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Parents' ultimate guide to TikTok | Common Sense Media

Parents' ultimate guide to TikTok | Common Sense Media | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Is TikTok safe? How does it work? And can I do a duet with my kid? Everything you need to know about this popular musical singing and sharing app. Advice from Common Sense Media editors ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: How to use Flipgrid - from sign-up to video responses 

Free Technology for Teachers: How to use Flipgrid - from sign-up to video responses  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Flipgrid is one of the most popular ed tech tools to emerge in the last couple of years. It can be used as tool for video-based formative assessment, it can be used as an alternative to a classroom YouTube channel, and it can be used to connect classrooms around the world. Those are just a few of the ways that teachers use Flipgrid ..."

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How to make your classroom work more like YouTube 

How to make your classroom work more like YouTube  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"...Whatever mechanisms YouTube uses to deploy content works. Clearly the learning process is far more complicated than digital media hosting. What might happen if education experimented with some of the lessons YouTube’s staggering success has taught us? What might those lessons be? ..."

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2017 Words of the Year

2017 Words of the Year | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"This year, every word of the year had a political meaning—some good and some bad. "Fake news" was the clear winner, but there were some WOTY surprises too ...."

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How to use Snapchat for classroom learning success

How to use Snapchat for classroom learning success | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How social media-savvy educators are finding ways to make learning fun for their students by incorporating Snapchat into lessons ..."

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The forty-three games we can’t wait to play in 2017

The forty-three games we can’t wait to play in 2017 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Zelda, Red Dead, Mass Effect, and more ..."

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How design thinking became a buzzword at school

How design thinking became a buzzword at school | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The trendy concept is in high demand among educators, but its specifics are vague ..."

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Eight teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017

Eight teacher-loved edtech tools to try in 2017 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"These edtech tools are already being used with success by teachers and schools across the country, so give them a try! ..."

  1. Coursera
  2. iTunes University
  3. Wolfram Alpha
  4. Google Knowledge Graph
  5. Prezi
  6. Plotly
  7. Edmodo
  8. Schoology
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What studying app is used by 1 in 3 high school students? — Emerging Education Technologies

What studying app is used by 1 in 3 high school students? — Emerging Education Technologies | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"And What do you do to Keep Improving When You are Already one of the Most Widely Used Education Apps Around? ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: How to enable automatic grading in Google Forms

Free Technology for Teachers: How to enable automatic grading in Google Forms | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The new automatic grading function in Google Forms seems to be a hit with many readers. I've received a bunch of questions about it in the last week ..."

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Minecraft creators reveal the game has sold over 100 MILLION copies worldwide

Minecraft creators reveal the game has sold over 100 MILLION copies worldwide | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Minecraft creators revealed the game has now been sold more than 100 million times – and a few copies have even made it to Antarctica.The figures combine sales from PC, console, and mobile ..."

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Our top 15 teaching and learning articles of 2015

Our top 15 teaching and learning articles of 2015 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"From assignment strategies to cell phone policies, take a look at some of the most popular teaching and learning articles of the past year ..."

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Picmonkey improves their tools and we love it even more - The American Genius

Picmonkey improves their tools and we love it even more - The American Genius | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Photo editing software has come a long way. Now, you can edit your images in the blink of an eye and Picmonkey is still our favorite tool to use ..."

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Parents' ultimate guide to "Fortnite" | Common Sense Media 

Parents' ultimate guide to "Fortnite" | Common Sense Media  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Are your kids caught up in the "Fortnite" frenzy? Here's everything you need to know about this popular video game. Advice from Common Sense Media editors..."

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Fifty fascinating facts about Google you probably don't know 

Fifty fascinating facts about Google you probably don't know  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Google is the most visited website on the planet, but you already knew that, right? However, do you know that Google does 65k+ searches every second? And..."

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Important news about Adobe Spark

Important news about Adobe Spark | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Adobe Spark is a great tool for making videos, storytelling websites, and simple graphics. It has been popular since its launch a few ..."

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Sarahah: Why everyone is talking about the 'honesty first' secret messaging app

Sarahah: Why everyone is talking about the 'honesty first' secret messaging app | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A new messaging app focused on privacy and trust has soared in popularity since its release in June ..."

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How Google Chromebooks conquered schools

How Google Chromebooks conquered schools | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn't a practical mobile device for many people — mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can't find a Wi-Fi connection. Yet Chromebooks have defied expectations and made major inroads in an unexpected environment — U.S. schools ..."

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Ten sites for teachers | Tech Learning

Ten sites for teachers | Tech Learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Though it’s the administrators’ job to steer the ship with regards to technology use in school, every teacher has their favorite edtech websites and apps they love to use with their students.  Here’s a list, in no particular order, of some of the most talked-about edtech websites and apps that might not yet be on your admins’ radars ..."

  1. emaze
  2. BoomWriter
  3. Kaizena
  4. TextHelp
  5. Formative
  6. Canva
  7. Buncee
  8. Edpuzzle
  9. Storyboard That
  10. The Answer Pad

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Exploring the benefits of audiobooks for any reading level

Exploring the benefits of audiobooks for any reading level | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In today’s world, encouraging and developing literacy through exposure to language, storytelling and fluency requires multimodal options. Audiobooks speak directly to this need ..."

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Twelve new iOS learning apps we love -

Twelve new iOS learning apps we love - | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
  1. Noteshelf
  2. PlaykidsLearn
  3. Toca TV
  4. RelationShapes
  5. Cosmolander: Missions in the Solar System
  6. Tinderblocks
  7. Cosmic Watch
  8. Mini Metro
  9. Swift Playgrounds
  10. CreativeLive
  11. SmartFeed
  12. Animation Desk Cloud
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Pokémon Go brings augmented reality to a mass audience

Pokémon Go brings augmented reality to a mass audience | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The smartphone game shows how a new technology can break through from niche toy for early adopters to go mainstream ..."

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What science teachers are reading June 2016

What science teachers are reading June 2016 | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Most popular NSTA Press books, e-books, and children's books June 2016 ..."

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Tablets are dead

Tablets are dead | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless others were about ..."

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Why emojis are no longer cool in the country that invented them

Why emojis are no longer cool in the country that invented them | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"By plenty of measures, 2015 has been a banner year for emojis. A Welsh professor declared them the fastest growing language in the U.K ..."

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