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SMARTtech Top 10: Quick Headlines Before the Holiday Break

Quick! Hurry! Before your head fills with sugar plums and presents, read the top 10 news headlines you need to know at the close of 2012.

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The Virtues of Daydreaming & 30 Other Surprising (& Controversial) Research Findings About How Students Learn

Have you checked your assumptions about student learning at the door? People in general, hold onto beliefs that are shaped by early experiences, the media, and faulty influences. The following list is a compilation of research that may surprise you. Video games, e-books, playtime, and music are all a part of an educato...

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SMARTtech Top 10: Happy Holidays

Wow, it was a big week in education news. During this busy (most wonderful) time of the year, we’re helping to save you time by pulling together the Top 10 stories from this week, wrapping them up and tying them with a big red bow. Just for you. Enjoy!

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5 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom

Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovati...

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Extreme Learning and the University Professor

In part 2 of our sereis on Dr. Curtis Bonk’s extreme learning research, we look at ways to integrate the best practices of fieldwork into your curriculum.

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How the Flipped Classroom Turned Me into a Better Student

My first two years of high school were a continuous struggle. I wasn’t very engaged during class, had a difficult time doing my homework, and was unable to get help from my parents because they didn’t know the material that I was being assigned. After my sophomore year I took the ACT test and scored a 13 – which ...

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Share Student Voices & Gather Audiences With 10+ Tech Tools

Once the essays were written, students used my shared Symbaloo webmix, “Creative Gallery,” to locate an appropriate technology tool to showcase their essays. Although the majority chose Blogger, students also used Wix, Weebly, Storybird, Google Docs, Windows Movie Maker Live and YouTube to share their viewpoints. F...

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