Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 4, 2024
When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom.
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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Edsurge
APRIL 9, 2018
Losing a pencil in the classroom may be annoying—but at least they’re cheap to replace. Their battery-powered pens for the Surface tablet cost up to $100 each and claim to have 4,096 different pressure points for precision. The company currently markets the product as a tool to enhance creativity in the classroom.
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. Tablet computers didn’t take off until a decade later. 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.
Edsurge
JUNE 5, 2018
And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. We were talking about tablets, games, books and other kinds of services. There are a bunch of ways that teachers have always personalized learning in the classroom, scaffolding different kids’ learning so that they get different kinds of support.
MindShift
JULY 27, 2015
We recommend keeping ample time for recess in school, as well as carving out time for kids to have more choice in activities in the classroom so they are able to use their imagination, build and make things, interact with others, and have some ownership over what and how they are learning. offer the timewheel tool in Figure 8.1
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.
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