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Explore ways that generative AI chatbots can help you solve tech support questions in the K–12 classroom and save you valuable time.

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Engage your students in a six-step, problem-solving experience using Canva.

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Get a glimpse into Learn Your Way, a new AI-powered learning project from Google Labs that may transform the consumption of text documents in the classroom.

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Increase efficiency and productivity through the use of document tabs in Google Docs.

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Learn about Grouper, an online tool designed to help you quickly and thoughtfully create customized student groups.

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Explore six of the most powerful features of NotebookLM and discover how you can use this tool in your K–12 classroom.

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Discover how K–12 teachers can use customizable AI Gems to save time.

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Explore the features and functionality of Google Gemini's image generation tool, Nano Banana.

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Explore ways that Suno can be used to create AI-generated music in the classroom.

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Explore TeacherServer, a collection of AI-powered tools designed to support educators and help save them time.

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Explore the features of ChatGPT's new study mode and learn how it works.

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Explore three ways to gain an understanding of machine learning: Google's Teachable Machine, micro:bit's CreateAI, and Grammarly's guide to machine learning.

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Explore the AI Literacy Toolkit for Families, a free resource co-created by Common Sense Media and Day of AI.

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Give consideration to these four key questions when establishing and implementing your classroom technology routines.

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Explore various schedules for hybrid blended learning and review tips and best practices for remote and in-class learning.

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Explore three ways that classroom technology can help K–12 teachers foster personal connections, enhance collaboration, and build relationships.

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Explore three common types of blended learning playlist models, their benefits, and a five-step process for planning them.

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Understand the concepts and practices of flipped learning, which can improve your implementation of all blended learning models.

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Explore the blended learning strategy of station rotation and how to implement it in your K–12 classroom.

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Explore ways to integrate the blended learning strategy of whole-group rotation into your classroom.

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Explore details from Empowering Learners for the Age of AI: An AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education, a draft document from the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that provides AI guidance for educators.

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Explore the core elements and potential benefits of blended learning.

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Improve your understanding and use of AI in three steps.

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Discover the free AI Trust You add-on that helps create trusting and transparent communication between teachers and students about AI use.

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Review the key points from President Trump's executive order, “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.”

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Technology can be used to enhance the publishing phase of the writing process.

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Discover technology that can aid with proofing and polishing your writing.

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Discover tech tools and strategies that support the revision stage of the writing process.

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Explore mind mapping, outlining, and storyboarding as strategies to organize ideas in the pre-writing phase of the writing process.

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Use technology to assist you in writing your first draft.

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Explore pre-writing strategies that include researching, generating citations, and note-taking.

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Explore technology and strategies that students can use when generating preliminary ideas during the pre-writing stage of the writing process.

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Explore benefits, strategies, and technology applications that engage students in writing to learn.

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Review strategies for deconstructing a writing prompt and selecting a topic.

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Explore how you can use Snorkl to provide your students with formative feedback that is AI-powered and personalized.

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Explore features and integration ideas for Canva Whiteboard.

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Explore Corgi, an interactive graphic organizer tool that is free and can help scaffold student development of key critical thinking skills.

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Explore how students can use slideshow software to develop computer science and critical thinking skills.

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Explore how you can use SchoolAI for the creation of custom chatbots to achieve academic standards, engage your students, and monitor student progress.

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Use Google Vids to bring video production into your K–12 classroom.

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Explore the features of Adobe Podcast and consider how you might integrate student podcasting into your classroom.

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K–12 educators can find details and resources for participating in Digital Learning Day (DLDay) 2025, hosted by All4Ed.

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Review a list of free online courses and resources designed to help you learn more about artificial intelligence before introducing AI to your students.

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Learn about Napkin AI, a tool that you can use to create clear and simple content summaries with accompanying visuals.

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Use Curipod to add additional interactivity to your teacher presentations while also leveraging the efficiency of AI.

