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MAY 14, 2021

The online activities can be used for one-on-one instruction using a computer, tablet, or class instruction on an interactive whiteboard. Books are read on the website or a tablet. In school subscriptions, quizzes are available to assess student basic comprehension skills. Unite for Literacy.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

When I first started teaching 18 years ago, I could introduce digital citizenship to my students on my own time line, since primary graders weren't as immersed in the digital world as they are now. Today, our digital citizenship work starts on the first day of school.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

The MobyMax tablet is $69!! Wifi and speakers are built-in and there is headphone input so that your students can use MobyMax Tablet independently without disturbing others. MobyMax is reasonably priced enough that even if your classroom doesn’t have classroom computers, you could have several Moby Tablets.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners. ELLs of all ages are now able to work through lessons anytime and anywhere.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

All you need is a special app that loads onto a tablet or smartphone. Tom’s Digital Breakouts offer free games this teacher created and freely shares with others. Subjects covered include ELA, Math, Science, History, and Digital Citizenship. He also offers a Digital Breakout Template that can be downloaded.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Now, children are digital natives. Children as young as two are utilizing tablets, exploring the apps on smartphones, and accessing knowledge via the internet. There are countless strategies and resources at your fingertips, but this article will spotlight the importance of digital teacher support for your blended learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Surface tablet : hold down volume and Windows button. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Chromebooks : Ctrl+Window Switcher key. iPad : hold Home button and power button simultaneously.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

girl holding a touchpad tablet. In 2015-16, 86 percent of the district’s fifth-grade students scored as proficient in math on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam—up from 75 percent the prior year. When I saw Stepping Stones, I knew that’s what I wanted,” she said. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2019

Many lesson plans include a video overview and a quiz to assess understanding of the material (though you can’t grade it without an account). A favorite of mine is the sixty-minute lesson on digital citizenship. Students and you can watch the videos and access the lessons from a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone. **.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s also the problem of assessing this sort of non-metric thinking. It is an online student-driven performance tracker that uses the metrics of goal-setting and reflection to assess progress. Here’s how students use Sown To Grow: Join a class via a computer or tablet-sized device and see teacher-created activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

Tablets, laptops, educational gaming software, and smartphones allow schools to: Personalize the learning experience. Efficiently assess student progress as often as once a week, for more carefully tailored educational experiences. Increase student engagement and collaboration through social media, simulations, and games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Digital devices, especially smartphones and tablets, have become an appendage for schools. He also served on a number of curriculum and assessment committees. More on digital devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 2015

Your smartphone or tablet is your gateway to the world of music. The app allows the use of either an electric or acoustic guitar, and it employs the tablet or phone’s microphone to hear what the student plays to assess progress. Do you want to learn how to play an instrument or sing?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

You don’t have to buy expensive glasses, you can just use your smartphone or a tablet for educational purposes. Using the dashboard of this app, you can assess the impact of your teaching style and the performance of your students. Just remember what a huge hit Pokemon Go was this summer. Elements 4D.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Augmented Reality (AR) for Art and Design: Use AR applications to overlay digital elements on students’ physical artwork or designs, allowing for interactive presentations and enhancing creativity in art and design classes. Furthermore, technology cultivates digital literacy, equipping students with skills needed in the digital age.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. tools to assess schoolwide progress and results. ability to send a message to one person or a class.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

While I''ve written quite a bit about assessing writing (ad nauseum) via digital means, reading instruction and assessment have remained a primarily paper-based enterprise in my class. edmodocon On @Gobstopper students can read on a tablet, smartphone or laptop. Gobstopper is MOBILE! A highlight of my experience!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

The online activities can be used for one-on-one instruction using a computer, tablet, or class instruction on an interactive whiteboard. Books are read on the website or a tablet. In school subscriptions, quizzes are available to assess student basic comprehension skills. Unite for Literacy.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 20, 2018

