EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

American poet and etymologist John Ciardi once remarked, “The classroom should be an entrance into the world.” Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Instead, it should use simple rules to guide it.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. The infusion of innovative learning systems and computerization into educational settings promises to create significant change in the near future. These changes will impact both the way students learn and the appearance of traditional classroom settings.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2016

“Alexa, play Every Classroom Matters podcast.” I spent last Saturday setting up a smart lightbulb system for my parents. With some time, you can set up a very smart system for aging parents or family members. My books: Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time and.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

A static classroom environment traditionally found in NYC public schools. . Yet, every day, over three million educators in this country are forced to make do with the factory-model classrooms of the early 20th century. Learning is individualized, and we build systems to support student initiative, interest and needs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This story is Part 2 of our 3-part series on Lessons Learned in 2016. As these four principals look back at 2016, they recall the most important ed tech lesson they learned this year—and look forward to inspiring their staff and students anew in 2017. Check back tomorrow for Lessons Learned by Educators.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, we must continually push systems so that all students are able to be successful in spaces where they have ownership and feel a sense of belonging (identity). Good teachers are finding ways to meet the learning needs of all of these diverse brains within the same classroom. Opening doors to all students is an obvious move.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools. Let’s discuss some of the tools and techniques math teachers can use in the classroom today.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research says that when students are engaged in service-learning, their immune system, heart rate and sense of well-being improves dramatically. Children are happiest when they feel a sense of purpose.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Three key elements then used for proceeding with equity work are systems leadership, strategic planning, and an equity framework. An equity framework, inventory, and handbook have been created to streamline and provide supports for culturally responsive systems change.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

When we think about having a diverse classroom we think of ethnicity, race, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. This paper explores the impact socioeconomic status has on student learning in order for teachers to have a better understanding of their diverse classroom. Low-SES students preferred the active voice.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Similarly, KQED’s Do Now and StudySync’s Blasts present current events and issues for students to encourage them to connect what they are learning in school to their lives beyond the classroom. Some online learning uses a badging system to create a rewards system for participation. Elliman, J., doi: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590377.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

2016 is now well underway, but few could say how it will end or what major changes we’ll see as the year unfurls. Technology and the classroom – major trends and challenges. In 2016, I believe the world of edtech will explore new ways to create active learning environments that inspire engagement and innovative thinking.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with gauging a student’s learning style and pre-existing knowledge, AI systems can meticulously design courses catering to the specific needs of the students. To keep pace with the upcoming time, the education system needs to reinvent itself by integrating AI across subjects. Let’s look at what it will offer. ?

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

Many of the 16,000 attendees expected to flock to ISTE 2016 come looking for ideas on how to make smart use of technology in their classrooms and schools, and for a preview of tech trends on the horizon. The list of sessions on tap for ISTE 2016 –there are roughly 1,000 of them–offers some clues on that front.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Deb Ramm helps us learn the techniques to help powerful improvement happen in classrooms. IT Coaches Leading Change in the Classroom. Now, Deb, you work with implementing lighthouse classrooms, but you’ve also recently moved into instructional technology. Vicki: But how do you keep your classroom focused? Listen Now.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2021

Osmo for Schools , the educational division of Tangible Play that promotes in-classroom usage of Osmo’s award-winning educational systems, celebrates its fifth anniversary March 30, 2021 and highlights recent achievements. All Learning System Bundles Upgraded To Plastic Manipulatives for Effective Sanitization.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. It’s intensified the long-standing desire to deliver a truly inclusive education system. January’s update was published alongside guidance concerning the use of technology for helping students with disabilities.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It is integrated classroom tools for students and teachers and powerful transparency for families and school leaders. It combines the best features of a learning management system, assessment management and data management into one. Has a great gradebook supporting traditional points-based classrooms and standards based grading.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Schools and edtech vendors take (some) steps to secure their systems and limit student access to the more powerful administrative features of school technology devices and systems, but time and again and again students demonstrate their ability to circumvent these controls. My hope.is student ingenuity with and interest in computers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. Google Google Classroom. Updates and Upgrades: The first of the “Classrooms,” Google Classroom launched in August 2014.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

How I Use Notion in the Classroom. If you want to replace a system like Evernote, then start with how to turn Notion into a notetaking system. Chris is passionate about leading empowerment organizations, designing innovative instructional systems, and accomplishing both in the context of meaningful, team-oriented relationships.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In 2016, 23 million people registered for a course for the first time ever, according to data collected by. In 2016, 2,600 new courses were announced (up from 1,800 last year), taking the total number of MOOCs to 6,850 from over 700 universities. Unlike previous years, no major venture funding rounds went to MOOC companies in 2016.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Here's who will be pitching: Boulder Learning : Developing learning systems with virtual tutors. The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. Listen Current: Current events podcasts developed for the classroom. Here are the details.)

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 30, 2016

Classtag is a robust communication system that is connecting the classroom to the dinner table by bringing parents into the education conversation. Classtag is a robust communication system that is connecting the classroom to the dinner table by bringing parents into the education conversation.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

More than just a fad technology that was used for capturing Pokemon in 2016, augmented reality (or AR) is creating incredible possibilities across numerous industries – not least in education. It’s offering some of the most exciting classroom innovations of recent times and already fundamentally improving lessons across the world.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Langford: We deployed our first round of Chromebooks to students in 2016. Through bond money, we purchased devices and changed the classroom environment. We also added a learning management system and other applications. In 2016, we formed a digital-equity team made up of teachers and administrators districtwide.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 21, 2021

They need to examine the social, legal, and economic factors that have supported systemic racism. First, to address educational inequity in Kansas City, Dr. Bedell said he and the district leaders, including the board, needed to understand how historical policies and practices impact the classroom. But more important, said Dr. Mark T.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh. And if we use the Creative Commons license system, we can basically pull all of this global knowledge from our wonderful teachers and our students and collect – we don’t have to collect other people’s questions; we can write our own questions. Transcript for Episode 114 .

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

Thanks to the teamwork of our teachers and staff, we are building not just our students’ confidence in the classroom, but ensuring a strong foundation for success.” First-grade students’ scores jumped from 52 percent in the 2016–2017 school year to 98 percent in the 2022–2023 school year—a 46 percent increase.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2019

favorite thing is that you can work at your own pace, create things for use in your classroom today, and you can have six months to complete the courses. Brad is a co-founder of BehaviorFlip, a restorative behavior management system that helps build empathy and responsibility in students. Brad holds a B.A.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2018

What started as an idea with my four students at the Microsoft Imagine Cup, was exponentially enlarged in 2016 as a large-scale research project, Intelligent Parkinson’s eaRly detectiOn Guiding NOvel Supportive InterventionS , or i-PROGNOSIS. Azure App Fights Classroom Bullying. Students’ Dream Project Becomes Real. Content Subtype.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. Accordingly, Standards 3c, 3d, and 6b aren’t really in my day-to-day domain.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., That idea required changing an existing system. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students. How will we train the teachers to use the new technology? How will we fund this initiative?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., That idea required changing an existing system. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students. How will we train the teachers to use the new technology? How will we fund this initiative?

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., That idea required changing an existing system. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students. How will we train the teachers to use the new technology? How will we fund this initiative?

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., That idea required changing an existing system. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students. How will we train the teachers to use the new technology? How will we fund this initiative?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. Source: IES , February 2024. Some innovations did work well.

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