Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The video’s simplicity and accessibility is the point for ReadyRosie, which offers parents ways to turn a chore like putting away groceries into vocabulary practice. But ReadyRosie’s growth also comes as a result of growing smartphone use among lower-income families. It’s smooth and in the pantry,” the boy says slowly. Peanut butter?

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Social Institute , whose mission is to empower millions of students to navigate their social world — including social media and technology — in positive, healthy, and high-character ways, released its 2024 Student Insights Report: How Social Media, Tech, and Current Events Impact Student Well-Being. Canada, and Puerto Rico.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Today’s youth are digital natives who are unaware of life without Internet access, instant communication, mobile phones and an abundance of on-demand information sitting in their pockets. By: Robyn Shulman, M.Ed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

However, despite being an allegory of our times, a lot has been said off-the-record about misconceptions regarding students’ technological abilities. A 2015 study conducted by the Pew Research Center shows students like Foley and Saeed are not alone. Those are programs I will use in my field, so I need to know it.”

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. According to techcrunch.com , the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012). Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Advocates claim that the calculators provide students access to more powerful mathematics. But even after decades of use, graphing technology of any sort in the classroom still sparks debate. But overall, when the technology is paired with appropriate instructional techniques, the result is more and better mathematics learning.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 14, 2015

Included as a free bonus is an eight-week digital subscription to The New York Times, opening up access to the main website and available smartphone apps. This offer ends on February 13, 2015. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As more of our lives are consumed with digital technology — social media, texting and smartphones — is it any wonder that our children are growing up with electronic gadgets as companions? And, ownership of smartphones — mobile devices with an internet connection — has tripled in recent years among young people.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Advances in web-based technologies now offer teachers the ability to answer these questions in a more holistic manner. Imakiku enables real-time voting, posting, and survey capabilities through the use of smartphones, tablets, or laptops. You can access a free trial until 12/31/2015 for general use.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For the past decade, schools have invested millions of dollars in technology. But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Why digital?

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

Audiobooks, social media and smartphone newsfeeds are what Americans are doing. On smartphones. It’s considered by pundits that the shift in access via smartphones has caused a mutation in content consumption away from only books and long-form reading. The Smartphone Take-over. consumers have a smartphone.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Bringing technology into the classroom can feel like an uphill battle. In addition to helping teachers modify curricula for different learning styles, classroom technology also primes students for research and collaboration in higher education and beyond. All are supported on smartphones , tablets and Chromebooks.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This nationally representative study on how kids age 8 to 18 use media highlights what kinds of access kids have to technology, what they're doing on those devices and how often, and how much they enjoy the various types of media activities they're engaged in. Your students still don't have equal access to technology.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 10, 2015

New Pew research covers teens’ 2015 use of social media and technology. teens now has a smartphone, with predictable increase and shifts in mobile-accelerated social networking. The survey also reveals income-correlated disparities in access to technology, and different habits by gender.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

“Technology invites us to move from engaged to empowered.” — From George Couros’ Innovator’s Mindset. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers. Capstone Interactive.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Pearson/Harris Poll reveals new findings on mobile device ownership and how wi-fi access impacts learning in school. Just 68 percent of grades 4-12 students in a recent survey said they have wi-fi access at school, though 96 percent of those same students have wi-fi access at home. With increased ownership comes increased use.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 10, 2018

Furthering the frontier of technology in education is Virtual Reality, a computer-generated simulation of a 3D environment that can be interacted with in a physical way by a person using special electronic equipment , ordinarily goggles. For more information, visit: www.oculus.com/. The Vive has a refresh rate of 90 Hz. Samsung Gear VR.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015. Most high schoolers have a way to send an email from home, whether it’s from a smartphone or a family computer. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

That question led him and his wife to launch Tinkergarten in 2015, which offers a play-based, outdoor-learning curriculum that anyone can learn and use to host classes in their local communities. We want to take the best of experiential learning and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

But rather than adapting their business models to the new truth of their product, publishers have invested significantly in technologies that attempt to make educational materials artificially scarce. These technologies cripple the Internet’s inherent ability to support the instantaneous and free copying and redistribution of content.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Previously a consultant and policy adviser to Michael Gove, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of Education, Martin first explored growth opportunities for international education companies in Africa in 2015, after leaving his gig at Boston Consulting Group. Their capabilities are often described as a halfway between basic and smartphones.)