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Consider bringing passion projects—where students choose the project focus, decide what they want to learn and create, plan out how they will achieve those goals, and work toward completion—into your classroom in an effort to increase their motivation.

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Review a three-step process for facilitating student podcast creation in your classroom.

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Explore 12 ways to leverage the power of digital calendars to aid your efforts with organization and efficiency.

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Review 10 holiday activities for your classroom that utilize free technology.

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Explore five strategies for giving all students a voice in your classroom during the holiday season.

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Learn about new search functionality that provides both accessible AI summaries as well as links to sources and live web content.

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Explore AI music generation, including two available tools, MusicFX and Suno.

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Learn about three digital tools that can help make the process of generating a thank-you card fast and efficient.

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Explore QuillBot, an AI writing assistant that works across various apps and websites.

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Discover three upgrades to Google's AI-powered NotebookLM.

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Discover four ways to meaningfully integrate technology into primarily offline learning experiences.

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Review resources that K–12 educators can use to teach media and news literacy.

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Explore key concepts and digital options for the areas of action and expression within CAST's Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines.

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Consider digital tools to help meet CAST's Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines for representation.

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Explore learning design considerations for enhancing engagement by using CAST's Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines.

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Review an overview of the newly released Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 from CAST.

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Discover fun and interactive digital icebreaker activities for helping students in your classroom get to know each another.

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Explore strategies for using AVID Open Access content for professional learning.

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Discover the many free career-exploration resources that Roadtrip Nation has developed for students and educators, including an online course and a vast video library.

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Review eight AI prompt engineering strategies that teachers can use to improve their results.

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Familiarize yourself with this checklist that outlines key considerations in setting up a tech-rich classroom environment where students are empowered for success.

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Review nine tips for preparing your classroom technology for the start of a new school year.

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Discover free AI resources from aiEDU for teachers of grades 7–12.

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Learn about Brisk Teaching, which functions through the use of a Google Chrome extension, and its suite of teaching assistants and writing feedback tools.

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Explore how the five guiding principles in the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights can help guide the integration of artificial intelligence in our schools and classrooms.

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Explore an AI guide and a collection of student assignments from the metaLAB (at) Harvard on the AI Pedagogy Project website.

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Discover tech-empowered strategies for celebrating students' birthdays in K–12 classrooms.

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Explore SchoolAI as a means to making generative AI more accessible in schools.

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Explore strategies for writing policy about artificial intelligence in K–12 schools.

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Explore strategies for learning about artificial intelligence and AI policy in K–12 schools.

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Discover how to get started with writing school and district policies for artificial intelligence.

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Explore important steps to take once you have adopted AI policy in your K–12 school or district.

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Explore ways to use artificial intelligence with character in K–12 classrooms.

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Explore ways to teach K–12 students about citizenship in the age of artificial intelligence.

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Explore how generative artificial intelligence can enhance creativity in the K–12 classroom.

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Explore strategies for using generative AI tools to facilitate critical thinking in K–12 classrooms.

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Explore three strategies that students can use to improve their ability to collaborate with AI.

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Explore strategies for using artificial intelligence tools to improve communication in K–12 education.

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Learn about the dangers of "cheap fakes," which involve the manipulation of media to make something look real when it really isn’t, but unlike deepfakes, they take very little skill to create and can be made with simple and accessible tools.

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Discover free resources from the News Literacy Project that can help you and your students become media literate consumers of information in the digital age.

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Review seven general persuasion strategies used in disinformation campaigns and five strategies that are more specific to social media platforms.

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Review six action steps that can be taken to help identify misinformation and avoid being misled.

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Explore the motivations and psychology that contribute to the sharing of misinformation and disinformation in online spaces.

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Review seven strategies that you and your students can use to identify deepfakes.

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Review the basics of deepfakes, including the four most common types of media manipulation.

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Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support and enhance the reading process.

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Explore ways that both students and teachers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate and enhance collaboration.

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Explore ways that educators and students can improve their organizational skills with artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

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Explore 10 ways that teachers can integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the inquiry process.

