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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

Edsurge

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students.

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Can Creativity Be Taught?

Digital Promise

In fact, 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t even been invented yet, says a report by the Institute for the Future and a panel of 20 tech, business, and academic experts from around the world. She says that the tablets are like portals through which students can access a universe of ideas.

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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

eSchool News

The program is now expanding to include a new model for schools that already have 1:1 device programs, with Verizon providing hotspots equipped with a 30GB 4G LTE monthly data plan for students who have a school-issued tablet or laptop but lack reliable home internet access. Learn more at CitizenVerizon.com.

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Survey Says: Parents Think Tech Companies Should Help Build Kids’ Digital Skills

Edsurge

Whereas when they think of technology in the home, they are thinking of eyes glued to smartphones and tablets—that sort of thing,” Shannon-Missal says. He points to the report on the Class of 2030, which he says found that “everybody was focused on social and emotional skills.”

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. Each of three groups used tablets, interactive touchscreen displays or paper worksheets to learn and practice concepts. Why the difference in enthusiasm between the tablet and interactive display groups?

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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Doctors prescribe more Big Bird, less brainless “screen time” for young kids

The Hechinger Report

The guidance takes a more realistic approach, acknowledging that toddlers may benefit from new technologies such as video chat and that most preschoolers are using tablets and other technology already. Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense.

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