Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And has a mobile app for educators, students and families. Has a great gradebook supporting traditional points-based classrooms and standards based grading. It provides powerful assessment options to support every subject, grade level, and pedagogical method. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Roman Empire , 2016 |TV-MA This stylish mix of documentary and lavish historical epic chronicles the turbulent, violent reigns of Commodus, Julius Caesar and Caligula. Rise of Empires: Ottoman , Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Educators and legislators must remember that the key to closing the poverty gap in this country and alleviating citizen need for social services is educational attainment , which opens the door to social and economic mobility through employment. Or, at least that used to be the case. Due to this reality, reform was demanded.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping it simple.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

E-learning is mobile. Kids live in the same world as we do, and they keep up pretty well in terms of mobile devices ownership. A recent Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey clearly states that the number of students who regularly use a tablet has grown compared to the previous year. The answer is Brasilia, FYI).

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A Comparative Analysis of Student Motivation in Traditional Classroom and E-Learning Courses. Interactive Learning Environments, 2016, 24(6), pp. Learning in a mobile age: An investigation of student motivation. If you show why you love learning, your students are more likely to catch your enthusiasm, too. Sources : Rovai, A.,

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2017

From mobile devices to gaming and online learning, students are ready to take charge of their learning, often outpacing their schools in their use of these digital tools for learning. But they want more options, and said they would take more courses, and take a variety of subjects, if possible.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In November 2016, over 250 school district leaders, researchers, thought leaders, and other partners came to Baltimore, Maryland to learn from one of the nation’s most forward-thinking school districts, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). It’s about success.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

Multiverse— founded in London in 2016 under the name WhiteHat by the son of a former U.K. As a company that recruits and trains apprentices on behalf of other employers, the Multiverse model resembles that of Techtonic , a Colorado company that has trained aspiring software developers since 2016. Techtonic raised $6 million in 2019.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping in simple. Want to set your students up for real-world success?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Chicago-based Parker Dewey, which launched in 2016, facilitates short-term contract projects, such as blogging, social media or data cleanup, that typically are done remotely, require 10 to 40 hours of work total and pay $20 to $25 per hour. About a quarter of interns receive offers to extend or get hired full time, Holroyd Pearce said.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

Through the use of iMacs, Adobe Creative Design Suite, and digital cameras, students flock to his courses to unleash their creativity and partake in innovative learning activities. This is extremely relevant as about 1/3 of Americans and 760 million people globally will own a tablet in 2016.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 29, 2023

Many learners today opt for eLearning courses of varying disciplines and levels. This flexibility and accessibility make eLearning courses hugely popular. Summing Up The Structure of eLearning Courses eLearning classes are delivered through online learning platforms. Here’s what we’ll cover.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Without further ado, here are the top 10 posts on the NEO Blog: And the top e-learning trends for 2016 are… …The cloud classroom, the Internet of Things, augmented learning, BYOD, and personalized learning! How to create beautiful online courses: colors. Top 10 BYOD concerns and how to overcome them [Part 2].

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

million, on the heels of their official market launch and initial game release due June 1st, 2016, raising the total investment to nearly $2 million. Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Kamara, who is Black, was enrolled in an “audio engineering” course that taught her how to make music tracks and videos instead of a regular engineering course that she recalls was mostly filled with white students. That was a hard pill to swallow.”. Credit: Jessica Hill for The Associated Press.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Surely a lot has changed!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

During the 2015-2016 school year, most of the family-dependent Pell students came from households making less than $40,000 a year, according to the College Board. Of course, even when additional aid is available to lower the cost of college, some students will not study STEM.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Of course, we need to be aware of the access and opportunities our students, and we have today, and playtime, time without access in front of a screen, are all essential elements of our lives. In the context of schools, we have to recognize that while students are around others, the use of technology can still be done in isolation.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 don’t pursue STEM courses because they find the subjects too difficult. But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Alex Blumberg, the co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Media, a podcast network, shared about that kind of intimacy during a 2016 Podcast Movement talk: The Second Golden Age of Audio. There’s an authenticity to it that is difficult to produce in any other communication channel.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

For example, Denise Maduli-Williams, a faculty member at San Diego Mesa College, sends mobile, motivational video messages to her students via Twitter and Instagram. Tracy Schaelen, of Southwestern College, uses micro-videos to greet students and help them navigate an online course.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Peak Performance Mathematics Bridge Program —a six-week summer course for students who place below the first math class in their chosen field of study. The awards focus on underrepresented students because college remains our country’s greatest driver of socioeconomic mobility,” Barajas-Murphy says. Success, of course, breeds success.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Of course, Chromebooks are the ubiquitous device in many classrooms, not mobile phones. Be sure to check out the following links for more information: Way back in 2016, I talked about using the camera of a Chromebook. This feature should be available on your Chromebook if you have ChromeOS version 89 or higher. Give it a try!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2019

A four-year university-wide study conducted by Florida Virtual Campus reports that 70% of the respondents surveyed said that they had spent at least $300 on textbooks in the year 2016. Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content. WANT TO KNOW HOW KITABOO WORKS?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

They largely market edtech tools and services, like online tutoring and digital courses, directly to consumers, not to institutions. Case in point: Online course provider Coursera reported more than 13 million new registered users since mid-March, a 535 percent increase from the same period last year. billion in venture capital.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Joseph Ball (Curriculum Coordinator, Crash Course), Kevin Baloyi (Teacher at LEAP Science and Maths School), Karen Blumberg (Technology Coordinator, The Brearley School), Tudor Clee (Touchable Earth), Tosca Killoran (NIST International School), Dr. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

When Richmond Promise launched in 2016, 33 percent of students in the program experienced summer melt, said Jessie Stewart, the executive director. About 2,500 students in Beyond 12’s coaching corps have virtual coaches and about 47,000 students use its mobile platforms for help with filling out forms or finding services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

That and other factors combined to rank Stony Brook third nationally on the researchers’ “social mobility” index. But access to institutions that are flipping that narrative and boosting social mobility, like 26,814-student Stony Brook, has declined. Philosophically, we should do everything we can to promote social mobility.”.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain. They unlock educational content through the power of storytelling, rich digital media, location-awareness, maps, and augmented reality (Edmonds & Smith, 2016).

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? This will allow educators to tailor courses as per students’ needs. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Intensive” doesn’t quite capture the dedication that these courses require. Py It’s that familiar story of Ivy League students who built something during their spare time: The duo behind Py created their first mobile course on Python as undergraduates at Yale and Brown, which proved popular in Russia.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Late in the 2015-2016 school year, district level administrators from Wolf Creek Public Schools approached Moore’s team about developing a pilot online program, the Enhanced Learning Model (ELM). This included improving the wireless internet, ensuring access to mobile devices and a high standard of tech and training support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Gone are the days when a college advisor’s main duty was to help students choose their major and register for courses. The intention is that users can open the mobile app and quickly see how much progress they’ve made towards earning their degrees.

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