Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and 77% of school districts have high speed broadband. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Additional Resources from eSpark.

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Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Zoobean (Arlington, Virginia) provides a web application, mobile app, and prospective hardware device through which families can track their independent reading and stay motivated to read. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.) makes it effortless for teachers to integrate music into lessons.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” Literator.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

This is a tone that is becoming increasingly important in the 21st century as access to information increases, as the updating of information happens more naturally, and as blended and mobile learning environments become more common. This all emphasizes the value of uncertainty in learning. Uncertainty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. The number of students proficient on California’s academic standards increased from 26 percent in 2014-15 to 47 percent in 2018-19. High school senior Connor Dunbar. You can learn anywhere,” she said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But deep integration of technology in learning should–ideally anyway–make learning mobile–always-on, asynchronous and self-directed access to both content and collaborators. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Texas State academic standards, for example, are different than all other States so those lesson products showing in search should be biased by geo-location (optional, obviously, and could be statewide or region rather than pinpoint geolocation.) B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph Also from the bill: “TARGETED MARKETING.—The

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies. This is not usually something teachers today consider as their purview.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

According to Futuresource , a UK market research firm, devices running the Chrome operating system accounted for close to 60 percent of all sales of mobile devices in the U.S. But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. K-12 education market in 2017.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Content-based academic standards. Mobile learning. For example, I love the idea of mobile learning, so I attach positive feelings to it that can lead me to cognitive distortions downstream, where I oversimplify it’s function, or catastrophize our continued misunderstanding of its potential in education. Use of data.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? Your shoulders, then.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

In short, the shift from purely academic standards to critical thinking habits supports personalized, 21st century learning through a preceding shift from institution to learner. This is among the biggest and most powerful ideas in “future learning,” and should be central to any meaningful discussion therein. Connectivism.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Seem to ignore that mobile learning is central to education’s future. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning. Look back instead of forward.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

Mobile learning, digital citizenship, design thinking, collaboration, creativity, and on a larger scale, digital literacy (education not yet comfortable enough with these ideas to teach “just citizenship” or “just literacy”),1:1, and more are skills and content bits that every student would benefit from exposure to and mastery of.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Start with the Standards, then get Creative When Edna Tristan became principal of the brand new STEAM Academy in El Rancho Unified School District, her mission was to tie STEAM into the regular classroom through cross-curricular, project-based activities. Not a single classroom has a traditional model of desks in rows.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Academic standards could be supplanted by “other content” As access to information increases and social chatter reaches a never-ending crescendo, the need—and impact of—hundreds and hundreds of academic standards changes. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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