Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

The internet and the rapid technological improvement are making the world a little bit smaller and are eliminating barriers to learning. Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. What subjects does their service cover?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. The company recently launched a mobile app that allows teachers to snap photos of student’s work incorporate them into MasteryConnect’s platform.

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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. Here were the tips that the mock board members, comprised of education technology investors and founders, had to offer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The role of technology. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. But educators say that technology by itself isn’t what makes Lindsay’s model work. But educators say that technology by itself isn’t what makes Lindsay’s model work. Credit: Courtesy Lindsay Unified School District.

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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.” The school will serve 250 students across five centers this fall. Literator.

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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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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students. Union meetings.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. Final Thoughts Apple’s vision of pushing education towards more creative thinking skills, enabled by technology, is certainly lofty. K-12 education market in 2017.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2015

For example, when technology changes, it impacts the kinds of things we want and need. Updates to technology change what we desire; as we desire new things, technology changes to seek to provide them. Most modern academic standards take a body-of-knowledge approach to education. What should schools teach, and how?

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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. Technology.

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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.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Seem to ignore that mobile learning is central to education’s future. Resist allowing technology to radically alter our classrooms and ways of doing business within them. Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many leaders spoke about the importance of collaborating across districts for a variety of initiatives—from planning a technology implementation to creating buy-in from teachers and providing professional development opportunities. But the innovative work happening in each district is very closely aligned.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Ed note: 2 Pieces for Context– 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education by 2028 and Curriculum is More Important Than Learning Technology. The focus of that piece was technology, and how it might impact the way students learn in the coming decades. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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