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The main concern while publishing content is the quality of the final output which will be accessed by students. Once published, the etextbooks should be easily accessible by the users. DRM protection ensures that only people with permissions can access the content. Here’s our list of the 8 best eBook creation software.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2023

sometimes still in uniform, and pull into a massive parking lot shared by the local community college and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, or TCAT. TCAT Nashville offers 16-month to two-year courses including diesel and automotive technology and welding and construction technology, among others.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Our school recognizes that tangible, hands-on learning experiences featuring self-discovery and critical thinking is the key to effective instruction A New Kind of Business Plan In the spring of 2015, my school looked into a new type of class to address a term that every school features prominently on their website: “21st-century education.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An increasing number of people now prefer to access and read books on digital devices such as eReaders, computers, smartphones, and tablets. This will depend on factors like the platform, the device on which the ebook is being accessed and viewed, and the individual settings chosen by the reader. Fixed-layout Formats.

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Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 20, 2015

I began 2015 with a few weeks off the grid in Vietnam and Cambodia. Nonetheless, I couldn’t help but pay attention to the rapid encroachment of technology, and compare digital behaviors to those back in the U.S. Internet at home remains costly — white collar professionals gain access through their offices, and rely on mobile.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The implementation of the flipped classroom suggests this model (Abeysekera & Dawson, 2015): To make this work in practice, you have to guide your students towards valid resources that will allow them to grasp the necessary information in advance of an upcoming lesson. Make the lesson attractive, accessible and relevant to your students.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The implementation of the flipped classroom suggests this model (Abeysekera & Dawson, 2015): Use this context to advance learner soft skills. Make the lesson attractive, accessible and relevant to your learners. What makes the flipped classroom an attainable educational strategy is our access to technology.

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edWeb.net

MAY 14, 2020

In the Montour School District, they are designing a positive future for Montour schools aligning every action and decision to their three core values: curricula, educational technology, professional development. Adopt and Adapt.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

SchoolMint’s technology is used by districts like Camden City School District to build “school chooser” websites where parents can fill in their address, select desired extracurricular activities and services and see a result of available schools that fit the criteria. That company has purchased eight education companies since June 2015.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 20, 2015

But I could not have done this if a) I had not had access to the technology, b) I never had used the technology, and c) the people in front of me didn’t have access to technology themselves. The things that we (and our students) have access to, create opportunities and can help shape our thinking.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 10, 2015

This week Pew Research Center released Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015 , a report that should have relevance to all of us who work with young people. Pew research social media technology teens' Here’s a summary of key findings: Where do they hang? The wealthiest teens are most likely to use Twitter.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

In fact, from 2011 to 2015, government business intelligence company Onvia awarded $1,809,298 in 3D printer and supply contracts to 44 primary, secondary and higher education institutions and school districts across the United States.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a statewide public school district in the state of Florida and international provider of education products and services, has selected D2L , a global learning technology provider, to deploy its Brightspace platform as the district’s new learning management system (LMS).

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2014

On March 2nd, 2015, they are lifting their cell phone ban and empowering schools to make instructional decisions regarding the use of personal devices for learning. Individual schools can decide whether they want to incorporate students’ personal technology into classroom learning and can implement a "bring your own device" (BYOD) program.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They had four top areas which they wanted to know more about: recommendations about apps to use at home to support learning, types of technology or workplace skills their child is learning, what type of technology they should have at home to support learning, and how to work with teachers to improve learning opportunities.

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