A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. Paradigm shifts need to be driven by change agents in classrooms, schools, districts, and other educational organizations across the globe. At this point change began to happen at a rapid pace. Barrett, P.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. Frustrated with how limiting your classroom projector is? But apparently 10 million isn’t enough for Google. Read below.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2016

An environment that will help teachers and students in an iPad cart classroom create a personalized learning experience. In many classrooms, mine included, each student was assigned a numbered iPad out of the cart in the back of the room, and each class would share that cart. With the release of iOS 9.3 Prior to iOS 9.3,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 8, 2021

How to integrate Mindstamp into the classroom: Mindstamp is an obvious choice for creating learning experiences that can be viewed and interacted with asynchronously. During our remote learning, we used Mindstamp for daily community messages that encouraged students to be part of the conversation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

I joke that we do macro and micro personalization. One of the major downsides of face-to-face professional learning, for which there is still an institutional bias, is that it’s just not scalable. Districts have to release teachers from their classrooms to attend, but it’s getting hard and harder to find substitutes.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Lexia Reading Core5 (Core5) will integrate directly with Schoolwork, a powerful new iPad app from Apple that helps teachers create assignments and handouts, see student progress and tap into the power of apps in the classroom – all right from their district or school-managed iPads. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Resources You Can Use in the Classroom. I have one my sister gave me for Savannah college of Art and design that they did with the iPhone. ” Music and Learning: Why Teachers Should Consider Music in the Classroom | The Inspired Classroom. The research on why music is so helpful in the classroom.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. Defeat strange and funny monsters using basic math and problem-solving skills; it is a fun way to do math homework and practice the math learned in the classroom. The free app requires iOS 11.0

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

The brainchild of Schoology and myself, we set out in mid-August to plan an unprecedented free conference that would provide educators of varying experience with practical strategies to successfully integrate technology in the classroom. In the near future he will have free iPhone and Droid apps. Lisa Nielsen was absolutely fabulous.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 8, 2021

How to integrate Mindstamp into the classroom: Mindstamp is an obvious choice for creating learning experiences that can be viewed and interacted with asynchronously. During our remote learning, we used Mindstamp for daily community messages that encouraged students to be part of the conversation.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2017

My iPhone is a computer, and it’s natural to take notes on it. I would rather have someone on Facebook in a meeting that does amazing work than a person who is writing notes that do a crappy job. I believe this applies to classrooms and in employment). I’m a digital native. Output should be the measure, not compliance. (I

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The Mobile Native

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We''re looking for presentations about topics that address topics like: Web-based tools Netbooks and laptops iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone Mobile phones Classroom management One-to-one learning environments Personalized learning Collaborative learning Project-based learning Inquiry learning Research about mobile learning Assistive technology Common (..)

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. Skype took off and more and more teachers are using it in the classroom. Kids draw images representing what their year will be like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

Another suggests that teachers might show up in classrooms, not in person, but as holograms. She hopes to one day own an iPhone 21, “with 21 cameras on it,” but for now she’s OK not having a phone at all. The six students are chatting in an empty classroom at Belmont. Noelani Velasco Polley agrees. By Chelsea Sheasley.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meanwhile, the schools that shared their ideas focused on student-centered learning and models that honor the differences in students and “think about personalized learning beyond just technology.” She cited research that every seven minutes, a black person dies prematurely due to discrimination. She wants to change that.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 18, 2016

Resources Dropbox Like It’s Hot Dropbox for Teachers The Best Online Cloud Storage Solutions for your iPad & iPhone Dropbox In The Classroom: 4 Great Uses 2. If you want to go deeper with LinkedIn discussions and groups, and build a personal learning network that connects with other educators, you can!

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I wish my teachers had access to the digital tools and resources available in our classrooms today. There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. I would keep a list of the next three things I wanted to learn. I would steadily learn about those things until I integrated them into my classroom. I use a Swivl and my iPhone. Just three, no more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

public schools and learning what it means to be a student. Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. billion strong.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) I was so green at this point in my career that I probably assumed every classroom in the 21st century operated this way. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation. I didn't realize what we were trying to build was innovative.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Tips and Tricks I've Learned from Experience From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Online and face-to-face spaces blend to create a today’s classroom. ” When bricks and clicks combine into a powerful learning experience for students, we have an effective blended classroom.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Squared Online" bridges the gap between the classic classroom experience, where you can’t get scale, and e-learning that can sometimes be a bit dry. It offers a more experiential learning experience.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Squared Online" bridges the gap between the classic classroom experience, where you can’t get scale, and e-learning that can sometimes be a bit dry. It offers a more experiential learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Math games for kids encourage children to learn and improve their essential addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills while having fun with their family or playing with other students in the classroom. It is a fun way to do math homework and kids practice math learned in the classroom.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 31, 2015

It contained my blog as well as a screenshot of my home screen on my iPhone. I asked students to look at this one piece of my digital life and see what they could learn about how I use technology. We will continue to revisit these topics in classrooms and during library projects and lessons throughout the year.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Consider this: Bill Gates has poured billions of dollars into what he calls the “future of learning” - and Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new $50M ed-tech investment. Both with a big push towards personalized learning. Educators just can’t personalize if they’re dealing with an over-crowded classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

I am a tech innovator, and my students are just like those kids in the Microsoft commercial— you know the one starring the rapping teacher in the bright blue vest with perfect hair, in the classroom where everyone looks happy and enthusiasm is exploding. Except that isn’t real, at least not in my experience. I was baffled.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“Personalized learning,” for example, is arguably thousands of years old, and we can date the idea of individualizing education by using machines back to the 1920s. But collecting data about schools and classrooms, measuring student performance, measuring teacher performance are also practices with very long histories.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 27, 2022

Google Classroom is finding increased use in delivering online classes and enabling learners to connect with instructors. Google Classroom when integrated with KITABOO, an award-winning content publishing and delivery platform, greatly enhances the teaching and learning experience. What is Google Classroom?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Via Getting Smart : “How Competency-Based Education Can Lead to A More Equitable Classroom.” classrooms,” Axios claims. Speaking of child exploitation, this via The Financial Times : “ Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour.” ” “Personalization.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future. Via The New York Times : “ Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

.” Via David Perry : “A professor of Atmospheric Sciences stepped down (he was 70) at the University of Illinois rather than appropriately address accommodations in his classroom. ” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. “ Will AI Be The Next Big Thing In The Classroom?

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