Professional Development
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New Offerings from WGTE’s Educational Resource Center
Critical Thinking in the “Fake News” Era: Evaluating Online Sources (1 hour)
Current events have called attention to issues surrounding "fake news,"-- sources that target the preexisting biases of their audience to manipulate their thoughts and actions. The 2016 election... Read more -
2017 Technology Standards Rollout PD Update
On October 30, ERC staff, along with approximately 50 northwest Ohio educators and administrators, attended the Ohio Department of Education’s Revised Technology Standards professional development session in Bowling Green. Participants were engaged in standards review, tech integration... Read more
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Google Workshops for Educators
Many schools have signed up for Google's free toolkit G Suite for Education. It can be hard for teachers to know where to start due to the sheer number of tools available: Classroom, Documents, Forms, Drive, etc. WGTE is here to help with workshops designed to help you decide how to use these... Read more
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Invention Literacy and MakeyMakey
MakeyMakey has been called the “Invention Kit for the 21st Century” and it allows beginner through experts to engineer everyday objects into touchpads. The computer treats the MakeyMakey kit as it would any mouse input, so it works with all programs and webpages, and, as long as the... Read more