Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2019

It seems equally crazy, impossible and risky in 2019 to unravel centuries of established classroom and school structures, update pedagogy and curriculum to reflect 21st century competencies and, perhaps most importantly, reverse deeply entrenched inequities in our education system. In education, we tend to do the opposite.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There are a lot of definitions in regards to STEM education usually in regards to the nouns including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Make sure this definition is understood by everyone including those educators that may not think of themselves as STEM. Create a clear vision and mission for STEM in the school or district.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2020

Most of the current research and classroom innovation around deeper learning point to a recurring, if not central theme: authenticity and real-world experience. Let’s begin with a quick overview of these findings, then dive into practical resources and technologies that can help us enhance authentic experiences to deeper student learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. It’s not because these students and teachers have a peculiar penchant for fetid footsies. In one year, the rate for those 53 students jumped from 46% to 65%.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Lincoln School second grade teacher Kelsi Iturralde works with her guided reading group of students Wednesday Oct. She is seeing that after returning to a classroom from being home during the pandemic, more students are behind, socio-emotionally and academically. Credit: John Walker/The Fresno Bee. Why it works.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Buncee has been a favorite tool in my classroom for the past couple of years. We've tried a lot of different ways for using Buncee in the classroom, many of which have been a result of the creativity and out-of-the-box thinking from the students. Is it appropriate for students? and even student artwork! 360 images.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

And when teachers want to learn more about incorporating digital citizenship in the classroom, Common Sense Education provides a wealth of resources to help them take that first step. LA Unified has two separate social media policies: one for employees and one for students. So what does that look like?

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Policies Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 23, 2019

The post 60 Tools to Inspire Students with Chromebooks – SULS009 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Chromebooks have transformed classrooms! But we have to find tools that will engage and inspire our students to be creative thinkers and innovators. 60 Tools to Inspire Students with #Chromebooks! Here we go!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

This was in early 2019. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard,” says Deepak Cheenath, co-founder of Quizizz, a classroom tool that lets teachers create pop quizzes and games.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As teachers and students, parents and principals, settle into this strange new school year, they say they are just beginning to understand the effects of last year’s disruptions. Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Take digital citizenship, an area that is evolving before our eyes, and one that by definition cannot possibly be taught from print materials. Focus on student engagement above all. All the new initiatives to bolster social studies curricula could be for naught if the actual content doesn’t strike a chord with students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

When DC + XQ collected and shared information with them about how their students had fared during the health crisis, “the data was really compelling to us,” said Kira Rowe, a school counselor at Coolidge. “It It was definitely eye-opening.” An idea floated about using social media as part of a classroom activity.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When and how much should students be using technology in class? What is the best way to set up my classroom for device use? How can I make sure I am protecting student privacy when using technology? Are there benefits to allowing student phones in the classroom? Thomas, Edutopia, September 3, 2019).

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Technology Digital Citizenship Policies LMS 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

eBooks have changed the definition of textbooks completely. Though digital courseware has a broad definition, all solutions share some common characteristics-. Research has shown time and again that students who are engaged fare much better than those who are withdrawn or disengaged. Education Technology / June 13, 2019.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. Students from Meriden, students from Connecticut and Latino students in general are going to be looking at him … and have an opportunity to say, ‘Yes, this could be me.’

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

in January 2019. The appearances were mostly a formality: A new, hardline transit ban that took effect nationwide in September 2019 automatically disqualified them from asylum. But it definitely [is] an uphill battle.”. Sandra Vásquez, Concepción Ventura and their family pose for a family portrait.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Flipped Classroom". He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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