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No Slacking Off! How Savvy Teachers Are Turning to Trello and Slack | EdSurge News

Schools may be behind on the technology adoption curve. But that doesn’t mean tech-savvy educators like Matthew Green, a 14-year veteran teacher who teaches high school juniors and seniors at Riverpoint Academy in Washington state, are slacking off.

“Our school sees itself as a startup,” he says, “and we’re always asking, ‘What are the best tools available right now?’”

Teachers have always found ways to adopt and adapt technology tools. Teachers are epic users of Twitter and Google docs.

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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017 | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Here they are: My six favorite ed tech tools for this year. Each one has the potential to make a big difference in your teaching and your students' learning.
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Digital Productivity for work, study and life.

Digital Productivity for work, study and life. | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The Technology Enhanced Learning team recently ran a bitesize online course for University of Sussex staff looking at Digital Productivity. This blog post will explore some ideas around that topic.

The course was conceived as a way to introduce staff to ways of working that take advantage of digital technologies to enhance or expand on practices they would previously have carried out manually. These techniques are equally useful for students and for ‘life admin’ for everyone.

It is very tempting to launch into lists of so-called productivity apps – and there are very many lists of that sort on the web – but if you are really going to find new, better ways of working then it is important to spend a little time thinking about where you are now and what you want to achieve
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Slack: A Powerful, Private (Free) Team Tool That Educators are Adopting — Emerging Education Technologies

Slack: A Powerful, Private (Free) Team Tool That Educators are Adopting — Emerging Education Technologies | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A few months ago I was introduced to Slack through my role as Community Administrator for the Flipped Learning Network. We started using the platform as a communication, content sharing, and engagement resource for the flipped learning community.

At first I was a little reluctant to have yet another app to deal with, but I quickly came to appreciate the powerful simplicity of the platform. A Google search made it obvious that educators are embracing the platform as well (more an that below).

Via John Evans, WebTeachers
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