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Chrome Extensions for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Click & Clean deletes typed URL''s, browsing history, Flash cookies, and other types of online activity. Clip to Evernote : Many educators use Evernote so it just makes sense that there is an extension to save things that you see on the web right to your account. educational technology Google Chrome Opinion'

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Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses

ED Surge

Ubell’s experience was in academic publishing, and he had recently finished a stint as the editor of Nature magazine and was looking for something different. We dig into the bumpy history of online higher education on this week’s EdSurge Podcast. If they were good in the classroom, they were usually good online.”

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EdSurge Reporter Wins Top Prize for Journalism About Low Teacher Pay

ED Surge

One of them, “ Our Nation’s Teachers Are Hustling to Survive ,” was co-published with the investigative magazine Mother Jones. And Marcus Blankenship, a sixth grade history teacher in North Carolina who drives for the rideshare app Lyft. But I wondered, could we afford to keep them?”

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

ED Surge

In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance? Tengo Andres Guardado?” “Sí… Sí… ¿Tengo Mbappe?”

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

ED Surge

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. There was a Wired magazine article that ran just last month arguing that podcasts could unleash a new age of enlightenment. What do you think of that take?

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. and in its schools.

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