Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. I was keen to find out his take: Would technology ever replace the teacher? His answer to me was immediate and unequivocal. “No,” No,” he said.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

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. How Digital Natives Process Information in the Classroom. Prensky wrote that digital natives are used to receiving information quickly, and they are used to multitasking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Zeitz, 2008. Better attitude toward writing—less frustration looking for keys; more satisfying entering information. Prepare students for a technological society. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Here–briefly–is a summation of the research: 1 Why Learn Keyboarding.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. It can be used to generate responses to user input, initiate conversations, and provide information and assistance to users in a chatbot setting. Wikipedia is one of those examples.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2024

Superior Inhibitory Control in Auditory Comprehension : Bilinguals demonstrate a greater ability to suppress irrelevant information during auditory comprehension, indicating enhanced cognitive control (Blumenfeld & Marian, 2011). It tracks participants first tested in 1947 and retested in 2008–2010. Blumenfeld, H.K., Hernández, M.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Fremont, CA – AVer Information Inc. USA, the award-winning provider of video collaboration and education technology solutions today announced the launch of the A30 , the world’s first All-in-One Camera with AI Audio for the Classroom. ” About AVer Information Inc. .” ” About AVer Information Inc.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 6, 2018

I cannot overstate the importance of getting the instructional design right first before throwing technology into the mix. This is not to say that the former is bad or ineffective, but it can be depending on whether or not the technology is just a direct substitute for low-level tasks or use is more passive as opposed to active.

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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. ” 10. link] Guilloteaux, M.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

For the last decade, some of the most common initiatives have been about increasing personalization and using technology. . However, educators need to tread carefully or run the risk of technology making teaching and learning less student-centered instead of more and failing to prepare our students to be successful adults. .

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Numerous studies (Spitzer: 1939, Cepeda et al: 2008,) into human memory have shown that memory retention can be improved by spacing out your exposure to information, so that you review the information again at the optimal moment. For more information on spaced repetition, take a look HERE.

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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?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

AVer Information Inc., the award-winning provider of video collaboration, distance learning and education technology solutions, announced today the launch of the innovative AVerCharge X16 , a 16 device customizable charging and storage solution. “The About AVer Information Inc.

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Waterford

AUGUST 6, 2021

In an article with Understood, educator Alison Posey suggests that teachers inform families about what UDL is and how you’ll be using it in class around back-to-school night.[2] Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and Understood. December 20, 2008. Teach Families About the UDL Framework. Reading Rockets.

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 22, 2014

If technology or even a vital member of the group was missing, the work of the group could be delayed for days or even weeks. While some work could be distributed, the technology still required some central coordination. How has mobile technology affected distributed groups? In addition, it was still time consuming.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

Suddenly, information literacy became real — and urgent. Please note: 1) Information literacy skills are not new. When I dug into them, this information is publicly available although not being widely discussed. He asserts that the Chinese hacked the both the Obama and McCain campaigns in the 2008 election cycle.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 9, 2021

These can be technology-based, but they don’t necessarily have to be. A 2008 study by Stan Frijters, Geert ten Dam, and Gert Rijlaarsdam presented a study on teaching value-loaded critical thinking comprising of 297 students. And while the idea of a channel connotes content (e.g., 6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning.

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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. Here are some basic tips to get you started: Avoid “nice to know” information. Entrepreneurs typically: Adapt and learn in changing environments.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

When combined with the fact that many illiterate working class people would attend informal readings of the supplements in barber-shops, lodging houses as well as a few less salubrious locales, one can barely overstate Dickens’s popularity. In the mid-1800s installments of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers sold on average 35,000 a month.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Cruzan was joined by LaShona Dickerson, technology director for Lafayette Parish School System in Louisiana, to give CoSN attendees tips on how to better plan for E-rate funding and avoid unnecessary audits. Selective Review Information Requests — Cruzan said she calls these pre-commitment reviews. Did you have addendums?

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones. “In

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Teachers prior to the Internet, as we know it today, were one of the primary gatekeepers of information. was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. Other than libraries and news outlets, students were dependent on the educator to provide them with information. Education 1.0

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

FREMONT, CA – June 28, 2021 : AVer Information Inc., the award-winning provider of video collaboration solutions and education technology solutions, announced today the launch of the innovative VB130 All-In-One Distance Learning Collaboration Solution. About AVer Information Inc.:

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

were published in February 2008 by WCAG Samurai, a group of web developers autonomous of W3C.Web 2.0 was published by W3C on 11 December 2008 and consisted of twelve guidelines categorized under four existing principles, namely, perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Some extensions of the existing WCAG 1.0

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2016

The winner announcement was made by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, to an audience of over 300 education, software, information and business technology leaders.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. I’ve updated this list adding two sets of resources. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened an informal inquiry into whether Los Angeles school officials complied with legal guidelines in the use of bond funds for the now-abandoned $1.3-billion Unified clearly designated funds for technology, but did not mention tablets. billion iPads-for-all project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In particular, workers in the service sector and those who have jobs that have been dis-intermediated by technological progress—jobs that skew female and minority—are being hit the hardest. Technology platforms and tools that are affordable, scalable and based on sound efficacy should win the day.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Limit Homework or Make it Optional Imagine applying for a job, and the hiring manager informs you that in addition to a full workday in the office, you’ll be assigned three more hours of work every night. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. Does this sound like a healthy work-life balance?

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2021

provider of the premier unified school-to-home engagement platform for K-12, today announced it has received a significant investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused firm that invests in technology and tech-enabled services companies. Serent has a solid reputation in education and technology,” said ParentSquare CEO Sohit Wadhwa.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 9, 2011

Storage is not one of the most exciting technological parts of a geeky discussion about computers, but there are two solutions that every educator should have. Both of these technological solutions help make using a computer easier and make using cloud applications like Google Docs easier. They will be amazed.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Historical origins of the information age : I think it’s important to ground our understanding of technology by beginning…well, in the beginning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. Now she is working as Director of K-12 Instructional Technology for the 93 schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and really working with their digital citizenship initiative.

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