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What is Digital Accessibility? (And Why It’s Crucial at Schools)

ViewSonic Education

Robust: the content should be able to be reliably interpreted by user agents such as assistive technology. . This is especially important with any digital media that is directly accessible by students, such as online learning materials, as well as any digital media that is used by teachers during lessons. .

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

Support for macOS and Android will follow, meaning it will be able to be used on desktop or laptop computers and smartphones or tablets without the need for any other accessories. All of this means that immersive, metaverse learning is already accessible to people with computers and smartphones, and the range of options is only going to grow.

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Top 10 Education Tech Trends in 2022

Kitaboo on EdTech

Even other physical objects like whiteboards, digital boards, tablets, digital pens, and translation devices are considered to be part of the Edtech ecosystem. . Edtech allows learners to learn and teachers to teach despite language barriers, inability to gather physically in one place, network and bandwidth problems, etc.

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning. Every computer and iPad has it.”.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

Edsurge

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. Some schools rushed to get laptops and tablets to students in need.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

Online courses, interactive multimedia content, and educational apps cater to diverse learning styles, allowing students to engage with the material at their own pace. The integration of interactive whiteboards, tablets, and educational software in classrooms has made learning more dynamic and engaging.

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eBook Reader Apps – The Next Best Investment for K12 Organizations

Kitaboo on EdTech

Other regions too, saw a rise in the consumption of eBooks and online education resources such as the UK (21%) and Asia (17.3%). A recent survey by Pew Research shows that more people read books – both as a hobby and as part of their school/college courses – on their phones and tablets. eBook Apps Increase Efficiency.

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