eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The AI Revolution: Google’s Developers on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (60 Minutes) AI in the K-12 Classroom (AVID Open Access) Artificial Intelligence (U.S. For many, it is exciting, unsettling and overwhelming all at the same time. Learn about AI. Begin by gaining a basic understanding of artificial intelligence.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

In this podcast series, Kasey explains the important updates teachers need to know. Everyone remembers THAT teacher. The study hall teacher who walked you through your first college application. The social studies teacher who taught you what taxes were AND how to file them. Did you miss Part 1?

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Adjuncts may also be at a disadvantage when it comes to technology access and support. I wish adjuncts had the same access to teaching online as full-time faculty. I wish adjuncts had the same access to teaching online as full-time faculty. Yet she has had to do double the adapting of most full-time faculty.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This was Susan’s first year presenting at FETC, the Future of Education Technology Conference. 13 Awesome Feedback Tools for the Classroom To begin her session, Susan asked the 25 teachers who joined her to discuss how it feels as a student to receive feedback, and then how, as a teacher, it feels when we hear feedback from an administrator.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions. As the world’s understanding of and policies related to COVID-19 evolve , science illiteracy can cause misunderstanding or mistrust in the scientific process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Who has access to it? Who has access to it? But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. And oftentimes, they’re coming from parties that have not typically had a voice in this conversation: parents, teachers and students themselves.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. Who spends their time measuring triangles?

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

In this post, we will be discussing these essential coaching relationships: Coach / Teacher Relationship. For some school districts, the Coach is a core member of a school building serving by the side (and being evaluated by) the building principal. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. Students.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 14, 2022

She’s had early access to Google’s brand new Screencast app for Chromebooks. Screencasting is a powerful tool in the teacher’s pocket. If you’ve ever watched any of the quick tip videos these are all made through screencasting tools. Kasey has been keeping a secret! 20 Ways to Use Screencasting in the Classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We want teachers to know, for example, if a student is trying to access inappropriate, even dangerous online resources or if they’re being bullied or in distress. Teachers generally decide to use a tech tool for its pedagogical purposes. It’s a Triangle, Not a Line. Digital Risk. It’s become part of everyday life.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 17, 2021

Foundational for learning transformation, the four Cs help prepare students for the future. The post Back to School with the 4 C’s [Aligned Activities]- SULS0123 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The 4 C’s are foundational skills that students need to thrive in the 21st Century. Be sure to listen to the podcast episode!

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? If possible, teachers and professors should use multiple modes of conveying information (video, audio, text slides, etc.)

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer? I imagined such a day was far, far into the future. That was back in October.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. One of my many high school memories is learning the Pythagorean Theorem.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Users can attach photos or videos and intelligent routing ensures tips are sent to the proper department. Emergency options and resources – Users can quickly access 911 or school safety officials, who can leverage location data in an emergency. It provides the user’s location without them having to type or say anything.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

For some school districts, the Coach is a core member of a school building serving by the side (and being evaluated by) the building principal. For some school districts, the Coach is a core member of a school building serving by the side (and being evaluated by) the building principal.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

MTSS is the topic of our blog post today! As educators, our calling extends beyond just imparting knowledge. Our classrooms are diverse tapestries of minds, each with its unique rhythm of learning, challenges, sand strengths. What is MTSS? MTSS stands for “Multi-Tiered System of Supports.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

If it went well, Khan Academy would prove, on a large scale, that teachers are critical to the successful use of technology in learning. If it went well, Khan Academy would prove, on a large scale, that teachers are critical to the successful use of technology in learning. LAS VEGAS — Sal Khan made a radical decision last summer.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

This can get lost in the online exchange between teacher explanation and student response. It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

The future of tech in schools isn’t suburban or urban. It happened back in 2008 when new policies and funding sources were put forth with the intent to grow school districts’ abilities to supplement and meet the diverse needs of students—specifically in the face of foreign language teacher and Advanced Placement honors-level course shortages.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This week in S’Cool Tools, we again share the real experiences of three teachers using three different tools, written in their own words. . If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Initially we launched Edthena with our brand new teachers.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Teachers. Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. This past week, because of their hard work, this book has been published through Amazon. It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. The Table of Contents.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Simply stated, examining or unpacking a standard allows a teacher to see what a child will know and be able to do. Welcome to the third in this series of posts promting the idea of going to SAMR and beyond. I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). Quick Notes.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

Every teacher’s professional development must keep up. 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. I feel scared and uncertain.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

Students spend more time in school, the staffing model is focused on building teacher capacity and includes tiered levels of educators, and the school uses a home-grown technology tool, Cortex , which was built in-house by Mote, a technologist by trade. Stay tuned for the complete guide, due out in April. This work is supported by NGLC.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Inside a rural high school, five Advanced Placement physics students furiously scribbled notes about a video of a Yale University professor speaking more than 1,200 miles away. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 16, 2019

I am posting it here so I can easily access it and share with others in the future. As an online teacher, it will be my privilege and responsibility to ensure any students entrusted to me experience meaningful learning which will enrich their lives by moving them toward reaching their personal and professional goals.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

While the authors of the 2017 National Educational Technology Plan recommended that, “every new teacher should be prepared to model how to select and use the most appropriate apps and tools to support learning and evaluate these tools against basic privacy and security standards,” this has not come to fruition.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

When they talk to schools, their focus is on the classroom teachers and getting them to understand the value. Noakes emphasized that the process must include an equity assessment—can all of the students and teachers access the tech outside of school? Small district: Dr. L. Developer: Dr. Ayanna Howard, CTO, Zyrobotics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester. LONGMONT, Colo. — Vrain Valley School District.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable. This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Learning Targets could be assessed in different ways: Through regularly-scheduled quizzes ( here's an example ), oral quizzes done in office hours, or through making a short video of a custom-assigned problem. I post there every other Monday (David does the other Mondays). Nearly all the students are CS majors. Here's the syllabus.

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Securly

JANUARY 11, 2024

For example, if you support iOS devices like Macs or iPads (or may need to in the future), you need a filter that can handle typical iOS web filtering challenges. You’re faced with either wasting time on workarounds, or requiring your teachers to take on the burden of helping students log in. #2:

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

. — Inside a rural high school, five Advanced Placement physics students furiously scribbled notes about a video of a Yale University professor speaking more than 1,200 miles away. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As classroom teachers led classrooms through turn-key lessons and helped students apply what they learned to their goals and challenges, Jim took it even further by having assemblies to showcase the learnings happening in each classroom. Listed here is the second group of the program’s finalists. Jim embraced EmpowerU immediately.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

In some software, gating is a way for teachers to lever up or hold back individual students so that they can surge forward if they are high achievers or remain with a group. New software allows students to get more than run-of-the-mill digitized teacher-created and whole lessons, so they can surge forward through to higher subjects.

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