Episode 38: The Chromebook Challenge

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News & Followup

• The Chromebook Challenge
  
• My Week With Inbox by Gmail
  

Main Course: Chromebook Crisis?

• An American Chromebook Crisis: new report shows sad trends of how students are using the devices by Andy Losik
  
• Based on a GoGuardian report that analyzes the aggregate device usage of 5 million K-12 students across the country.
  
• Ninety-one percent of teens use YouTube
  

Tech Nuggets

• Screencast-o-matic is now available for Chromebooks
• Try the Redesigned Make Beliefs Comix and the rest of that site
• Quick shout out for https://www.prodigygame.com/
• https://newseumed.org/ Jennifer Gonzalez Supports media literacy through lesson plans, resources and ideas for students. Free...create an account for all access
• https://www.youthvoices.live/ Gina Rogers: online blogging and discussion forum. Provides guidelines for genre specific writing, allows students to comment, student podcasts.
  

Podcast Picks

• The EdVantage Podcast with Clay Reisler, Taylor Baumeister, David Bentz
  
• Someone Knows Something David Ridgen, CBC Radio, takes you through cold cases..different case each season...fourth season is currently being released.
  

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