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Funding Technology in Your Classroom
By Eric Braun, coauthor of The Survival Guide for Money Smarts Educational technology (ed tech) can be a boon to classroom learning for myriad reasons. Tech can provide tools for production (like word processing, presentation, and blogging platforms), research (with … Continue reading
Teaching Friendship Skills through Video Modeling
By William T. Mulcahy, LPC, NCC, CEAP, author of the Zach Rules series When I asked a friend what tools teachers could give kids to help them build healthy friendships, she replied, “Have them watch Barney. You know, ‘I love … Continue reading
Posted in Character Education, Educational Technology, Social & Emotional Learning
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Education Technology: Apps in the Elementary Classroom (Part 1)
Third in a series. Click to read “Apps in the Middle School Classroom” or “Highly Used Apps in High Schools“. Five years ago, most people did not expect to be carrying around a communication tool in their pocket that gave … Continue reading
