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Writing online is the fastest way to accelerate your career. It’s the best way to learn faster, build your resume, and find peers and collaborators who can create job and business opportunities for you. Content builds on itself. It multiplies and compounds. Day and night, your content searches

Last Friday evening before turning in for the night, I shared a six part, threaded series of thoughts on Twitter based on frequent conversations I have with technology-fearful adults. Before reflec…

Free Technology for Teachers

Free Technology for Teachers

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Today I had an opportunity to share a 41 minute presentation with Mrs. Finley’s 12th grade Creative Writing class at our school, which I called, “Book Publishing 101.” Her student…

[This post was originally sent as an email newsletter to our Digital Detox participants.] Written by Renee Wells, Director of Education for Equity and Inclusion, Middlebury “Knowing how to handle online insults and trolls is so

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate is how challenging it can be for an institution to grapple with online learning and ed tech. Leadership is so important and yet the top layer of an …

Tour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360 tours right from your computer.

Stay active on your outposts and push people back to your home base.

Scandals and wrongdoing in tech rightly get a lot of attention, but there’s good — yes, really — happening elsewhere.

Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further? Here are 20 ideas and activities.

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The programs also support live subtitles in multiple languages.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever experienced any of these things: A computer crash wiped out all of the favorites from your web browser You wanted to access a bookmark on your work computer from home…

Quite a few museums and libraries have projects where anyone, including students, can transcribe historical handwritten documents. There’s quite a variety, and they would be cool student proj…

The Khan Academy has launched a new series of videos focused on civics for students in K-12 and higher education — and anybody else interested in learning how government works in the United States.

Most of us are familiar with TED Talks and TED-Ed animated videos and lessons – I certainly share enough of them and you can read more at The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talk…

My first year of grad school, I found myself totally overwhelmed by the amount and density of the required (and recommended) readings. I spent hours slogging through all of it. I had piles of notes. But I felt lost. So now I share these tips with my students…

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Jose Luis Vilson is an NYC math teacher, speaker, and activist, and the author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education.

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