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Stop Celebrating Low-Level Learning

Tom Murray

In the spring of 2002, I was teaching 4th grade in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. That’s right, in 2002, 17 years ago, we were 1:1. Image Credit: The Morning Call, 2002 “I’d love to see these units become standard equipment for all students in five to ten years.” Murray, 2002 (HAHA!!) Palm Pilots.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. They can show you have to use technology to unlock deeper student relationships with your students.

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Impero Software partners with Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program to Provide Schools with Student Safety and MDM Software

techlearning

6, 2018 – Impero Software, global specialists in remote monitoring and management software for education, has partnered with the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program, a statewide cooperative of Illinois K-12 educational entities, to provide Illinois schools with student safety software and mobile device management solutions.

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5 Augmented and Virtual Reality Creation Tools for Students

Shake Up Learning

Luckily, augmented and virtual reality tools (often abbreviated AR and VR respectively) are becoming readily accessible to anyone with a smartphone, tablet or even a Chromebook. The technology giants of the world have found ways so that the average person can create their own AR and VR worlds with very little training or gear.

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Back to School with Applied Digital Skills

EdTechTeam

If the new technology apps and terminology that your students and teens use are like a foreign language to you, then you’re not alone. As a result, many teachers and parents are constantly trying to stay current with the latest technology trends for kids. The lesson we chose was entitled, “Technology, Ethics, and Security.”

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

I’ve been studying the mobile technology world for a while, ever since helping do some research for Howard Rheingold’s Smartmobs (2002). The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets. A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**.

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