eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

David Lockhart started teaching high school history in 2004. He had to find that thing that made his lessons stand out, and he saw it with technology. For the last four years, he has been an instructional technologist who coaches, trains, and speaks full time. Check it out!

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

HTML5 The development of HTML5 has been underway since 2004. Cloud computing is an up and coming trend, but it is also a technology that is in need of improvement. Google Docs and Prezi are great, but are still not on equal footing with perennial favorites like MS Office. This situation always happens with new technologies.

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techlearning

MARCH 26, 2018

CDI Computer Dealers , a leading provider of technology to schools, is helping schools transition to the Chromebook ecosystem and is now meeting the Chromebook needs of more than 2,000 schools and districts. asset disposition services for aging technology. CDI Computer Dealers is a one-stop-shop for schools’ Chromebook initiatives.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 16, 2018

I have truly learned so much about teaching, learning, and technology. The last time I taught fifth grade was in 2004 , and I am so incredibly excited about spending an entire school year with my own group of young learners again. The workshops take place in Google Classroom, and I teach them from my house. Workshop Leader?

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

Really Simple Syndication for me was the poster child technology for the era where the early internet began to shift from a place where only certain folks with technical skill and software could contribute to the web to a place where user-generated content was now dominant and more importantly, anyone could easily interact with that content.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

The Sakai Project, an effort to build a community-source learning-management system as an alternative to commercial systems like Blackboard, started with great fanfare and grant support in 2004—but its use has shrunk to less than 3 percent of the LMS market in North America in 2018, according to a report by e-Literate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. We have the technology to move this water.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2019

When I was a newly minted college professor in New Orleans in the winter of 2004, I began writing regular editorials for the Louisiana Weekly , a newspaper devoted to the city’s black community. Typically, black media took it much harder. As the saying goes, when white folks catch a cold, black folks get pneumonia.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

Robust Infrastructure is the technology, networks, hardware, and other resources (including policy) that make deeper experiences possible without detracting from the learning. Technology and the infrastructure that enables it—from the devices to the networks to the cloud—are vital to modern education. And to some extent, that’s okay.

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ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

" Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias ," by Audrey Watters: "As a woman who writes online about technology, I have grown far too tired of ‘permission-less-ness.’ Here, for your weekend reading pleasure, are 5 links and a video. " Whose digital utopia does ‘openness’ represent?"

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Likewise, why should a more seasoned teacher have to struggle with a newer technology that the new teacher knows and can help her learn? We can help new teachers and administrators with collaborative technology tools. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

NPS is also home to well over 100 certified Google Educators , trainers, and innovators. He began his teaching career at Newington High School in 1985, before being appointed principal in 2004. The home-grown system is used by teachers and administrators to inform instructional decisions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Antoinette Siu) According to Wellington Reither, senior advisor to Crow, planning for ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus began around 2004. He worries about whether innovations like online education or scaled technology strategies can help grow mature, responsible citizens. Seeing the good ideas.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

Google Scholar : Launched in 2004, Google Scholar is one of the primary first steps many students take in finding scholarly research online. And here are just a few other ways to keep your faculty and your younger scholars current with emerging research as well as grey literature. You may be able to connect them.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. A growing number of businesses are listening. Degree inflation.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

It’s now 2016 and educators still have not discovered the power of infusing a balance of asynchronous and synchronous technologies, as well as engagement into their online classroom. Instructors should incorporate engagement techniques such as brief, live streamed online lectures using Google Hangouts , Zoom , Adobe Connect to name a few.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Google Santa Tracker Google Santa Tracker is a platform developed by Google which allows people with Internet connection to track and find where Santa is. Since its launch in 2004, Google Santa Tracker has added a wide variety of interesting and fun features making it one of the best Santa trackers out there.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

However, all of these great practices were so numerous and time-consuming that successfully implementing visible learning was often overwhelming for teachers—but can today’s technology mitigate those time concerns? Using Today’s Technology to Make Visible Learning Easy. Why Teachers Should Turn to Visible Learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion, and competing agendas at teachers. A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! The company was renamed “Amplify.”

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

He had been playing since 2004—his teams were back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 2005 and 2006—so he knew the game intimately. Digital technology made the task easy: rather than sifting through a week’s worth of newspaper clippings for the players’ standings and statistics, he could simply look online.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Classroom technologies make it easier than ever to collect information on students. When Pletnick joined the district in 2004, she had to find a way to manage the surging student population and, with it, students’ different academic needs. Now, teachers must figure out the best way to analyze that data and put it to good use.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

She also has worked at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute and the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education and currently serves as the director of educational technology at North Shore Country Day School. Gray is an educational innovation consultant working with schools, organizations, and corporations.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 22, 2018

I began teaching teenagers in 2004 in Texas. My new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , has 10 digital missions to help teachers support their teenage students in establishing their identities and defining their goals using technology and digital devices. 17 Mathematical GIFs That Are Deeply Soothing.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. For the last two years, she has served as the assistant superintendent over educational and technology services. Her experience has allowed her to marry the technology and the educational services departments. You can follow him on Twitter @scaughtsb. Dr. Ryan has a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

They said thank you for Spanish-language books, science projects and entire class sets of Google Expeditions. She posted her first request—for a microscope—back in 2004, and since then has put up a steady stream of project proposals aimed at bringing the latest resources and technology to her students. “I

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EdTechTeam

MAY 20, 2020

I think back to August of 2004 when I interviewed for my first teaching position. Natasha was selected to take part in the first cohort of Our Voice Academy through EdTechTeam, a group of minority educational technology leaders from across the nation. To see bigger dreams for them than they can see for themselves.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last reauthorized in 2004, with amendments in 2015, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were updated back in 2008, the demand for accessibility and equality in education continues to grow. Step 4: Conduct regular accessibility audits.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

The Role of Technology During COVID. Even though many had been using technology in the classroom, they were not ready for the full-on virtual digital learning environment COVID demanded. Leveraging technology to support all student learners is essential. Access and connectivity must be equitable. Professional Learning.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. For example , a few years back “Integrating Technology” into the curriculum was the focus for my school. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I will not be assigning penance today – although as a scholar of history and culture, I do want you (all of us, really) to think about what we’ve done; to think about what we’ve said; to think about the stories we tell about the future of technology and education. I’m interested in what we believe technology will do.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

They described how districts and schools successfully used sophisticated technology to read students’ “digital signals” to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. Technology, in this case, proved to be (sometimes literally) a lifesaver. Data: The Driving Force. Digital Mental Health Signals, Too. About the Presenters.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 23, 2011

I''ve been a Google educator since 2004 I love me my Google! I''ve been championing my district to have a Google Server & use the Educational apps! blogger filtering Google information censorship' Then all the educational blogs out there - including mine - would not be blocked. bp.blogspot.com).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Education Technology and (Decades and Decades of) Quackery.

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