Katie Bercury's List: The "Why" of Ed Tech

• Mixbook for Educators

  • Definately check out the sample books at the bottom of the page--they show how this tool can be used to go much deeper, to real-world applications.
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• Exploring Children's Rights in Kenya

   

  • This is amazing. If students create a book, you can also put a "player" of it on your class website or blog so that people can see it digitally.
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• Mixbook For Educators

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• The study determined that student achievement can really soar if a teacher has 10 or more years of teaching experience, has been using the technology for two or more years, has high confidence in his or her ability to use the ActivClassroom suite, and uses it 75 to 80 percent of the time in the classroom.

   
• authored by noted education researchers Robert Marzano
• The study examined whether ActivClassroom had an impact at different grade levels and across different academic content areas. It also took into account a teacher's length of teaching experience, how long the teacher had been using the whiteboard suite in his or her instruction, the percentage of instructional time that ActivClassroom was used in the classroom, and teachers' perceived confidence in their use of the technology.
• he average student in the groups using the whiteboards scored higher than 67 percent of students in groups that did not use the whiteboards.
• high school,
• with achievement gains
• 21 percentile points,

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