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Explore strategies for effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the student writing process.

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Explore NotebookLM, a virtual notebook tool from Google.

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Get caught up with quick answers to six frequently asked questions about artificial intelligence (AI).

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Review strategies that can be implemented to help promote and maintain integrity in the writing process, even when students have access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

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Explore strategies to promote and maintain academic integrity in classrooms where students have access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

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Explore the three pricing tiers of ed tech products to determine how to best use your limited funds.

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Use short video clips to spark students' interest and guide them into lessons and activities aligned with academic standards.

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QuestionWell can save teachers time with generating questions based on a topic of study or a block of text.

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Explore 12 tools that can jump-start your productivity with artificial intelligence.

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Review Eduaide, a generative AI tool that is designed to help teachers plan and save time.

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Diffit is an AI-powered differentiation tool that can save teachers time with generating content at various reading levels, providing vocabulary lists, and engaging students with comprehension questions.

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Explore 10 ways that you can have your students express gratitude in your classroom.

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Familiarize yourself with FigJam, an online whiteboard that offers most of the same features as Google Jamboard—which is sunsetting at the end of 2024—as well as an impressive collection of additional tools.

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Explore what information bubbles are, ways to mitigate them, and ideas to help inform students about them.

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Consider how technology can both enhance and transform a Socratic Seminar.

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Discover the unique features of Claude 2 and how this generative AI tool can assist educators.

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Use GrammarlyGO to access generative AI functionality within the context of Grammarly's writing assistance software.

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The Amazon Future Engineer program is once again awarding 400 high school seniors across the nation with scholarships of up to $40,000 each to attend the college or university of their choice.

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Use the Adobe Firefly AI tool to generate and modify images and text.

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Explore MagicSchool, an AI tool specifically created for educators to help them save time.

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Review the features of Khanmigo, an artificial intelligence powered student tutor and teacher assistant.

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Review the features and creative options offered by Canva, an online multimedia creation tool.

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Discover 10 tips for improving the prompts you use with generative AI chatbots.

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Review five ways educators can begin preparing students for an AI World.

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Learn more about Flippity, a website where you can access different learning activity templates, preview each activity, and review directions for how to make a copy and customize it.

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Explore examples of artificial intelligence as well as new generative versions of AI.

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Learn how to use Google Forms or Microsoft Forms and Quizlet Live to coordinate a community-building experience for your classroom.

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Review benefits and strategies for incorporating tech skills and routines into your classroom.

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As a way of capturing and sharing the incredible expertise and insights of educators, AVID Open Access has begun a project called #EducatorVoices.

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Supporting our teachers’ mental health and job satisfaction is essential for an effective educational system.

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Consider prompts and follow-up questions that teachers can use when asking AI chatbots to help design a lesson.

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Review considerations around copyright and fair use.

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Discover seven key steps that students can use when preparing to share information with an audience.

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Develop expectations and support students with strategies for reviewing their work, reflecting on improvements, and revising their products and processes.

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Explore digital products and tools that students can use to communicate their research findings.

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Explore a list of digital annotation and note-taking tools that can support students with recording their ideas, regardless of what media format they're using.

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Consider action steps that educators can take to begin learning about artificial intelligence and introduce it into the classroom.

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Design student-centered learning through project-based learning, inquiry, and blended learning models to prepare your students for the ever-changing world of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Explore how educators can prepare their students for a workforce impacted by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is anticipated to disrupt the labor market and how this disruption will impact education.

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Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming worker productivity and how it has the potential to impact educators.

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Support students in their efforts of searching for relevant and credible information to answer their inquiry questions.

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Find tips for how students can gain background knowledge and develop a research plan for an area of study.

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Discover considerations and applications for students to use AI tools in your classroom.

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Take a virtual tour of Khan Academy's new personal AI tutoring program, Khanmigo.

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Discover how AI can be leveraged as a personal tutor for every student.

