Episode 12: The Summer Sizzle

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 Hot Topic: Has Homework Taken Students Hostage?

• Teacher absolutely nails it with new homework policy.​
• John Hattie on BBC Radio 4: “Homework in primary school has an effect of zero”
• Forget Homework
• Homework: Give It Purpose or Give It Death!​
• A New Program and a New Approach to Homework
• ​The Thing About Homework

Catching Up with the Summer Sizzle

• Mindy became a Seesaw Ambassador! 
  • Check out Seesaw Plus for an extra month by scanning this code!

• We went to ISTE!
  • Lots of Edtech 'gods' walking around!
  • Jonathan had coffee with Dr. Wesley Fryer.
  • Minecraft Education Edition is here!
    • Create a bar graph with Minecraft.
      
    • Create natural disasters in your world.
  • George Couros makes Mindy cry.
  • Mindy, Stacy, and Gina shared "Put a Badge On It."
    
  • Hall Davidson's "AR, VR, and QR"
  • Bill Selak's "iPhoneography"
    
  • Jason Ohler: "Trends that Bend"
  • Dr. Carnahan, Dr. Hummel, Dr. Arsiwala: "Tips for Online Courses"
    
• Google Expeditions has arrived at GWAEA!
• iPadU 2016 is in the books! Resources from ALL sessions here.
  
• Clay Reisler, Josh Allen, Sarah Lalk, Anna Upah were featured presenters!
  

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Tech Nuggets

• Check out Osmo.
• Duck, Duck, Moose Apps are free forever!
• Google Cast for Education
• Mevo Camera

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