Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

At Play in the Cosmos will sell for $35 when it is slated to become a standalone computer or tablet app next fall. For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Image Credit: W. Norton & Company.

Video 146

Video Game-Based Learning Company Survey 146

techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

These programs include the KIBO robot, a developmentally appropriate robotics construction set; and ScratchJr , a visual, block-based programming language for tablets. Although I have been a professor at Eliot Pearson since 2001, my own doctoral training is not as a developmentalist, but as a designer of technologies for children.

Pearson 41

Pearson Study Robotics STEM 41

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Annual testing of students became a federal requirement after 2001, and that sometimes affected instruction. Test administrators brought their own tablets and internet routers to testing sites. Disproportionately poor, and sometimes not speaking English at home, Hispanics tend to score considerably lower than white students.

Education 110

Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 110

Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2016

A cell phone or tablet with expanded memory could take and store pictures. The result is that two adults expanded their verbal language capabilities. Modern technology could make the Pictorium easier to manage. They ended up with thousands and thousands of pictures, all displayed in various ways. References: Plato, G., & Jönsson, B.

Smartphone 40

Smartphone Libraries Tablets Video 40

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Another nationwide study found that children under 12 years old have approximately two hours of free time during the day and that this decreases as they get older (Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Courtesy of Denise Pope. Unfortunately, time for free play within school hours has also declined.

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Another aspect is the gradual disintegration of computing , as we move from desktops to laptops to tablets, phones, cameras, trackers, and gewgaws attached to various locations in our spaces and on our bodies. post-2001) web. I expect to see numerous stories along these lines in 2016. One major old-school open project shut down.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Livingstone 2001). (13). The study of teaching adults. An initialism that stands for “Bring Your Own Device.” Learning Simulation. students redirect attention from their screens to teacher as guide).

Technology 40

Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Elena Gomez, an assistant teacher at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn, plays a new tablet-based math game with a student. “I feel like children are learning so much more now,” said Kendall, who was inspired to leave a communications job at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank, and become a teacher after Sept. Photo: Jamie Martines.

Training 40

Training Classroom Study Groups 40

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What grade levels are most affected?

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130