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Review a list of 14 ways that you can use AI tools, like ChatGPT, to reduce your workload and save you time as a teacher.

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Find ways to help students express their curiosity and ask questions.

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Use these templates and resources to help students generate questions about their learning.

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Learn how households can receive financial support in connecting to the internet through the Affordable Connectivity Program.

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Review the three main generative AI chatbots currently available: ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing Chat, and Google Bard.

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Explore the 3 B4 T strategy and related digital tools to help your students develop effective online study skills.

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Discover tips to help you manage your email inbox.

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Learn the basics about artificial intelligence (AI), why it's important, and how it's evolving.

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Learn the meaning of key terms used in conversations around artificial intelligence.

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Compare the results of two sample queries in ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing Chat, and Google Bard.

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Discover free lessons and classroom challenges available from aiEDU.

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Explore tools and integration ideas for using ePortfolios in your classroom.

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Take part in Day of AI by accessing MIT RAISE's free curriculum.

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AI products that focus on reading and writing skill development offer a glimpse into the rapidly shifting educational technology landscape.

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Explore strategies and tools for creating a classroom culture of academic integrity.

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Use digital tools to help students create eBinders in order to stay organized.

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Use digital tools and strategies to teach your students to manage their digital files effectively.

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Use digital tools and templates to teach your students to manage their time effectively.

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Review learning environment checklists as well as links to resources students can use to master these spaces.

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Explore tools that you can use to reduce distractions when working in a digital space.

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Connect your students to digital pen-pals and learning partners outside of your physical classroom.

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Explore 10 resources to help you plan a virtual field trip.

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Explore 9 options for bringing virtual guest speakers into your classroom.

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Provide students with options to create using animation tools in your classroom.

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Consider using these 5 multimedia formats and related digital tools to encourage student creation in your classroom.

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Explore 12 ways that you can celebrate Valentine's Day in your classroom.

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Explore writing formats, tools, and integration ideas that you can implement in your classroom. 

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Explore image creation and editing tools as well as integration ideas for your classroom.

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Inspire creativity by integrating audio projects and tools into your classroom.

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Discover nine ways that ChatGPT can benefit teachers and save time.

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Plan your next steps forward by considering the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats posed by ChatGPT.

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Learn the basics about the artificial intelligence application ChatGPT.

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Consider these 12 ways to minimize and address concerns regarding ChatGPT and academic integrity.

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Explore tools and integration ideas that you can use to have your students create with video.

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Discover 10 benefits of student creation in your classroom and explore links to six types of products that students can create with technology.

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Use these resources to reinforce classroom community and inject some fun into the days before and after breaks from school.

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Use these resources to introduce your students to computer coding and problem solving skills.

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Use the four parts of the BIAS acronym to guide your students in identifying bias.

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Explore four ways to facilitate face-to-face formative check-ins with your students.

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Review 8 ideas for managing class time in a way that can reduce your overall workload.

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Ask yourself these twelve questions to determine if there are strategies you can apply to save time and reduce your workload.

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Explore twelve strategies to save time grading and reduce your workload.

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Examine seven ways that working together as a school can reduce the workload for individual teachers.

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Examine seven strategies for reducing your workload by making your planning more efficient.

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Explore 12 strategies that can make your communication process more efficient and save you time.

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Use this list of resources to provide students with convenient, multimedia reference tools.

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Explore five digital whiteboard options to engage your students in practice, information processing, and collaboration.

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Create five different types of learning spaces to provide differentiated options for your students.

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Establish these four types of classroom connections to build relational capacity, help students feel connected, and improve academic success. 

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Use polling tools to survey your students, engage them in learning, check for progress, and get immediate feedback.

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Empower and motivate students by giving them voice and choice throughout the learning process. 

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Develop an ongoing communication system that will keep parents informed and engage them as supportive partners who can reinforce your classroom expectations.

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Connect with other educators through Twitter, blogs, and podcasts to stay current with best practices and discover new tools and strategies.

