EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Seven years ago, as more software companies began offering Software as a Service, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey jumped on the emerging cloud trend. Fil Santiago, the district’s director of technology and administrative services, wanted to explore SaaS solutions so he prioritized migrating the student information system to the cloud. That first app led to another, and then another.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the most-read posts for the month of December: The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Here’s Why Your Kids Should Participate in Extracurricular Activities Coding Activities by Grade 9 Unusual Hour of Code Projects 5 Unplugged Hour of Code Activities 12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence 8+ Ways to Speed Up Your Computer How to Backup and Image Your Computer Three Projects to Kick Off the Holidays Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategie

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 5, 2024

The post Launching Our Portrait of a Graduate Initiative for More Powerful Learning Opportunities appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Largely missing from many conversations, however, is a discussion of how scientific approaches may be used to study ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in the context of higher ed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key points: Special education students deserve the same opportunities as their general education peers, including the individualized support their path may require See article: 3 simple strategies to supercharge student growth See article: Innovative ideas for school libraries For more news on special education, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page There are more than 140,000 special education (SPED) students in the state of Washington.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

TinyTap is a dynamic educational app designed for toddlers and preschoolers, aiming to transform screen time into an enriching learning experience. With a user base of over 20 million parents globally, it’s recognized as the leading learning app in 48 countries, particularly for kids aged 2-7. TinyTap’s vast library of over 200,000 interactive learning games, created by teachers, therapists, and educators, covers a broad range of subjects and skills.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 5, 2024

As 2024 kicks off, ST Math schools are getting ready to participate in one of our most popular challenge themes: The ST Math Winter Puzzle Challenge. After the holiday break, we know it can be a bit difficult to motivate students to learn again. But why does winter break get to hog all the fun?! This optional challenge is open to all ST Math schools with an active license and will focus on conquering as many puzzles as possible within our PreK-8th grade curricula.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

In today’s post, I am sharing with you my thoughts about this interesting app called CamScanner. If you are not already familiar with it, CamScanner app allows you to digitize various forms of content from documents to PDFs. The tool is seems to be revolutionizing the way we handle documents. CamScanner App Features CamScanner offers a wide range of features that are absolutely amazing, I am saying this from my own experience using the app.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Keene, NH – Acclaimed Early Learning furniture brand Whitney Brothers® today announced its new Live Edge Collection of furniture for preschool and kindergarten environments received a 2023 Best of Year Honoree award from Interior Design magazine. Now in its 18th year, Interior Design’s Best of Year contest is the preeminent global design awards program recognizing the most significant products and interior design projects of the year across a spectrum of commercial, institutional, residential, e

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 5, 2024

AI is a polarizing topic – writers tend to perceive it as a magic pill or an industry-killer. The reality, as usual, is somewhere in between and significantly depends on how we use this ground-breaking technology. Nowadays, the challenge is learning to implement AI ethically and make the best of it to facilitate the work and inspire growth. Think of using AI to write an article not instead of us but with us, enhancing our skills without substituting the author.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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SplashLearn

JANUARY 5, 2024

From preschoolers taking their first steps in letter recognition to elementary students enhancing their language skills, the letter ‘G’ offers a diverse range of words to explore. This blog delves into the G words for kids, categorizing them to suit different learning stages and needs. Whether you’re a parent or an educator, these carefully selected […] The post 72 Best G words for Kids in 2024 first appeared on SplashLearn Blog.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

Capturing screenshots and screen recordings on a Chromebook is a straightforward process that can be incredibly useful for educators, students, and anyone looking to share screen content. If you are looking for Chromebook snipping tools, you are in the right place. But before we talk about these snipping tools, you need to know that as a Chromebook user you have two options to capture screenshots (and record videos): there is the built-in functionality and there are third party Chromebook snippi

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 5, 2024

Chromebooks, as you probably know, are not just for browsing and typing up notes. They are also versatile tools for taking photos, recording videos, creating tutorials, and many more. Chromebooks are like having a mini photo/video studio right at your fingertips! In today’s post, I am walking you through a step by step guide on how you can use Chromebook’s built-in camera to take photos and videos.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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