Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Last week, I got an email from new efriend, Dr. Robert Cleary, an adjunct instructor for various business courses at several universities. The tool provides clear guidelines in each of their many storyline templates, and the Explainer Engine technology automatically suggests images for the most important text, which are called keywords.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

With efforts like Rhode Island School of Design’s championing of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, the arts remain at the forefront of dialogue about best practices in elementary education). Professor and Program Director of Teaching, School of Education, American Public University. Why Arts-based Teaching?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. Of course we’re supposed to move on, but then you still got people who are not over those historical wounds”: Cultural memory and US youth’s race talk. Everett, S., & Carey, C.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. How does higher education use mobile technology to teach? This is part 4.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 12, 2017

Courses frequently touch on starting businesses both within and outside the classroom. Most entrepreneurship students expect to learn how to become their own bosses during the course of their studies. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg completely changed the way people interact with friends and family by launching Facebook in 2004.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap. Every student has a unique and “jagged” learning profile. Science, 331, 1447–1451. Sheldon, K.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. This is part 2. Read part 1 here. This set the stage for the 21st century and podcasting.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2022

You want to do this cost-effectively without too much fuss over content development, and deliver the course from your existing Learning Management System in an efficient, easy manner. You’d like to buy some of your courses from off-the-shelf content providers, but you may like to create custom courses in-house for certain topics.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It deftly, artfully captures just how inundated children — specifically, three girls over the course of one year — are these days, thanks to social media and all the other byproducts of carrying a small computer in your pocket everywhere you go. It would also, of course, improve their lives. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. It is only one of the companies in our broad and diverse portfolio of media, communications and technology assets.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Founded in 2004 and formerly called College Plus, Lumerit offers degree planning services to match people with online courses that offer credits to graduate or transfer to a college. The company claims expertise in the course offerings and credit and transfer policies at hundreds of higher-ed institutions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. Because schools stitch their majors and requirements together in proprietary, sometimes idiosyncratic ways, Econ 101 at one institution may in fact be quite different from the same course taught at another institution.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

Yet it wasn’t until RTI was funded through the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act in 2004 that more districts seriously began to consider adopting the framework. A key challenge facing RTI implementation is there is no guide or handbook. Jason continues to work 15 hours a week.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

But in 2004 Grand Canyon University found itself facing closure—with$20 million in debt—and with less than 1,000 students, and switched to become a for-profit institution. The move is the latest step in Grand Canyon University’s slow path towards reverting to a nonprofit institution. It will also split revenue with the university.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2020

When once distance learning courses were frowned upon and considered to be inferior to traditional campus based degrees, in recent years this opinion has been completely overturned. I earned my first degree in psychology largely by studying at a distance - at the British Open University. Many others have achieved similar awards at a distance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

He’s been involved with cutting-edge educational technology, including virtual worlds, mobile applications, new media, and the web, for more than 15 years. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We We needed a platform that would help us to facilitate at-scale courses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Final Course Requirements Seemingly innocuous degree requirements can keep students from crossing the college finish line. These can be specific math courses or even swim tests. Of those students, 80 were missing only the computer-literacy course that the institution required for graduation. It’s the Christmas of higher ed.

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

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.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Most significantly for those who are immersed in schools, colleges and universities - mobile technology is disrupting education. Secondly, mobile technology is disruptive because it encourages creativity. Potentially, with new AR and wearable technologies emerging, we will be able to make a record our every minute of our lives.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

Hathaway founded the program in 2004 to help a few of his students who wanted extra support in math and science. Striking a Balance That summer learning program with the waitlist? It’s called Teachers in the Park , and it’s led by fourth-grade teacher Matt Hathaway in Reading, Pennsylvania. The model is delightfully simple. It’s brutal.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

The critiques prompted the federal government to change course in 2004, as part of reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives to looking at the gap between intelligence and achievement scores when determining if a child has a learning disability.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Education technology is riddled with acronyms, and here’s another one to boot: iPASS. It stands for “integrated planning and advising student success” which in practice looks like new approaches to academic advising and degree planning services with the help of new technologies.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. This essentialist, instructivist, pedagogical teaching model is still the most predominant model in current Kindergarten through College public education, even in these modern times of unbiquitous information and technology. Education 1.0:

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Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Rapid advancements in, and greater affordability of, VR technology, however, has opened the door for its use in informatics and neuroscience toward developing a more objective, precise, and ecologically valid neuropsychological assessment based on VR technology. During the course of the study, Rizzo et al.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. So, I took my own advice and followed through with that and returned to the University of Michigan where I'd been on the faculty from 1989 to 2004. Learn more here.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 16, 2020

After serving as principal at the middle school and high school levels, Dr. Morrison was selected as Maryland Principal of the Year in 2004. Under his leadership, all school districts saw rapid gains in state test scores, graduation rates, and participation and performance in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

These students, admitted based on the strength of their applications to the public, tuition-free academy, will get an individualized course load based on their interests, as well as the chance to participate in active research alongside doctoral students and scientists at the institute.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Their career-related studies will be complemented by a minimum of two IB Diploma Programme courses, as well a CP core that includes an approaches to learning course, community and service, language development and a reflective project. Hot Springs High School is the only high school in the Hot Springs school district.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Dougherty is, of course, the perfect narrator for the maker movement in no small part because he got it rolling. For years, he served as the business partner and editor for Tim O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Media, which itself has become an intellectual (and publishing) nexus for the technology community. (A

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

On the first day of the chemistry course the teacher provided a routine overview of the syllabus. When students first join the online portion of my Introduction to Business class, they are presented with an introductory video for the course that is meant to mimic the feel of watching an Indiana Jones movie.

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Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 4, 2016

(Thank you, Erica Zimmer (@NerdyMaestra) and Craig Lyndes for your help with this session) Preparing for this session, gave me a chance to reflect back over the past 20 years - starting with the year 1996 - the year technology tools allowed us to personalize learning like never before.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A Tale of Two Keynotes We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. Wheeler, 2000a).

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