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This November, let's make our classrooms more accessible by shining the spotlight on Google Chrome's cool tools! Live Captions are like having subtitles for everything, perfect for our ML listeners. Switching languages on Chromebooks is as easy as pie, helping our bilingual students feel right at home. Finally, Chrome Reading Mode turns any page into a cozy reading corner, perfect for those chilly fall days. These features make learning fun and inclusive for all of our students!

Google News- November 2024 by kelli.cannon

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Happy Halloween! Discover the tricks and treats Google has in store for you this October.

Need to customize a Google app URL for your learners? The Sir Links-a-Lot Chrome extension allows you to easily create templates, force copies, generate previews, or convert URLs to PDFs with a single click.

GEG Utah kicked off the year with their first meetup! Co-leader Emma Moss introduced the annual theme, "Cultivate and Innovate with Google," and showcased Google's Musical Canvas, an engaging student activity blending AI, art, and music.

Eric Curts from “Control Alt Achieve” shared Halloween-themed educational activities with Google tools including:

🎃 Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides

👻 Halloween Rebus Stories with Emojis and Google Docs

🦇 Halloween Drag and Drop Poetry with Google Drawings

💀 Skittles and Google Sheets Math Activities

Google News- October 2024 by kelli.cannon

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Are you looking for a way to increase your digital skills and knowledge? The DTL team is offering two 16-hour classes, which would meet the 32-hour requirement for your Educator Directed Paid Professional Development.  These courses are self-paced and begin on October 2nd. All coursework must be completed by March 29th to qualify for the program.

32-Hour Directed Educator Pay DTL Course Sign-Up

Using School AI Effectively in the Classroom

Using SchoolAI Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a remarkable entry into education, leaving educators with a mix of emotions. In this course we’ll help you navigate this new frontier by looking at different types of AI and how they’re used, the ethical challenges and dilemmas of AI in education, how AI changes teaching and learning, and how you can design activities and assessments with AI in mind.  By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about how AI fits, or doesn’t fit, into their teaching practice.

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Teaching Digital Citizenship

In this course, participants will learn what digital citizenship is, how to teach students to be responsible digital citizens, and how to talk with students openly about cyberbullying and other potential pitfalls of social media. Participants will learn how to model digital citizenship and develop tools and lessons to use with students of all ages.

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Instructor Contact Information: Kiera Beddes