EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2018

The PROGNOSIS project focused on how to find early prognostic indices of Parkinson’s disease from the everyday use of smartphones and smartwatches. In 2016, my four-student team, AMANDA , used Azure to archive, analyze and model behavioral data from the interaction of youngsters to form a virtual empathy museum.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). According to another study of teenagers and their smartphone usage conducted by Common Sense Media and the University of Michigan’s C.S. The lack of focus on writing in education is baffling, given the positive impacts of writing on learning. Shanahan, T.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Neil Jarrett (@edtechneil) November 17, 2016. 12) Google Cardboard , paired with a smartphone and viewer brings virtual reality to your classroom. If I had to pick my favourite app of 2016, it would be this one! Amazing results and it really got them thinking about the words they selected ☟☟☟ pic.twitter.com/guTyCvigK9.

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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. In 2016, I believe we will see more learners creating, making, programming, coding, producing, innovating, inventing, designing, problem solving and publishing. The most common device among students is the smartphone.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

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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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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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 18, 2016

Posted on January 18, 2016 , by Hilary Smith. While parents are rejoicing that kids are back in school, and they survived winter break, teachers and administrators might be noticing more students with smartphones. Preparing Students For Smartphone Ownership. Preparing A Classroom For A Smartphone Invasion.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

2016 brought us Pokemon Go, the addictive game that saw players running around their neighborhoods hunting virtual creatures projected onto the physical landscape through their smartphones. Just as smartphones have become indispensable to us, extended reality and the Internet of Things were set to become our daily norm.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Or this: when two people argue over what is the capital city of Brazil, do you think they pause their conversation until they get home to their desktop PCs and look up that piece of information, or they just pull out their smartphones and end the discussion then and there? The answer is Brasilia, FYI).

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 According to techcrunch.com , the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 According to techcrunch.com , the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3

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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. 6, 2021, chief among them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

3 – Rio 2016 Olympics. The Rio 2016 Olympics kick off on August 5, 2016. I’ve learned so much from her about how to take great pictures with my iPhone, but the tips apply to any smartphone with a good digital camera. The Centers for Disease Control has a variety of lesson plans on health and wellness.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Even as these cloud- and app-based tools provide powerful technology for free on smartphones and other personal devices, the expensive graphing calculator (which typically costs between US$80 and $150) continues to be a stalwart in K-12 math classes , with year-over-year units sales increasing in 2015 and 2016.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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. This is good news for the 1.9

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Through computers, smartphones, and tablets, we have a wealth of information at our fingertips that can be both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. If two caretakers in the home have their own smartphone and there’s a TV in the living room, that’s three screens already. Journal of Adolescent Health, April 2016, 58(4), pp.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Imakiku enables real-time voting, posting, and survey capabilities through the use of smartphones, tablets, or laptops. For readers of A Principal's Reflections the trial is free until 3/31/2016 by using a special code. It is specifically optimized for these mobile devices. You can access a free trial until 12/31/2015 for general use.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Photo credit: Monica French, 2016) At the height of quarantine, I found myself flashing back to Ms. They’re still building structures and knocking them down, but they’re also using blocks as medicines to take care of their friends; as guns to explore the complexities of power; and as smartphones to share their thoughts, ideas and feelings.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The 2016 academic year in Japan saw more than 320,000 such cases—more than any year on record for the country, according to The Japan Times. Qooco , a smartphone app, aims to help users develop fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese. Proceeds from the sale of tomato juice goes towards supporting education-related charities.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Mountain View, CA, September 7, 2016 – Many K-12 schools and districts have challenges in controlling what devices connect to their WiFi networks because of the limitations of current WiFi authentication techniques. Enforce and the integration into Google for Education will be available in Q4 2016, with other integrations coming in 2017.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

3 – Rio 2016 Olympics. The Rio 2016 Olympics kick off on August 5, 2016. I’ve learned so much from her about how to take great pictures with my iPhone, but the tips apply to any smartphone with a good digital camera. The Centers for Disease Control has a variety of lesson plans on health and wellness.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

