Edsurge
APRIL 9, 2018
Losing a pencil in the classroom may be annoying—but at least they’re cheap to replace. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. Microsoft was one of the first big tech companies to market styluses to schools. What’s in a Pen?
EdTechTeacher
MAY 4, 2015
Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. With every generation of computing technology, a small group of educators has been able to use new tools in transformative ways, but on the whole, classroom practices have proven stubbornly resistant to change.
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The Web20Classroom
MAY 19, 2011
While I love this site I needed something else to help give teachers a leg up on specific software they use in their classroom and I needed it to be easy to follow and understand. The site contains tutorials for all major Microsoft Office Products like Word, Excel, Publisher, Power Point and Access, both the 2003 version and the 2007 version.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. The company has also partnered with Microsoft to bring its speech-recognition tools onto its cloud computing platform Azure. Let's call the whole thing off!
EdTechSandyK
JUNE 14, 2012
Professionally produced videos which show knowledgeable practitioners demonstrating teaching practices that work in their classrooms. Get inspired with some new approaches to try out in your classroom! Classroom 2.0 One of my favorites is Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Topics include, computers, reading, and math.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. Gee: The first game I played was Adventures of the New Time Machine , in 2003.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2017
In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.
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