EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Embarking on an online computer science degree is an exhilarating journey that marries technological innovation with academic rigor. Prospective students should prepare to adapt to a virtual classroom setting, where interactions happen through screens and learning materials are predominantly digital.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

Information Technology. Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject. W071 | Project Based Learning for Your District/Classroom Quickstart.

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Technology STEM Flipped Classroom Maker Movement 94

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: Educators often hear that what they do in the classroom needs to be based on pedagogy. Whether you’re new to teaching, need a refresher or are based outside of the classroom, understanding the foundations of good teaching is important. Their strategies should be tied to pedagogy.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 20, 2020

I arrive in my classroom every morning at around 7:20 am, 40 minutes before my students trickle in. I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. As if the plastic desktops and semi-silent rooms in my classroom were one of their few constants.

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Classroom Academic Standards Guidelines Social Media 162

Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2021

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We hope teachers find these examples to be relevant and useful tools to integrate CS/CT lessons and to replicate and adapt these lessons for their classrooms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After more than two decades in the classroom, supporting students facing intense challenges in their home lives and trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations set by administrators, I’ve finally hit my breaking point and all the compassion I have for my students and my dedication to the field may not be enough to help me recover.

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Academic Standards Meeting Elementary Classroom 149

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

We’ve created award-winning high school programs , re-imagined college courses and leveraged technology to meet the ever-growing mental health needs that have been exasperated by the pandemic. Educators are expected to improve standardized test scores and get students “back on track.” Teachers tell us they feel this tension every day.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The Bare Minimum Of Learning Technology. What is the bare minimum of learning technology integration in a classroom? Prevailing local technology use? In that light, we felt like it represented another kind of idea–a bare minimum of technology integration in an average classroom. Gamify your classroom.

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Technology Common Core Academic Standards iPad 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. Additionally, the curricula are refined through extensive in-classroom experiences with a focus on the equitable distribution of learning.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Given the prevalence of these diverse brains, why do we continue to structure our classrooms and schools in ways that make it so hard for these kids? Working around these needs or hoping children will adapt isn’t something we can continue to do if we truly want all students to flourish.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. What I found was that there’s a lot of kids who are learning climate denial in the classroom. And it’s pretty common that kids either get miseducated or they just learn nothing at all about the phenomenon in classrooms.

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Academic Standards Company Report Course 180

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 157

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a previous EdSurge piece , I described how economics and technology trends tend to drive educational innovation by providing models that reformers build into their visions, sometimes unconsciously. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Brooklyn Lab’s model includes whole group instruction often occurring in a co-taught classroom, small group instruction, independent work with personalized playlists to develop mastery, and passion-driven enrichment. An orchestra has woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings that are each instrumented to play a specific role.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 150

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 Of that figure, about $12.3

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LMS Assessment Company Comparison 115

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. After I had a few years under my belt, I began collaborating with colleagues to incorporate more projects into my classroom.

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Academic Standards Training Course Assessment 149

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 170

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. The technologies are often purchased separately as well. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 82

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching. A little bit of technology doesn’t change much. Tacked-on learning technology can do this. But deep integration of technology–real at-the-marrow fusion of learning model, curriculum, and #edtech? With technology, the name of the game is publishing.

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Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The tool supports checking documents in over 15 languages and integrates with popular learning management systems such as Moodle, Canvas and Google Classroom. It enhances their reputation and underscores their commitment to maintaining high academic standards. Institutions also benefit from promoting authentic work.

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Moodle Software Analysis Academic Standards 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support.

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Tools Academic Standards Elementary Software 74

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I still remember the first time a student refused to step into my classroom. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space. I never imagined those same worksheets would become what made Truman dread the classroom so much.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. How can technology build these connections?

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Student Engagement How To Academic Standards Examples 52

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There’s no disputing the fact that studying to earn a graduate or postgraduate degree via the web is fast growing as an option to the conventional classroom format of education. Quality is not as good as that of daytime or classroom education. As per a recent survey , 5.8 Employers don’t recognize online degrees.

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Education Course Academic Standards System 163

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. But there is no question about how it plans to grow.

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Company Academic Standards Industry Tablets 99

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Other initiatives, however, have come from top-down reform efforts, such as the creation and implementation of academic standards and associated testing regimes that emerged from the accountability movement. As mentioned, education is an extremely complex affair requiring more than just skilled classroom teachers to succeed.

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Libraries Academic Standards Learning System 110

edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. April Mayo is the director of instructional technology for Clayton County Public Schools. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Professional Learning Academic Standards Outcomes Secondary 58

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. The role of technology.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

Technology, collaboration, and new standards are changing the classroom at a rapid pace. As teachers, we are entrusted with our nation’s children, and their futures, yet many of us find ourselves isolated in classrooms without the right training or support. For a classroom teacher, though, this has the opposite effect.

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Academic Standards Case Study Common Core Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. Participants can teach to student avatars in a virtual classroom, check out the Two Bit Circus or attend “Hour of Power,’’ sessions that promise to be “provocative, fun and interactive.”.

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EdTech Blendspace Hapara Educreations 81

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. Technology and Professional Development. Whether face to face, virtual, or both, technology has the potential to personalize professional learning for teachers.

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Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

“By becoming IMS Global certified, Illuminate continues to demonstrate a sincere commitment to interoperability standards,” said Jason Naile, director of instructional technology and media at Forsyth County Schools in Georgia. SchoolCity’s OpenSalt v1, Popcorn v0.1, and Suites v4.1, and 6+ have all earned.

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Academic Standards Learning Assessment Data 41

eSpark

MAY 2, 2016

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question.

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Academic Standards Learning Digital Citizenship Secondary 40

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

We have a law school, we have a school of business and information technology, we have a college of social and behavioral sciences, we have an open college, and we have health sciences and nursing. We have a different approach than most institutions in how we create our curriculum and how that gets moved into the classroom.

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