Pear Deck is an active learning and formative assessment tool that makes your presentations completely interactive! Pear Deck is fully loaded with templates for each stage of the assessment process, vocabulary games, Google tool integration, and helps teachers engage students and create collaborative conversations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Founded in 2012, Nearpod initially launched its “interactive lecture” platform for iPads, at a time when many schools and districts swooned over the tablets. The app initially focused on allowing teachers to build their own multimedia-rich presentations and assessments, beam them to students’ devices, and monitor their activities.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A student''s smartphone or tablet does not have to just be used for a special occasion in the classroom. The Final Product Students type up an outline for their case and is an individual grade assessing ability to follow directions, craft a legitimate argument and demonstrate understanding of outline format.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

There's also a huge upside: Many teachers have used social media to share best practices, provide an authentic audience for student work, cultivate digital citizenship among their students, and build more connected school communities. DO: Use photo-editing tools on your phone or tablet. jpg").

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

I was looking at the line up of sessions and workshops on the ISTE website: Digital forms, badge systems, tablets for primary students, writing technology grants. I know, because we assessed ourselves as a school last year on digital citizenship and the 4Cs. We were emerging in these areas, across the board.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

I was looking at the line up of sessions and workshops on the ISTE website: Digital forms, badge systems, tablets for primary students, writing technology grants. I know, because we assessed ourselves as a school last year on digital citizenship and the 4Cs. We were emerging in these areas, across the board.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 23, 2015

Device tune-up : update/refresh/re-image your tablets, laptops, and desktops. Add apps to your tablets. Did you buy new laptops or tablets? Find your digital cameras. Include something about digital citizenship and home screen behavior. – Fast and fun game-based formative assessment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Digital Citizenship. Karen Mossberger, Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, defines digital citizenship simply as “the ability to participate in society online.”

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 26, 2015

A quick look at the Future Ready Schools framework reveals seven major areas of concern that are framed by leadership: 1) Budget and Resources, 2) Use of Time, 3) Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, 4) Technology and Hardware, 5) Data and Privacy, 6) Community Partnerships, and 7) Professional Learning. Laptops, Tablets, and Chromebooks?

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

Today educational organizations rely on computers and tablets to provide a more flexible approach to classroom learning, forming the dynamics of how educators and students interact. A school computer or tablet provides the student with an access point to a vastly infinite amount of content over the internet, some appropriate and some not.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Recent research is fueling debate about the role that digital media may play in strengthening educational opportunities for all students. Common Sense has been among the nation’s pivotal advocates in promoting digital citizenship and inclusion and in leading efforts to reverse the " app gap."

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Recent research is fueling debate about the role that digital media may play in strengthening educational opportunities for all students. Common Sense has been among the nation’s pivotal advocates in promoting digital citizenship and inclusion and in leading efforts to reverse the " app gap."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. To meet these challenges, educators must teach digital citizenship, an essential digital age skill that students need to become safe, responsible and respectful participants in a digital world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Kathy’s passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, assessment and rubrics, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type. Monica Burns. Blog: Class Tech Tips. –published first on TeachHUB.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August. “Ohio State collaborates with Apple to launch digital learning initiative,” the university announced in October. The company has raised some $77.5 “Forget ‘US News’ Rankings.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 3, 2019

Over the past few decades, the average classroom has seen a shift from analog to digital technologies. This is particularly beneficial as an assessment for a learning tool, as it allows both the teacher and students to revisit their previous work as the topic progresses. Emphasize digital citizenship.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Digital Devices. Digital devices include PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, and Surface Tablets. Online quizzes are no longer the purview of teachers requiring summative assessments. Many of these will grade the assessment, graph the results, and share data with stakeholders. K-8, Critical, 3/5.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Students can visit the site from desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones. That’s fine–I need these opportunities to teach digital citizenship. This site is perfect for the holidays when you want to slow things down a bit, as well as during annual assessments when students need an injection of humor.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Desmos has created an activity builder that teachers can use to build interactive lessons that students can do on their own tablet or Chromebook devices while the teacher monitors student work in real time. As its name suggests, Formative is an online tool that teachers can use to create formative assessments (you see what they did there?)

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