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Discover digital tools and resources that world and English language (EL) teachers can use to help students efficiently and effectively learn a new language.

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Stay connected and continue to grow professionally through websites, blogs, podcasts, social media, and YouTube channels.

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Discover digital options for connecting your students personally and collaboratively to a wide variety of art, artists, and audiences.

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Explore virtual science tools that can empower students in your science classroom to engage in or create simulations, labs, and interactive science materials in a digital environment.

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Consider how you can leverage the power of technology to have students discover art to review, share their own work with others, reflect, and provide meaningful and timely feedback.

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Discover how the intentional use of science games and videos in your classroom can activate and expand thinking and learning. 

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Discover how tech tools and strategies can improve teaching and learning in your science classroom.

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Browse the many options available to go on virtual field trips, become a citizen scientist, extend computer science skills, and develop computational thinking skills.

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Explore nine digital options for presenting and sharing your artwork, so you can effectively and efficiently reach your target audience.

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Explore nine different lists of digital tools that your students can use to create visual art.

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Browse and discover lesson-planning resources to help you plan, create, and amplify your science lessons. 

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Discover strategies and digital tools you can easily incorporate into your science classroom to improve engagement, feedback, and motivation. 

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Infusing technology into the visual arts classroom can help students develop creativity, critical thinking, and art skills, while also preparing them for success in a tech-rich world of work and artistic possibility.

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Integrate inquiry into each phase of your tutorial process to help students develop multiple skills while owning their learning.

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Explore a tutorial process that features a scaffolded approach to help improve student performance, increase their mental well-being, and support their academic aspirations.

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Place the student, not the content, at the center of your tutoring practice to build not just academic skills but also relational capacity.

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Explore our collection of video timers designed in three different styles: classic blue, classroom blackboard, and colorful rainbow.

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Explore a multitude of ways that students can use audio, video, text, images, and multimedia to communicate conclusions, demonstrate what they've learned, and take action based on that learning.

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Explore five ways to empower your students to critically evaluate resources and effectively use them as evidence.

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Consider how technology has made the instruction of social studies and history more important than ever and how you can best prepare your students for life in a technology-infused world.

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Explore digital resources that you can integrate into your civics, economics, history, and geography classroom.

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Examine four strategies and skills that you can use to help your students develop questions and plan inquiries.

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Learn the basic steps in the financial aid process as well as and how parents can support their children through the process of applying for and funding their post-secondary education.

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Uncover the truths behind 12 common misunderstandings about financial aid.

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Explore the five parts of the financial aid process, including planning, completing FAFSA, reviewing aid offers, receiving aid, and repaying loans.

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Gain an understanding of student financial aid and the process for filing the Free Application For Student Aid (FAFSA).

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Get quick answers to some of the most common questions about FAFSA and the financial aid process.

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Use these digital templates and resources to help students analyze and think critically about the literature they are reading.

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Use these premade exit ticket templates to check in with your students at the end of a lesson and see how they are doing academically and emotionally.

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Use these digital templates and resources to help students develop their literacy skills by organizing thoughts, practicing skills, connecting with literacy concepts, and applying their learning.

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Students can use these graphic organizers to analyze concepts, solve problems, and think critically about the content they are exploring.

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Use these resources to help students create, communicate, and demonstrate learning through comic strip templates and creation tools.

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Use these digital templates to ignite interest and launch new learning in your classroom.

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Use these templates to help students organize and plan for both traditional and multimedia writing.

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Use these premade templates to have students create timelines, sequences of ideas, collages, and a visual mapping of concepts.

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Use these premade templates to build engaging and interactive practice and reinforcement activities for your students.

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Use these digital templates and online math resources to help students practice and apply foundational math concepts.

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Use these digital versions of popular board games to have students interact, connect, and practice critical thinking.

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Students can use these versatile graphic organizers to process and categorize concepts and ideas in any academic content area.

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Use these activities and templates to facilitate the building of community and classroom relationships.

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Use these short videos of dice, spinners, cards, and rubber ducks to select random numbers and letters.

