EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Learn more at the conference master classes page. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Persons with disabilities may struggle with coordination problems, short attention spans, and limited mobility, which may or may not be obvious. Whether the symptoms are apparent or not, these disabilities can affect their cognitive and learning processes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Links to Local Learning. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Broadband’s Big Picture.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I Ertmer and Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich that refers not just to whether technology is used in the classroom but also when and how teachers use technology to improve learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

ATLANTA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Incident IQ, the workflow management platform built for school districts, released an integration with ClassLink—a global education provider of access and analytics products that create more time for learning and help schools better understand digital engagement. Visit classlink.com to learn more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, March 31, 2022 — Leveraging standards-based instructional content and its award-winning technology, Vernier Software & Technology is announcing Vernier Connections , an innovative web-based platform to engage high school students in hands-on STEM learning and exploration.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . MORE FROM EDTECH : Learn how project-based learning fosters skill building and real-world relevance for students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the shift to technology adoption in schools. However, this push to digitize doesn’t just involve remote learning technologies, but also tools for in-person learning. These touchscreens help bring learning alive, off the page and into the actual world.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

During an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate , Eric Butash, Director of Education Technology and Data Integration for the district, discussed how they used data analytics to build their personalized student learning pathways. Then, they needed to look at the data governance: Who has access to what data and where?

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N2Y

AUGUST 7, 2020

For many students with disabilities, assistive technology (AT) is critically important in removing barriers to mobility, communication, socialization, and learning. Download this white paper to learn more about: How assistive technology supports students in the 13 IDEA categories of disability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with varied ways to access content, or five levels of text was what defined a master teacher. But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2024

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) said that maintaining device access is one of their big goals for the year, and a solid 87 percent of respondents stated that sustaining 1:1 initiatives at their current levels is a top priority for 2024. Only in doing so will we be able to make progress in our core mission, which is to help students learn.”

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Quality Is Key Educators seek engaging, hands-on, interactive content that allows students to participate fully and think critically throughout the learning process. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . MORE FROM EDTECH : Learn how project-based learning fosters skill building and real-world relevance for students.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . MORE FROM EDTECH : Learn how project-based learning fosters skill building and real-world relevance for students.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

Though many schools teach ICT as a discrete subject, the PYP strongly emphasises that technology should also be used as a tool for learning by all teachers and students. The PYP acknowledges the transformative potential of technology, when it is used purposefully and meaningfully as a tool to facilitate learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2022

We’re now two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and we continue to see massive digital transformation and innovation shaping the way we live, work, and learn. Technology supports the transformation of every industry imaginable–especially education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

. — Discovery Education today unveiled a new collection of engaging, high-quality digital learning resources supporting Black History Month observances. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform nurtures student curiosity and supports learning wherever it takes place.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

That’s the beauty of ClassLink—it’s technology that makes using other technology easier. For us, SSO has become a learning enabler when sometimes technology can be a learning variable. Can you imagine an edtech tool so supportive and effective teachers cheer when it arrives? That’s been my motivation.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

While it is important to assess students’ learning and keep some records of what skills they have mastered, the more important process of learning involves dialogue, teacher feedback, student learning conversations and self-reflection. Still, we needed to identify the most important and critical areas to focus on.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

That’s why we must provide every opportunity we can for all children to access and benefit from high-quality preschool programming. One opportunity worth exploring is a proposed digital early learning pilot program in North Carolina, which is designed to better prepare at-risk youth for kindergarten.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2019

Esports Equipment Can Support Other School Initiatives. In competitive gaming, milliseconds matter , and the technology supporting students can make or break an esports venture. DOWNLOAD: Get CDW’s white paper “A Modern Learning Environment.”. Joe McAllister is a learning environment advisor at CDW•G.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Technology has the potential to be a powerful tool for improving access to learning for adult learners. According to a Tyton Partners study , there is increasing demand for education technology among adult education program administrators and educators. Learn more by reading the full report.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Purchased as part of Spring ISD’s most recent school bond, the BenQ Boards were chosen over other smart board vendors because of the rich and forward-thinking feature set the BenQ Boards offer, including ease of use and flexibility for teachers, advanced learning tools for students, and free built-in remote management solutions for IT.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2018

Our Summer SuperHighway blog series celebrates the educators that inspire us and showcases the ways that digital learning impacts their students. How comfortable are they using technology as a learning tool? Eighty percent of my students are very comfortable [using technology].

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Learning environments are becoming more flexible, teaching methods are changing to accommodate different learning styles, and student collaboration is playing an increasingly important role in the classroom. SCALE-UP is turning many aspects of the traditional classroom upside-down, including how technology is used. out of 5.5.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district–one of the largest in the United States–are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The answer is to value staff by providing them with relevant learning opportunities as they work. In many large organisations today this is changing, with learning and development now conducted largely while employees are on the move, or sitting at their work stations. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. We have come a long way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

EdSurge: How is math instruction evolving, and how does technology support this? It’s really helped my students make fewer mistakes and learn the process. But if you jump in and realize the advantages, you will find yourself quickly learning how to use it. Wood: It’s been changing for a while.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

of technology in practice. Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. ELI is a comprehensive three-year plan to close the digital divide and empower every learner through investment in technology?, information and access for families? and only Isolated good examples?

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Some traditional educators may still view student access to technology as a privilege, but it is not. Today, technology is necessary for learning to be accessible, real, and relevant in the modern world. The college, careers, and citizenship for which our students need to be prepared require the use of technology.

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