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. According to one survey, 94% of teachers used video the previous academic year. If not yet, it will be soon.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The Babson Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks online enrollment, notes that between 2012 and 2016 the percent of online enrollment in universities increased 17.2 The last academic leader perception survey released by the Babson Research Group was in 2016. percent while overall enrollment decreased.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2017

Sphero is robotic ball that connects to your smartphone or tablets over Bluetooth. Using free apps and a compatible tablet or smartphone, kids learn to code while they make these robots sing, dance and navigate all around the house. https://colleengraves.org/2016/04/28/makey-makey-hacked-poetry-month/. Sphero and Ollie.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Alex Blumberg, the co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Media, a podcast network, shared about that kind of intimacy during a 2016 Podcast Movement talk: The Second Golden Age of Audio. While you can listen to episodes via a web browser, most people listen using a dedicated podcast app on their smartphone.

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Securly

APRIL 19, 2016

On average, students spend about 5-10 hours per day on their device(s) (smartphone, iPad, laptop, etc). Common Sense Media outlines the top social media websites/apps of 2016 and what to be aware of for online safety purposes. So are we. We surveyed 400+ students to find out just how kids ages 9-18 are using their display devices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

More than 10,000 of the students had answered questions on their technology use in the spring of fifth grade in 2016. Morgan suspects that parents of hyperactive or aggressive children are unintentionally reinforcing the habit of using a smartphone or a tablet. It’s not clear that frequent technology use is harmful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

While this isn’t true of many dedicated reading devices (like a Kindle), it is true of all reading apps adapted to Chromebooks, tablets, and smartphones. Note: One 2016 study showed that 92% of students prefer print to digital.). Digital books often require their own proprietary program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

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. A third of U.S.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2019

The use of digital textbooks in classrooms is growing in the face of the easy availability of smartphones and the Internet. A four-year university-wide study conducted by Florida Virtual Campus reports that 70% of the respondents surveyed said that they had spent at least $300 on textbooks in the year 2016.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The company’s launch in 2011 coincided with the start of a period that saw smartphone adoption among U.S. It was not until summer 2016—five years after it launched—that Remind tried rolling out paid features. adults steadily grow from 35 percent in 2011 to 77 percent in 2018, according to the Pew Research Center.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 1, 2016

This post originally appeared on my Discovery Education blog, Kathy's Kathy, in April of 2016. First, you need a smartphone. The smartphone is housed in the viewer and the viewer includes two lenses that focus on the smartphone screen. You then place the smartphone in the Google Cardboard viewer. Check it out !

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Deloitte‘s inaugural 2016 Digital Education Survey surveyed teachers, students and parents to uncover how technology is changing the concept of the classroom. Smartphones (28 percent). The top five devices used at least weekly in the classroom are: Laptops (56 percent). Desktops (54 percent). Tablets (51 percent).

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 18, 2016

While you have to be a partner school to try it out, you can use the same features in your classroom with Google Cardboard , a smartphone, and cardboard compatible apps. The Call for Proposals and Super Early Bird Registration are OPEN for the November 2-4, 2016 EdTechTeacher Innovation Summit in Boston!

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2016

Worldwide tablet shipments are expected to decline for the second straight year in 2016, dropping 9.6 The tablet market in totality has seen its peak and will face down years in 2016 and 2017, followed by a slight rebound in 2018 and beyond driven by detachable tablet growth.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

The study was released at ISTE 2016 in late June. Some students stitched photos together on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone and loaded the smartphone into the Samsung Gear Virtual Reality headset. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. “We decided we’d experiment with content creation,” Lloyd said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2016

At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Lenovo announced the development of the first consumer mobile device with Project Tango in collaboration with Google. Project Tango technology gives a mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world similar to how we do as humans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets, the gap has virtually vanished. In their latest October 2016 revision , the pediatricians advised that children under 18 months should avoid screens, except for video chatting. Even high-speed internet access is becoming more commonplace.

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