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Explore how you can use screen recording software in your classroom.

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Explore virtual tools and manipulatives to empower students to calculate, graph, measure, express themselves, and manipulate concepts in a digital environment.

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Explore design tools, coding sites, online simulations, and polling tools that students can use to authentically apply and extend math skills and concepts.

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Integrate digital whiteboards, graphing tools, and screen recording software to increase communication, collaboration, and feedback in your math classroom.

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Explore four ways for finding time to meet with students.

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Discover online courses and learning modules that you can integrate into your math classroom, either as individual lessons or as a complete course.

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Browse and discover video collections and lesson plan resources to help you plan and create your math lessons.

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Explore math practice and interactive game websites that you can use to have your students practice math skills and receive immediate, automated feedback.

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Discover how tech tools and digital teaching strategies can improve learning in your math classroom and help create a student-centric learning process.

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Explore ways to design a learning environment that allows you to accelerate learning by meeting the unique needs of each learner.

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Explore four areas of differentiation that can lead to accelerated learning.

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Explore 11 ways to design rigorous and cognitively complex learning experiences for your students.

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Explore ways to accelerate learning by empowering students with key study skills and then by exposing them to rich, rigorous learning experiences where they can achieve success by applying these important skills.

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Explore 12 ways to design learning that empower students by building on their assets.

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Explore ways to bring every student to the academic mountaintop.

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Explore a three-step process that includes identifying priority grade-level standards, determining gaps in prerequisite learning, and providing just-in-time support for unlearned prerequisite skills.

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Explore ways to accelerate learning by assessing prior learning, backwards designing summative assessments, and conducting frequent formative checks.

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Help students make connections between computational thinking and computing.

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Find resources to help students learn the music creation process, from writing and composing through recording and production.

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Find resources to help students discover, explore, and access a variety of music types and genres.

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Find resources to help you teach music, including websites that feature music theory, virtual instruments, and lesson planning ideas.

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Understand how teaching students computational thinking in any subject and at any age can help diminish unconscious bias in computing and our society.

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Explore an introduction to accelerated learning, including the dangers of a deficit mindset, the need to accelerate rather than remediate, and the importance of being an equity champion.

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Explore strategies that you can use to effectively and efficiently integrate online music tools into your lessons and virtual classroom.

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Explore four ways to accelerate learning through classroom connections: connecting teacher to student, student to student, teacher to family, and student to learning.

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Find resources to help students learn an instrument, find music to play or study, and both respond and reflect on musical performances.

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Develop and deepen your understanding of abstraction and how it can be used in the classroom.

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Deepen your understanding of decomposition and algorithmic thinking and how you can use both to help your students become better problem solvers and better understand the world around them.

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Explore websites filled with lessons, teaching ideas, content resources, and interactive games.

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Leverage leveled reading websites to effectively and efficiently differentiate for different student reading levels, scaffold reading development, and provide equitable access to academic content.

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Develop a collection of online reference materials for convenient and immediate access and use.

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Explore the unique benefits of digital speaking and listening and also discover online resources to integrate into your classroom.

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Discover online resources to help plan and teach lessons about literature.

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Begin to develop an understanding of computational thinking and why we should be teaching it to every student.

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Help students learn about pattern recognition and how it helps solve problems.

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Utilize these digital whiteboard strategies to increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.

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Design and deliver an effective self-paced online lesson.

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Choose a digital delivery system that will best support self-paced, virtual teaching and learning.

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Learn strategies for providing students with feedback while teaching in a live remote-learning environment.

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Learn strategies for providing students with feedback while teaching in a self-paced remote-learning environment.

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Examine key considerations for designing opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning in your virtual classroom.

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Develop authentic and engaging summative assessments for self-paced virtual-teaching sessions.

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Design a quality online classroom by following five guiding principles.

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Discover ways to establish a feedback and progress monitoring system that will inform your virtual learning community of teacher, students, and families.

