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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

With the help of technology you can connect with families from the comfort of their homes. Email is also an option accessible to most. Many schools maintain a private Facebook group to communicate with families, keep them up-to-date on events, and build a school community. 2004, November). Journal of School Psychology.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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New Data from Rave Mobile Safety Shows Schools’ Top Safety Concerns About Returning to the Classroom

eSchool News

For that model to be successful, schools need to consider the challenges that emerged from classes held remotely this spring, chief among them being students lacking internet access and low student and parent engagement. Founded in 2004, Rave’s award-winning software solutions are backed by leading growth equity firm TCV. Facebook.

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LIVE: Access All Of Your Files On All Of Your Devices Using @Microsoft_EDU OneNote | @MSOneNote

TeacherCast

OneNote Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/OneNote. OneNote in Education: Transforming Learning Via Technology & eTextbooks. After four years teaching both Kindergarten and 4th grade, Jennifer became an Instructional Technology Specialist for Lamar Consolidated ISD. About OneNote. OneNote in Education Blog : [link].

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

techlearning

Really Simple Syndication for me was the poster child technology for the era where the early internet began to shift from a place where only certain folks with technical skill and software could contribute to the web to a place where user-generated content was now dominant and more importantly, anyone could easily interact with that content.