eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Elementary education is the foundation for early learning, providing students with the skills and community they need for future success in school and life. Thanks to today’s technology, helping them start on the right foot is easier than ever – especially with online learning opportunities. The sky’s the limit.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

What are digital learning platforms? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Every Verizon Innovative Learning School is assigned a full-time instructional technology coach to support teachers with effectively integrating technology into learning.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Blended Learning with Google Podcast Series. Blended Learning with Google (Part 1: Do This, Not That!).

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 18, 2022

Learn practice strategies, organization techniques, and a whole list of tools to make teaching this year EASIER! While these tips and tools are extremely helpful in this pandemic environment of teaching, they are also helpful for any blended learning classroom. Virtual learning is here to stay! Digital Tools.

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

As educators across the United States grapple with the new reality facing them and their students as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, many are being advised to implement digital learning—some for the first time. Whether teachers have done this before or not, it’s new territory for everyone. But this is not a typical situation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Here in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

Early stage edtechs are also participating in the AWS EdStart program, the AWS edtech virtual startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision? Leave a comment.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. Teachers, students and parents report that they see great advantage to digital learning.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To help prepare for the 2020-21 school year (and beyond), we created a guidebook titled ‘From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis’ The guidebook provides educators with best practices, practical recommendations, and technology tools to reimagine learning in any classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the 1990s and the rise of online video conferencing, though, it has been possible for educators to choose which activities in their distance-education courses to conduct synchronously and which to leave as asynchronous. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Learn about 85+ applications that integrate with Google Classroom. Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How).

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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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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

So the college is asking its future teachers to make online activity guides and videos for Home Works , a new distance learning program designed to help kids connect the curricula they usually learn in person at school or camp with what’s going on in their real lives—which right now mostly means being stuck at home.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Then they will mention taking one online course and hating it. Then they want to talk to me for 45 minutes about how bad online learning is. We've had more and more of the group in the middle that said, 'I'm not sure' move into a pro online learning stance,” says Seaman, speaking of the academic leaders he surveyed in the past.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Knowing how important it is for her students to interact with her, Olivia does a lot of video and audio communication, and has started organizing portfolios of the videos created by her students. She also encourages them to take “brain and body breaks” that include stretching, yoga, and drawing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Talladega County Schools, a 7,000-student district in east Alabama, has a dozen years of digital learning under its belt. It comes as no surprise that the national transition to remote and hybrid learning models was not easy, according to a recent report. Credit: Talladega County Schools. That seems to be a real struggle.”.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 29, 2020

FREE Webinar: G Suite for School Leaders: Leading the New Normal with a Framework for Meaningful Digital Learning. 10 Ways Google Certification Can Support Remote Learning. Google Quick Tips Video Library for Teachers. G Suite Training for Schools. More Google Resources. The Chromebook Infused Classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Digital learning platforms are not, however, simply a matter of reproducing a print-first approach via high fidelity ebooks. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Those days are coming to an end.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas. Western China shows great educational and technological divides between its urban and rural centers.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 9, 2020

What is Blended Learning? It's a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. 3] Proponents of blending learning cite the opportunity for data collection and customization of instruction and assessment as two major benefits of this approach. [4]

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Overnight, essentially, Canvas usage doubled—everything from the number of users to the number of assignments to the number of videos uploaded.” This meant creating videos, FAQs and other training resources that would help new users make effective use of the product in quick fashion.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

What is Blended Learning? It''s a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. 3] Proponents of blending learning cite the opportunity for data collection and customization of instruction and assessment as two major benefits of this approach. [4]

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Linways Technologies

JUNE 19, 2020

During the transition to online classrooms and online learning management, it’s a common pitfall for most teachers to start relying on a whole bunch of tools to manage their tasks and activities. Share course materials and upload course-related videos or lectures. Sharing course-related files, taking lectures online, etc.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 7, 2020

Learn all about the Infused Classroom model, using Hyperdocs for remote learning, and practical ways to go from analog to digital! Conquer remote learning and digital learning experiences like a pro! Here’s a 2-minute video to learn how! Do you have Chromebooks in the classroom?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. When Karim returns home from school, Celeste has already left for work. They showed some trepidation.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Watch this quick video to learn how! 8 Back-to-School Online Activities for Digital Learning. These 8 back-to-school online activities are meant to get you and your students excited for the beginning of the school year! Video is a great tool for a more creative get-to-know your students, type of activity.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 25, 2022

KITABOO is a one-stop shop to enhance and deliver an amazing digital learning experience for teachers and learners, securely, and at scale. Higher education institutions and corporate organizations are increasingly employing a learning management system to create, deploy and deliver online or blended courses.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He spends a couple hours by himself, making snacks, doing his homework, and playing video games. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. When Karim returns home from school, Celeste has already left for work. They showed some trepidation.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 21, 2020

” Here’s a 2-minute video learn how! A Framework for Blended PD. Include multiple types of media to support learning. As I’ve mentioned before, blended and online learning makes it difficult to get context, and we need to offer multiple ways to process new information.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2011

Notes from a breakout session at South by Southwest Edu 2011 Presenter: David McGeary, Harris County Department of Education, Digital Learning Specialist McGeary helped build the first version of the Texas Tour in ProjectShare Hybrid or blended learning fills the gap between what we teach in the classroom with what they do in the real world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One notable piece of K-12 tech innovation news is the integration of interactive devices and digital learning tools, transforming static learning spaces into dynamic, multimedia-rich environments. Digital learning platforms have transformed the way lessons are delivered and consumed.

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