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Explore resources, tips, and strategies to help you prepare for the start of the school year regardless of format (face-to-face, remote, or hybrid).

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Expand student access to reading materials through e-Books, virtual libraries, and digital collections.

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Follow these suggested facilitator tips to deliver an effective live virtual-teaching session.

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Utilize these five polling strategies to increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.

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Utilize these strategies for managing and engaging students in breakout rooms during your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.

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Explore strategies and tools that will work best when assessing your students during live virtual-teaching sessions.

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Design a live virtual teaching experience that sets teachers and students up for success.

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Review seven tips and guidelines for designing and facilitating effective student reflection during remote teaching and learning.

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Review these best practices and tips for establishing an effective communication plan for teachers, students, and parents.

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Explore strategies, tips, and tools to promote student self-reflection during synchronous teaching.

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Learn strategies, tips, and tools to promote student self-reflection during asynchronous teaching.

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Utilize these Q and A strategies to increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.

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Utilize these seven chat strategies to increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.

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Use digital tools and strategies to make reading instruction more engaging, efficient, and effective.

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Utilize these six strategies to manage access and privacy during your live video classes in remote and hybrid learning.

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Choose a video communication tool that will best support live virtual teaching and learning.

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Learn how to help students review, reflect, and revise both the process and product of their inquiry learning during the ANSWERS inquiry process.

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Explore why digital citizenship is so important and learn more about what it means for both you and your students.

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Discover five ways to help you increase digital citizenship in your classroom.

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Learn how to help students prepare and share the product of their learning as part of the ANSWERS inquiry process.

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Leverage inquiry learning to engage students during remote and hybrid learning.

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Learn how to help students apply critical thinking, note-taking, and organizational skills as they weave information together during the fourth step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.

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Learn how to help students analyze, synthesize, interpret, and communicate the results of their inquiry during the fifth step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.

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Uncover ways to empower your students to create a positive digital footprint.

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Learn how to help students search for relevant and credible information as they complete the third step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.

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Enhance classroom netiquette and learn how to diminish cyberbullying among your students.

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Learn about the difference between passive and active screen time and how to integrate more active screen time.

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Learn more about the second step in the ANSWERS inquiry process to help students explore possibilities and develop their research plan.

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The first step in the inquiry learning process is to spark student curiosity and guide them to generate their own questions.

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Explore how to leverage virtual field trips to engage students in authentic learning experiences.

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Explore how to invite virtual guest speakers to engage and inspire your students.

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Explore how to connect your students to classroom around the world to help them become effective global collaborators

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Use digital tools to add your finishing touches, conduct one final check, and then publish your finished project to your audience.

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Use digital tools to analyze your writing, identify mechanical issues, and help you create a polished final draft.

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Explore ways to integrate technology as you transition from the planning stage to writing your first draft.

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Use technology to efficiently and effectively improve the content, organization, and coherence of your writing.

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Explore ways to recover, recharge, and regroup this summer and get ready for fall.

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Find resources and strategies to help you embrace differences in your classroom and promote equity.

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Develop your understanding and learn how to engage in strategies that will make your class more culturally relevant.

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Review these five strategies for addressing academic gaps when students return in the fall.

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Explore best practices and strategies to help increase your awareness of equity and establish a commitment toward change.

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Explore ways to integrate technology into four pre-writing tasks: clarifying your writing task, generating preliminary ideas, gathering ideas and content, and organizing and planning.

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Consider how the integration of technology can expand how you define the process and product of writing in your classroom.

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Stay connected to the latest education conversations, ideas, tips, and tools with a Professional Learning Network (PLN).

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Explore 12 ways to recharge and take care of yourself.

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Develop a safe and trusting virtual community to meet your students' social and emotional needs during live remote learning

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Explore strategies to reduce your teacher workload to save time and effort.

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Explore 4 steps for developing successful online discussions

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Learn strategies to support your students’ social and emotional needs during distance learning.

