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Technology I use on a Daily Basis - 2016 Version

Educational Technology Guy

Here's my updated version for Spring, 2016. If I am traveling, I only bring my smartphone and my Acer Flip Chromebook and am able to do everything I need to with them. My personal smartphone is an LG G4 running Android. My work smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy 7 which I use when traveling. I love it. Great device.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

If you were to go back in time and pinpoint when disruption began to take off, I would wager that it correlates with the proliferation of the smartphone. Had it not been for the smartphone their innovative apps might never have come to fruition or experienced immense scalability as they have. respectively by 2020.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. Tablets are the number one choice for classroom learning, as they are somewhere in the middle ground between the reliability of laptops and the mobility of smartphones.

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How Self-Service Technologies Help College Students Find Jobs

EdNews Daily

million students who graduated this past spring Also good news is the fact that employers are estimated to hire about 5 percent more graduates from the class of 2016 than 2015. For example, as campuses try to meet students’ needs in a more efficient manner, self-service options for students will become even more popular.

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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

Educators are striving to transform learning environments to meet changing needs. In the 2016 Speak Up survey, 68% of teachers said they used online videos in 2015 – compared to 48% in 2010. Among children age 8 or younger, 21% use smartphones. Around three-quarters of teens own smartphones. Online Video.

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Urgent: Today’s students need a digitally fluent school website

eSchool News

We track our health with wearable wristbands, our smartphones are basically pocket-sized laptops capable of doing and finding what we need within seconds, and the majority of our communication channels have turned digital. For instance, in a 2016 Unit4 study, students gave their opinion on schools’ use of technology.

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Teachers say virtual reality would boost engagement

eSchool News

The study was released at ISTE 2016 in late June. Ben Lloyd, a technology teacher at Beaverton School District in Oregon, uses virtual reality with his eighth-grade students and said the technology played an important part in developing things to help students meet their learning targets. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S.