eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. “We could be 100 percent digital and also at 100 percent low-level learning.” So how do we focus on the interactive piece?”

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Student Engagement EdTech Tools Digital Divide 131

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That can leave parents and educators feeling a sense of anxiety about technology and kids, even as more schools use iPads and Chromebooks and other tech in classrooms. That guest is Lisa Guernsey, director of the teaching, learning and tech program at New America, a nonpartisan think tank. What do we know from developmental science?

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Smartphone Libraries Future Ready Data 209

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. EdSurge: You’ve written many novels, children’s books and stories for newspapers and magazines. Is this a recent book?

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 9, 2017

During this time of decisions within our technology department I am also dealing with a dog in a halo cone due to surgery (innovation that is a disruption to reach a future goal) and a book that is helping me sift through my thoughts on analog behaviors (our desire as a human race to use all our senses and experience realness).

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Handbook Future Ready Android Chromebook 48

Tech Helpful

JUNE 16, 2019

Learning how to think computationally allows users to get the most of their tools. In a tech-rich environment, this looks like teaching students coding, or introducing them to spreadsheet functions to analyze data, or using 3D printers to create models for learning different components in order to answer a bigger problem.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

In this podcast, Tom shares the research and highlights, some of which are included in the book Learning Transformed that he co-authored with Eric Sheninger. Enter the book giveaway contest.). He’s the co-author of Learning Transformed. Research Finding #1: (What Works) Learning must be Interactive. thomascmurray.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Despite myriad challenges schools faced during the pandemic, many will come out of it with richer approaches to teaching and learning. Initiatives include: Building an outdoor restroom to provide expanded outdoor learning. Establishing summer academies to address unfinished learning and learners’ social-emotional status.

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