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Discover ways to honor and recognize students’ accomplishments during live virtual-teaching sessions.

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Help students develop the life skills they need to become digital collaborators.

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Explore strategies for maintaining a positive presence to keep students engaged and informed in your virtual classroom

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Help students transition to the new year by teaching and fostering their growth mindset

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Explore five tips for communicating and connecting with families in order to develop a positive home and school partnership.

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Develop strategies to establish relationships and build a positive classroom community for your students.

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Examine the importance and explore different types of public products that can be used in project-based learning.

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Let’s go deeper into the key elements of project-based learning and explore strategies to support student reflection, critique, and revision.

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Explore strategies and tools that can be used to increase student voice and choice during project-based learning.

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Discover strategies for introducing project-based learning in a way that sets the stage for authentic, inquiry-based problem solving for students.

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Discover how Project-Based Learning can engage your students and motivate them to solve authentic, real-world problems during remote and hybrid learning.

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Help students actively explore real-world problems and acquire a deeper knowledge with project-based learning.

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Explore strategies and tools that students can use to create with images in your classroom.

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Explore strategies and tools that students can use to write creatively across the curriculum.

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Provide students with expanded creative opportunities by allowing them to mix together video, audio, images, writing, and animation on a multimedia canvas.

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Empower students with strategies and tools to create animations for digital storytelling, classroom communication, and personal reflections on the learning process.

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Encourage students to use audio as a way to create and express themselves using these strategies and tools.

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Develop lessons that empower students by exploring six ways for students to design, create, and produce video content.

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For our students to be informed and productive participants in the American democracy, they need to be able to effectively evaluate the credibility of online resources.

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Explore the ABCs of evaluating online resources as a way to turn your students into credibility detectives who can effectively evaluate the trustworthiness of online resources.

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Help students develop digital note-taking skills through the implementation of an engaging and sustained process.

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To be effective consumers of digital information, students need to be able to acknowledge and identify bias in all forms of media.

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To sift through the vast quantities of misleading information presented to us each day, we need to develop the skills that will inform us how to avoid being misled.

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Design lessons that empower students by giving them voice and choice in the learning process as well as an opportunity to create.

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To create well-informed citizens, we need to recognize filter bubbles and the impact they have on our information universe.

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Learn how to help your students effectively use and manage their digital learning environment.

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Empower your students with digital strategies and tools for each of the five parts of the focused note-taking process.

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Explore strategies that you and your students can use to effectively manage emails and notifications.

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Learn strategies and digital tools to teach your students how to practice academic integrity in both face-to-face and remote learning.

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Explore strategies and digital tools your students can use to effectively study at home.

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Explore strategies your students can use to power up their posts and ramp up their responses during online discussions.

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Explore strategies and tools like text to speech, translation services, and closed captioning that can make content more accessible to your students.

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Teach students to view videos and digital images with the same level of critical review that they use when reading texts.

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Flip the learning in your classroom to create more interactive and cognitively rich experiences during your face-to-face lesson.

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Increase retention by applying critical reading and viewing strategies to digital text, images, and video.

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Learn how to implement the blended-learning model of station rotation in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

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Use the best of face-to-face classroom instruction as well as online, virtual learning by implementing the hybrid model of blended learning.

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Explore ways teachers can make learning experiences more equitable by improving accessibility.

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Discover how to create a more accessible virtual learning environment by making your content ADA compliant and designing with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) process.

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Teach your students how to set up effective study spaces and routines to leverage the advantages of technology.

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Learn strategies and digital tools that students can use to effectively and efficiently organize their class materials and share their achievements.

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Increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning by using videoconferencing software in three ways.

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Learn how to implement the blended learning model of whole group rotation in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

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Learn how to implement the playlist model of blended learning in a face-to-face, remote, or hybrid classroom.

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Explore strategies and tools that will help students critically read and mark up digital documents, PDFs, and websites.

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Learn strategies and digital tools that students can use to develop their time management skills.

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Understand the core elements and most common models of blended learning.