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Google released a new collaborative feature called ‘See new changes’. This is particularly useful for co-writing documents. Now when working on a document with other collaborators, you will be able to see the changes added to the document as …

Formative assessment is vital to teachers in any classroom environment. Teachers have been formatively assessing students for years, because we must know what our students know in order to help them understand what they do not know.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-tools-measure-student-learning-bethany-petty…

Images can bring presentations, reports and other student work to life. Students should learn to use images responsibly. Here’s what you need to know to help them.

http://ditchthattextbook.com/2015/09/04/how-to-get-and-use-free-images-the-right-way-in-class/…

Does the Internet encourage plagiarism? A study published in the Journal of Academic Ethics suggests otherwise, finding that instances of academic plagiarism actually decreased.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-09-09-is-plagiarism-down-depends-on-how-you-define-and-measure-it…

A district in Pennsylvania is flying in the face of the trend towards closed systems, instead choosing open source devices and software whenever possible. “We sometimes feel like a pirate island because this is unusual,” said Charlie Reisinger, technology …

I decided to shift to MS OneNote. Why? Because the tools is free and because it seemed to offer a solution. To my opinion: it also offers more structure to your content than Word does.

http://www.zelfstudie.be/blog/en/onenote-creating-digital-textbooks…

Computational thinking is typically associated with coding and computer programming, but it’s also more than that, involving “solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior,” according to Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.digitalpromise.org/blog/entry/a-new-model-for-coding-in-schools…

A responsive classroom integrates students’ social and emotional growth into their academic learning. This is done through social interaction and explicit instruction of skills during lessons.

http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/build-a-responsive-classroom-with-social-media…