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As educators, we also need to hone our own skills, develop new ideas, and reflect on our practice. Here are five ways to kickstart your summer learning.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ideas-kickstart-your-summer-learning-beth-holland…

Despite tremendous access to technology, most teachers have not transformed their instruction. Experts will discuss how tech is actually used and the barriers to technology-enabled, student-centered teaching.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/06/11/why-ed-tech-is-not-transforming-how.htm…

What’s different about iPads is their mobility. Now, a child can stare at a screen every minute of the day. And many do exactly that, frequently aided and abetted by their parents.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/why-ipads-are-the-new-drugs-for-kids-20150610-ghgvug.html…

Here are some of the tools our content team leverages to make that process efficient. While some of this may be overkill for you or your team, there may be some value in seeing how content gets created from …

An excellent tool for formative assessment is Google Forms. Good formative assessment allows you to be quickly responsive to student needs. Google Forms gives you the data from students instantly after they press submit. Since all student answers are …

Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for ads.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/belgium-facebook-court-privacy-breaches-ads…

PowerPoint presentations provide the opportunity to combine many of those tools into one place. In one lesson, you can easily incorporate speech, text, images, videos, and audio. You want your presentations to be engaging for your students. PowerPoint provides …

Facebook knows the social network of more than a billion persons. If you are a Facebook user though, you have little tools to explore your own social network. We are going to see how, with a few scraping tools, …

As technology has gotten smarter and a lot smaller, educators have raised concerns that gadgets — from blue tooth earpieces to Google Glass — could be used to cut corners during important tests.

http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/universities-banning-smart-watches/…

Here are 10 ways in which you can extend the uses of PDFs, in order not only to increase your productivity but also extend your knowledge of such a useful document format.

http://socialbarrel.com/10-easy-and-innovative-ways-to-use-pdf-files/98741/…

If we distil the Internet of Things down to its essential purpose, it is the use of technology to permit us as human beings to yield or surrender some aspects of our attention, the need for our attentiveness, to …