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Beyond Screen Time: Better Questions for Children and Technology in 2020

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2009, the iPhone was two years old, and we were beginning to explore the possibilities of the touch screen and video chat as engaging interfaces for young children. Relationships matter most. It doesn’t have to be either/or.

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Campuswire Raises $3.6 Million to Improve Online Class Discussions

Edsurge

And yet, Tade Oyerinde took the plunge in 2014, leaving the University of Leeds in England to dedicate his time to developing a tool to improve digital communications in the classroom. “My The Campuswire platform comes as a desktop, iPhone or Android app that offers a forum for students’ questions.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2009 – In Bangkok, I helped to train, facilitate and oversee Virtual School due to flooding and H1N1 in Bangkok we used WordPress blogs as teacher websites.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. Skype took off and more and more teachers are using it in the classroom. I want to be hip. How did I do?

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

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High failure rates spur universities to overhaul math class

The Hechinger Report

There’s going to be a need for a million more STEM graduates in the next decade than we’re currently producing,” said Chris Rasmussen, professor of mathematics education at San Diego State. “I In teaching assistant Natalie Nowicki’s math class at San Diego State, for example, step one is to reconfigure the classroom.