subject, but some are regional, and others focus

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WE NEED TO END THE WAR BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE INSTRUCTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The percent of students who are taking online classes has exploded in recent years, and it shows no signs of abating. This is perhaps no surprise: online classes offer students a great degree of flexibility. But at the same time, the rise of online classes has led to something of a war between traditional and online instruction

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IT’S TIME TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION BY MATTHEW LYNCHAUGUST 1, 20180

                                                              Online and distance learning is growing in popularity as individuals are demanding a more flexible education. They need school schedules that can be easily coordinated

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Do I need antivirus on my computer?

While computer science had theorized self-replicating computer programs since the late 1940s, it was only in 1971 that the first virus, called Creeper, was created. Creeper did not do any particular harm; it could only display a message. The second computer virus in existence, dubbed Reaper, was created with the sole purpose of destroying Creeper. It was another 15 years of

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ARE WE WITNESSING THE GOLDEN AGE OF EDTECH?

Imagine the classroom of the 1980s. If the school district was reasonably wealthy, there might have been a television and a VHS player. The teacher might have had a personal computer, although there was no Internet access and functionality was largely limited to spreadsheets and word processing. Perhaps the school had one computer lab with

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