21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Welcome to this first in a series of posts devoted to student centered learning in the technology enhanced classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1, or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. I have five powerful ideas on facilitating student centered learning with technology in this post.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“I was chatting with co-founder Deep Sran about education innovation, specifically educational technology, and we started to brainstorm ideas of how to advance different aspects of the student learning experience,” explains Goyal. Goyal understands the human fascination with developing new technologies.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this fifth post you will discover how careful examination of the verbs in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Simply adding technology to a classroom doesn’t make it an innovative space. How does the technology actually improve on what we’ve done in the past?” EDTECH: When you talk about the “modern learning environment” in your book, what do you mean? If the technology doesn’t meet all your criteria, don’t use it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

A frequent question from readers revolves around technology goals for students. But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It’s the pencils and books of our digital world. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. Betsy Corcoran is co-founder of EdSurge.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 6, 2017

Parents often find technology a roadblock to helping their children with classwork. help them understand how technology supports the school’s mission and overarching curricula (such as Common Core or Everyday Math). how to decode domain-specific language associated with technology, i.e., cloud . how to use email.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Though I was technology savvy, none of my classwork or student teaching prepared me for this. I started exploring online resources like Code.org and Tynker, but even those offered limited support at the time. I became increasingly frustrated with the lack of technology support and PD opportunities in our district.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

The interventions support the eight to eleven percent of all children in DC who have signs, symptoms or diagnosable emotional and mental health conditions, including those related to trauma. Book: Lost at School, by Dr. Ross Green. Why did you decide to adopt special education case management technology?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

So essentially you go through your wireless router, and instead of pointing to the DNS for your internet service provider (ISP), which is kind of like an internet phone book, you point to Open DNS, and it gives you a ton of control. He has eighteen years of experience in K-12 technology support serving in a wide variety of roles.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Digital media and technology are increasingly a part of our lives, but it's important that we're conscious of the media choices we're making. Overall, it's essential to think about whether digital media and technology are enhancing students' learning, or potentially even detracting from it.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2018

I feel like their generation was brought up around technology. Kids are growing up with technology when they’re born, they are all up-to-date on new technology and they even teach me new things. What kinds of technology do your students use in the classrooms? How comfortable are they using technology as a learning tool?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the meantime, here's the title and abstract of my keynote: Technology Supported Learning: What has been, and what is yet to come In recent years education has been assailed by waves of new technologies, theories and practises. Some have penetrated deeply into education while others are still peripheral.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Innovative educators know how to move technology from being viewed as a weapon of mass distraction to being used as a tool of engagement, but this isn’t intuitive for everyone. Start with these ideas of ways to use technology to support teaching and learning. At the time, his number was in the phone book.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Image from Pixabay Here are some of my recent (and random) thoughts about the future, science fiction and technology reality. My lifelong interest in technology has almost certainly been inspired by reading science fiction novels. Dick - books from all of these writers and many others were stacked on my bedroom shelves.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2015

We talked about the latest developments in technology supported education and discussed the contents of my new book. We shared some useful resources, talked about our favourite blogs and books, and discussed the concept of '' e-learning 3.0 '', the digital natives and immigrants theory (don''t miss that bit!)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

In November 2021, she was relieved to hear her union was organizing a rally to demand higher wages for teacher’s aides (also known as paraprofessionals) and other support staff, such as secretaries, health techs, campus supervisors and information technology support workers. In November 2022, she submitted her resignation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 9, 2015

We will also hear from the OU's Professor Martin Weller (his latest book The Battle for Open is available to download online here) and journalist Audrey Watters.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2017

He reads Spanish and bilingual books on the Epic books app. What I've Learned So Far I discovered from training and actual experience that many of the strategies recommended to support and empower ELLs are good instructional practices for working with all young learners. And Quizizz allows me to create Spanish assessments.

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MindShift

MARCH 8, 2017

” Students might be designing, programming and learning about technology under the auspices of such a curriculum. They’ll learn to run the books, find clients and use design software to make different products for those clients. Jacob Bowers teaches a variety of agriculture classes in his town of Pella, Iowa.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2017

His primary responsibilities include the coordination of state chapters, STEM, virtual circles and NNSTOY Fellows, video production and technology support. He served as a senior developer on The Composition Book Jam and has authored numerous articles and blogs. Joe is also an award winning educator and filmmaker.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

These standards call for students to make effective and well-organized presentations and to use technology to enhance understanding of them. Technology Support —It can’t be assumed that students have experience using technology tools in presentations. GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He and others say the proposal would require new money for training, technological support and more teachers. Some of them are artists, some of them like computers and some of them just like books.”. The state can’t afford that, and local systems can’t afford it either,” he said. I wouldn’t have thought of that,” she said.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 16, 2013

For his students, he made a difference by taking over a library that had become moribund, out of date, anachronistic, completely disorganized and with no technology. In two years he turned it into a much more modern, way more up-to-date, fully automated functioning library that circulates 200 books a week.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In this context, it is perhaps easier to understand how resistance to technological forces comes about. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Marvin Minsky, has argued that intelligence is to be found in the collective behaviour of large groups of interconnected machines (Minsky, 1987). London: Pan Books. Negroponte, N.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Teachers, staff, and admin will respond better when you show them one tip at a time instead of everything you might know about technology. I know, badges aren''t everything but learning from the #LevelUp Book Club - people enjoy earning prizes, badges, & street cred! Keep it short and sweet! and then let them teach the teachers.

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