Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Keyboarding is a topic that most parents want their children to learn and many schools don’t have time to teach. Why learn keyboarding? Here–briefly–is a summation of the research: 1 Why Learn Keyboarding. Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. –Type to Learn, 1986.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Yes, of course!” Each time, I am immediately transported back to my early teaching experiences and forced to reckon with my past and the lessons I learned since that time. Reflecting on my earlier years in education is one thing but writing about it made me think of another cringeworthy experience: learning who I was as an educator.

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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. The changes are not just incremental; they are foundational, reshaping the very nature of how we teach and learn. The onset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is a testament to this rapid evolution.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages from Certell, provides rich content to teach the importance of Memorial Day, including material on the U.S. Course packages in American History, World History, U.S. involvement in 21st-century wars. Click to tweet. About Certell, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

André Thomas, CEO of Triseum and former Head of Graphics for EA Sports Madden Football, brings gaming to new heights on university campuses combining rigorous learning and resources with state-of-the-art graphic design. Triseum has quickly changed the landscape of the emerging Game-Based Learning (GBL) industry.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003. “There are no easy answers to complex challenges, but we can shift the paradigm and move beyond the status quo. “Innovation should spark success. This press release originally appeared online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

As colleges move into online education, they’re finding themselves in learning mode. That raises the question: Can traditional colleges learn anything from the likes of Hamburger U, McDonald’s famous inhouse training system? What did you learn from that experience that you bring to your work in higher education?

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

At the time computer literacy was in fact added to the “3 Rs”, as a required basic subject, more or less defined as : “To communicate, to locate and manage information, and to use these tools effectively to support learning the content of “the other basics.”. An astounding discovery considering many of them would have been digital natives.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And most teachers are patient pragmatists.

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EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Imagine what today’s youth could learn about history, science, and art if developers utilized the possibilities of virtual reality to create educational games instead of those about zombies and car theft. VR technology is increasing at a rapid pace, and with each new app, there is endless learning potential.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yet despite that esoteric reputation, Montessori methods aspire to similar outcomes as many others in education: to help children develop agency and independence, often through hands-on learning and open-ended, collaborative activities. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based based company has raised $70 million in venture capital.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Many working on an elementary education degree are given free rein to take whatever general education course interests them, and one called The Sexual Revolution of the 1960sno doubt proves more compelling to the average college student than a course entitled From the American Revolution to the Civil War.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Whether you’re a new teacher or have years of classroom experience, there’s always more to learn. It will also help you update and tweak lessons as needed over the course of your teaching career. Everything a New Elementary Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

UWorld , the worldwide leader in online learning to prepare for high-stakes exams, today announced the launch of AP ® (Advanced Placement ® ) Learning Tools , a new College Readiness solution to help educators enhance instruction, improve student performance, and effectively prepare for AP exams. Pemmasani, M.D., About UWorld.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300. Enrollment in construction trades courses increased by 19.3 TCAT Nashville offers 16-month to two-year courses including diesel and automotive technology and welding and construction technology, among others.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 13, 2023

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Learning has been freed from its geographical shackles and moved to the cloud creating limitless options and possibilities for ongoing growth and development. They are open to all forms of learning.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2017

I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a teacher for 51Talk, please apply here ! About Katharine.

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Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Yesterday I had the absolute privilege to join thousands of amazing educators learning and sharing their learning as part of the Google for Education on Air Event - If Takes A Teacher. I learned so much from watching fellow educators share their insights into teaching and learning throughout the day.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. Another part of 51Talk I enjoy is the depth and knowledge of their training courses for their instructors.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More and more, community colleges are offering bachelor’s degrees – using the appeal of more online courses, competency-based progression and greater flexibility in hours to attract more people. Related: More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In a flipped-classroom, blended learning environment with team-based learning it is important to consider the formation of students teams. This was something I sought to address through allocating teams in a first year undergraduate accounting course. Team Allocation and Coursework Design. References: Howieson, B.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Despite near universal device ownership, students have yet to fully embrace the smartphone as a tool for learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. By "many people," of course I mean Jared and Ivanka. We already have, of course. Do the math there on the per course costs.) AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Such proactive efforts help keep more students on track as they learn how to manage challenges in a positive way, officials said. During orientation, incoming Paul Quinn students learn about the clinic, campus services and the mental health assessment they can opt out of if they choose.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003. The Georgetown center estimates that college graduates earn, on average, $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than high school graduates. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5 and an unmet demand for these workers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

At the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, about 8,000 students have earned their ordinary course grades in an unusual way. But it’s unclear if students are actually learning more. No one is asking these students to take additional, outside assessments to measure their learning gains.

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Brainscape

MAY 18, 2022

To improve your toolbox, Brainscape has put together a list of top apps for law students and bar prep , not only to help you crush the mountain of content you’re required to learn in order to take on the mighty bar exam, but also to take a more holistic approach to excelling in law school and beyond. Here we go! (Oh,

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2011

Do you make your learning transparent to others? And as much as possible share the learning process with the person or people looking to you to help answer a question or figure out a process. What does it look like to admit and show your learning? Both myself and the teacher/participant learned something together.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Incidents like these make me wonder if we ever really learn from the past. Morrison explained why in an interview with English professor Anne Koenen soon after the book was published: Men have more to learn in certain areas than women do. I want him [Milkman] to learn how to surrender, and to dominate—dominion and surrender.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2003, Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler conducted an experiment at Best Buy headquarters , where they worked in human resources. We might think of the following as examples of student autonomy: Playlists and self-paced learning. And this, among other reasons, cause some students to struggle with self-directed learning.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

In order to prepare students for the future, the practices of teaching and learning – indeed the whole notion of “school” – must embrace tech-centered courseware and curriculum. Personalized learning relies on data extraction and analysis; it urges and rewards students and promises everyone will reach “mastery.”

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