Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Classroom Motivation Strategies Drawing upon the insightful work of Guilloteaux & Dörnyei (2008), specifically from pages 63-64, this section delves into a variety of motivational strategies, enriched with my own examples and explanations to illustrate their practical application in educational settings. link] Guilloteaux, M.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

Today Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. In today’s show, Liz Kolb talks about the role of learning and technology: What is the role of technology in learning. When technology is a distraction. Book: Learning First, Technology Second.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. An example? Open Curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

As the halfway point approaches, there have already been 69 shootings this school year, up from 18 in all of 2008. In response, districts nationwide are investing in human and technological resources to improve security for students, teachers, and parents. There are many reasons for this.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. And the prices could also pose a burden for students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2008, through some fabulous colleagues, I discovered TED Talks, which led me to leadership guru Simon Sinek. In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Do you struggle with effectively integrating technology into learning? Do you wonder how your pedagogy must change to respond to the technology choices you and your students make? From Shaelynn - In 2008, the district I worked in adopted a 1:1 Laptop Initiative. Influential educators Shaelynn Farnsworth and Steven W.

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2017

TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. The core idea behind it is that a great teacher must perfectly know (Knowledge) the subject being taught (Content), how to deliver it so that a student learns it (Pedagogy) and also how to choose and use the right technology in doing so (Technology).

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Make imaginative use of technology. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Entrepreneurs typically: Adapt and learn in changing environments. Recognize, create and act on opportunities. Understand how to start and run an organization.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Technology advancements promised to make a great impact to initiate change in the classroom, but now we are faced with a newer set of obstacles. Yet, in a majority of areas, the infrastructure doesn’t cooperate.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. Increase the flexibility of instruction, learning and assessment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Technology advancements promised to make a great impact to initiate change in the classroom, but now we are faced with a newer set of obstacles. Assess students on how well they met all the steps towards their goal.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

What really drew me to Edmodo was the opportunity to use technology to provide a much better learning experience for everyone,” says Kim in an interview with EdSurge. To keep pace, Edmodo has started—and shuttered —various features over the years that aimed to generate revenue, such as an assessment tool. “In Are we an LMS?

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. And that's surveillance.

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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. In 2008, iParadigms was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). Use this information to assess your selection and application of course material toward learning goals. By Andrew Lang.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition. Under his watch, Instructure purchased two companies: a digital portfolio tool for $43 million and a K-12 assessment platform for $42.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. What do teachers want?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2016

Consider this from the 2008 Leadership and Learning Center : In schools where writing and note-taking were rarely implemented in science classes, approximately 25 percent of students scored proficient or higher on state assessments. Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Want to hear another episode on technology tools? Jon was the co-designer of Minarets High School , which originated as a GAFE, 1:1 Macbook and PBL based high school in 2008 and has been named an Apple Distinguished School three times. And this is the beauty of technology. Making it easier to teach vocabulary.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. But she acknowledges that technology has accelerated the pace of change and practice. None of this, Fuhrman notes, is new.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 3, 2019

Technology infusion: The shift from local classrooms that are largely based on pens and pencils, notebook paper, ring binders, and printed textbooks to globally connected learning spaces that are deeply and richly technology driven. Assessment often drives the teaching, not the other way around. Or, as Lauren B.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Every state has its own annual assessments but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored. Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. Technology offers itself as the solution. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis. I'm an ed-tech critic. billion.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Putting education equity front and center: Beyond technology access, the pandemic school year highlighted the need for all students to receive the support they need to reach their learning potential. Dr. Evans is the longest-serving woman executive in the education technology nonprofit sector. She lives in Maryland. Dr. Daniel A.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. Have them present their work in written and oral forms, but let them choose the educational technology tools most appropriate for their tasks. London: Unbound. Gibson, K. Rimmington, G.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). Are any education technologies, for that matter? The company has raised some $77.5 The company has raised some $77.5 One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. What is a “Platform”?

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

EVERFI’s health literacy course uses Bloom’s taxonomy framework of hierarchical learning and assessment and is aligned with National Health Education Standards (NHES) , Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) and Jump$tart Coalition’s National Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education. About EVERFI, Inc.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

And, of course, the educational technology community has now begun to focus on this. I hope to rectify this in the near future, but since 2008, reading acquisition has become something on the forefront of my mind. She scores much lower on online exams than in person assessments. I began reading Ed.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2021

Many waived child assessments. During the last recession, around 2008-9, many states relaxed or adjusted their preschool requirements in order to survive, but never reversed those changes. How Long Will Policy Changes Last? Some adapted their protocol on health screenings and referrals. A perfect example, Weisenfeld says, is Georgia.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

There are also bootcamps, internship marketplaces, career placement technology companies, employment assessment companies, and dozens of other category-creating models aimed at paving the last mile between college and employment or otherwise providing retraining for those looking to change careers. And this is just online.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Pandemic school closures and remote instruction made learning to read much harder, especially for young, low-income students who didn’t have adequate technology at home or an adult who could assist them during the day. Teachers across the country are seeing more and more students struggle with reading this school year. In 2016, U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

This conversation is so much fun and will give PE teachers and coaches lots of ideas for using technology to improve sports performance and get fit. I travel the world helping #physed teachers use technology more meaningfully in their classes. geek is helping us learn five simple ways to improve physical education with technology.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

Preparing students for success: Additional research says students need technological, SEL, higher cognitive, basic cognitive, and manual and physical skills to succeed in the workforce. Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. Three Essential Recommendations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

But even he realized that we can’t expect individual faculty to stay at the cutting edges of their discipline, teaching and learning practice, educational research, and the ever-changing technologies that can be used in the service of learning. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess.

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