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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. Less than 53% of American adults read at least one book for pleasure in 2019. Technology might come in handy in this case. Kids can create digital or printed books with TikaTok.

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What Are the Best Books about the History of Education Technology?

Hack Education

As many of you know, I’m working on a book proposal for Teaching Machines , a project I’ve had on the back burner for far too long now that is finally starting to come to a boil. What do you think are the best existing works of history of the field of education technology? A History of Instructional Technology (1967).

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. Prepare students for a technological society. If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Zeitz, 2008.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. One active learning technique she cites in the book, for instance, was devised by Samuel Delany, who was also a renowned science fiction author. Active learning wins. How does that work? It's a great one.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. It was changing our technology.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

The future of education is technological. To resist technology, therefore, is to undermine students’ opportunities. To resist technology is to deny students’ their future. Shoshana Zuboff weaves a very different tale in her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Necessarily so. Or so the story goes.