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. It’s a transformation that’s been largely driven by the unprecedented pace of technological advancement. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly. And guess what?

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As the digital dawn, dawned, and the internet ballooned (or blossomed depending on your point of view), great strides were made in the development, understanding and application of education technology and technology education. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., Further elaborating on the flexibility and opportunities UDL offers, Evans (2010) notes that it provides “flexibility and opportunity for teachers and students by incorporating collaborative partnerships, technology tools, and differentiated instruction” (p.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

The future of education is technological. To resist technology, therefore, is to undermine students’ opportunities. To resist technology is to deny students’ their future. These technologies foreclose rather than foster future possibilities. Necessarily so. Or so the story goes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. That means in the course of that class session, if a student makes a comment, they give up one of their Popsicle sticks. Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. How does that work?

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EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Advancements in VR Technology. VR technology is increasing at a rapid pace, and with each new app, there is endless learning potential. The system is comprised of a peripheral camera originating from 2003, motion controllers first released in 2010, and a headset that emerged from a personal 3D theater in 2012.

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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. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. How well have you seen that approach go? And they would often say, ‘Well, I don't know.’

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

A nationwide study that Next Gen Personal Finance conducted in 2018-2019 of more that 11,000 high school course catalogs found that in 23 states and Washington D.C., fewer than 5 percent of students were required to take a standalone semester of a personal finance course.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

We piloted our first LBMLG in a core undergraduate Business course involving more than 400 students in 2014. Their feedback was very encouraging and the LBMLG has been embedded in the course since then, now engaging over 1,000 students each year. “

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. It’s a grand vision—and one that has recently secured big funding from leading education investors.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It will also help you update and tweak lessons as needed over the course of your teaching career. Take advantage of technological and online resources. Are you looking for ideas on incorporating technology into your classroom? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. There are tons of resources and blog posts to help you out.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

sometimes still in uniform, and pull into a massive parking lot shared by the local community college and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, or TCAT. 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

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” Textbooks are written by academics and historians, of course. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

“We are very proud to have laid a foundation and company culture built on rigorous curriculum, and innovative, bleeding-edge digital technology,” said André Thomas, CEO of Triseum recently profiled in The Huffington Post (with Robyn Shulman (me). He worked on the 3D feature film Valiant in 2003, after which he worked on Ant Bully.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

That issue came up when EdSurge sat down with Donna Kidwell, who is the chief technology officer of Arizona State University’s EdPlus, which coordinates much of the online education done by the university. Kidwell: Back in 2003, real estate was a crazy market. Because of course they were delivering courses to 40,000 students already.

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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. Web technologies are now part and parcel of the teaching pedagogy and since the pandemic they have even taken center stage. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This combination was not only the mainstay for entertainment and commerce, it also became the technological touchstone for many courses and programmes of study. Sadly, much of education has been slow to exploit the potential of social technologies, and in particular has not grasped the huge potential of social games.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Naked Scientists are a team of dedicated scientists on a mission to help the public audience engage with science, technology, and medicine. StoryCorps StoryCorps launched in 2003 with the mission of preserving and sharing humanity's stories. The goal is to create intercultural bridges and create a compassionate world.

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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. Being able to provide this experience to learners because of today’s technology is incredibly rewarding as a teacher. Once I had all the technological kinks worked out, it’s been smooth sailing!

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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. Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Unported License.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Yes, of course!” I was developing alongside them, and the person I am today is way different than the person I was in 2003 when I became a middle school ELA teacher. Like many young males, he struggled with dueling identities of being the cool kid or pursuing academic excellence at the risk of becoming “unpopular” with his classmates.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They categorize prior knowledge into declarative and procedural types, assessing their influence on students’ success in university science courses. appeared first on Educators Technology. Journal of Research in Science Teaching , 18, 291–294. Education and thinking: The role of knowledge. American Psychologist , 39, 93–104.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This is part three of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As an education technology writer, I’m often chastised for considering student loan companies as part of my analysis. So that’s also a business opportunity , of course.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. Remember AllLearn?

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Now the course is offered each semester and a whopping 3,000 students take it in any given school year. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo. The class then had 50 students.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. I want to start this year’s review of education technology acknowledging grief. Mourn and Organize. So many losses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 2003, when Parag Pathak was a graduate student at Harvard, he helped design the computer algorithm that matches some 80,000 eighth-graders to more than 400 high schools across New York City each year. Economists who built the algorithm are skeptical that school choice is improving school quality. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. Dr. Ronald Williamson teaches courses in the principalship, school law, ethics and politics of education. We’ve added one more: creating a personalized environment. Needs of Students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

But losing a different kind of “pencil” that technology companies are aiming to push into schools may likely cause a bigger heartache and headache for the purchasing department. Of course, Apple is not the only supplier offering a stylus. Losing a pencil in the classroom may be annoying—but at least they’re cheap to replace.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

During the spring of 2020,” shared Tom Walker, Director of Technology for Massac Unit School District #1 in Illinois, “our focus was, because of all the inequity, making sure first and foremost that our students were fed.” Use Alma for course registration. Grow educators’ level of courage to bridge the technology gap.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nearly 40 percent of students starting at 4-year public institutions took at least one developmental (or college-level readiness) course while enrolled from 2003 to 2009. Bourdukofsky claims some students have returned to their schools to demand the course.). Colleges have taken different approaches to the issue.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

They may also opt for online courses or self-guided learning modules where they can pace their learning according to their personal preference. The post The 7 Styles of Learning Explained with Examples appeared first on Educators Technology. They find that solitude helps them focus and understand subjects more deeply.

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