Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Jotform works on all platforms (including tablets, desktop computers, and smartphones) and can be shared via a link, QR Code, and embed (as well as other options). Once you’ve completed the app, it can be downloaded onto any smartphone, tablet, or computer, shared to your social media, or pushed out via a link or QR code.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Department of Education reports show that technology can potentially transform education. Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. The majority of learners are comfortable using their personal devices to access schoolwork.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

. “While the pervasive use of tablets, smartphones, laptops and digital education content is expanding around us, in the classroom, students are not actively using these technologies for learning—even within well-equipped classrooms where access is not the problem,” the report says.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

So, it should not be surprising that only 27% of 8th and 12th-grade students earned a score of proficient in writing in the last report published in 2011 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). All of these aspects of writing benefit from dedicated class time, access to peer support, and teacher feedback.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2020

“In an ongoing quest to maintain students’ attention, new visualization and interaction tools are a natural fit,” says Eric Abbruzzese, principal analyst at ABI Research, in a press release for their “Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education” report.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 14, 2020

“In an ongoing quest to maintain students’ attention, new visualization and interaction tools are a natural fit,” says Eric Abbruzzese, principal analyst at ABI Research, in a press release for their “Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education” report.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Tampa, FL – September 24, 2021 – The Washington Post reported 14 school shootings between March and June 2021 despite pandemic-related school closures. Vector LiveSafe is an advanced tip reporting and safety communication platform for organizations, including schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2023 calculations by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report reveal that fewer than 1 in 5 countries have legislation in place to prevent and act on cyberbullying in school. Cyberbullying in particular is fueled by a lack of proper policies and wide access to smartphones and other devices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

The report is quite interesting from an academic library perspective,” said Beth McNeil, 2023-2024 president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and dean of libraries at Purdue University. Gen Z students typically carry multiple devices (think laptop or tablet, smartphone, headphones) that need juice. the report noted.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . Fourteen percent of children ages 3 to 18 lack home internet access , according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Titled Mind the Gap: Closing the Digital Divide through affordability, access, and adoption , the report from Connected Nation (CN), with support from AT&T, provides new insights into why more than 30 million eligible households are not opting to access internet service at home or leverage the ACP. However, 82.4

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Schools of all shapes and sizes have done a wonderful job at protecting their students, especially if we’re talking about the physical premises; there are gated campuses, security guards, access cards, surveillance cameras and even AI-powered software that contribute to maintaining a safe environment. How to install a new antivirus?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

Rules for responsible smartphone use can vary by age and student. An April Pew Research Center study reported that 88 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds have or have access to some sort of phone; 73 percent have or have access to a smartphone. Next page: Resources to provide parents.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Digital access. Although we live in a digital era, not everyone has access to technology. More and more educators require from their students assignments which should be done online, but there is a downside to it: not all students can afford a computer/smartphone and access to the Internet. Digital commerce.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

BLUFFDALE, UTAH – Listen Technologies Corporation , a leading provider of wireless listening solutions for 24 years, is proud to report that Listen EVERYWHERE has helped a high school student with hearing loss participate more fully in his school’s musical theater production of Anastasia. . Happy to “Feel Included”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Educators and caregivers may wonder why, as researchers, we are promoting a positive view of digital technologies for young adolescents, when an array of headlines suggest that smartphones and social media are responsible for problems ranging from rising rates of childhood obesity to a youth mental health epidemic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. A cellular model works very, very well.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

In a recent study from educational nonprofit Project Tomorrow , nearly 62 percent of teachers reported using video games in their classrooms. Cloud technology allows video game streaming on nearly any device , from smartphones to traditional game consoles. You have access to a limited library of games.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2023

Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? Instead, people use a digital calendar that automatically syncs life events across all of their digital devices. And then charge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2023

To prevent this, teachers try approaches such as summer book reports, but students complain they intrude on their summer time. Share it in a teacher-provided summer activity folder (this should be quick to use, maybe through Google Drive if students have access to that). When teachers make it optional, many don’t participate.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 1, 2022

The design world is now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of digital accessibility and catering to those with color blindness. . This most commonly refers to ensuring that all hues are displayed properly across all devices, such as cameras, computers, and smartphones, as well as print media. .

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Schools are following suit: Technavio’s “ Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector 2018-2022 ” report predicts a nearly 48 percent growth rate for AI tools over the next three years. . The best bet for schools adopting AI is to define how these solutions can drive positive outcomes before allowing them access to student data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Students Miss Their Teachers If anything from the survey results surprised Raeal Moore, a principal research scientist at ACT and an author of the report, it was that students who were stuck at home wished they “had somebody there in person to help them navigate the learning experience,” she says.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2020

As students and professors move across campuses, they leave plenty of digital traces—such as when their smartphones connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, or when they swipe their keycards to unlock buildings or enter dorm rooms. That said, the report and other experts note that participation in any tracing program must be widespread to be effective.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Governor John Bel Edwards reported that several school districts in Louisiana were recently struck by cyberattacks. Over one million children were victims of identity theft just a little under two years ago, according to Javelin Strategy & Research’s report. Personal information is a precious commodity.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. However, some courses are chargeable.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With smartphones in our hands, virtual assistants in our homes and various ed-tech tools in our classrooms, we all rely on technology to make our lives easier during this stressful period. Here are five of them: Access to learning materials anytime, anywhere. For them, accessing learning content without limits should be a given.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund a series of research reports called Teachers Know Best. In 2015 they released a interesting report titled What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools 2.0 , that sought out 3100 educators to establish the state of technology integration across K12. Making a spreadsheet. Conclusion.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A new study confirms that, despite efforts to close the space, the gap between students who have access to devices and the internet and those who lack it compounds equity problems within U.S. Even when families have one device at home, that device is often a smartphone, which isn’t conducive to completing homework or doing research.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. According to techcrunch.com , the average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 28, 2020

The first thing parents need to arrange is online access. Fortunately, most people have smartphones, and it is possible to access online teaching platforms from a phone. The family can choose the time a child accesses her lessons. If it means your child needs to access recorded lessons at a particular time, so be it.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In 2014, only one in four students had direct access to technology in class. Today, 95% of high school students access schoolwork on their smartphones whenever and wherever they need it. 91% of teachers reported students have a 1:1 ratio to digital devices—skyrocketing up from 54% just four years ago. How did we get here?

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Neo LMS

MARCH 20, 2018

Mobile learning is generally defined as training or education conducted via a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet, generally connected to a wireless network such as GSM, G3 or Wifi. This study found that in 2017, 71% of teens claimed to either own or have use of a smartphone. 7 PROs and CONs of m-learning in the classroom.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Just over half of children in the United States — 53 percent — now own a smartphone by the age of 11. “Pinterest — that’s where I look for drawing inspiration and sometimes clothes inspiration when I’m leaving for school,” the 16-year-old explains as she gives a reporter a tour of her smartphone.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2018

More children than ever have easy access to mobile devices at home and in school, making it critical to impart strong digital citizenship lessons to students. Teenagers’ social media use has doubled in recent years , from 34 percent who reported using social media multiple times a day in 2012 to 70 percent reporting the same today.

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