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Technology is key to educating the next generation

eSchool News

Increasing students’ access to technology tools in the classroom is key to reversing these trends. For teachers, closing the achievement gap will mean embracing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. AI can also help kids exercise their imaginations. Opportunities for technology-enabled learning extend beyond AI.

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Tools and strategies to make remote learning click for all students

Neo LMS

don’t have a broadband connection and don’t own a laptop or computer. You can begin with the format in which you provide your exercises. Don’t introduce certain technological platforms as permanent solutions. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide. Get practical.

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Addressing Technology Addiction In Your Kids

Georgia Test Prep

Poetic musings aside, we do need to talk about a serious problem that many kids born in the digital age may face: technology addiction. How does Technology Addiction happen? There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and this applies to technology as well. Harmful effects of Technology Addiction.

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Edsurge

It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. of California’s Public Contract Code only addressed online learning in the context of surplus technology and nonprofit computer labs.

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Remote Learning Is Not Going Away Soon. This Is How to Make It Better.

Edsurge

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Disclosure: Two of the report’s authors, Richard Culatta and Joseph South, work at the International Society for Technology in Education, which is the parent organization of EdSurge.) The report also includes a foreword co-written by five former U.S.

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Students’ Physical and Mental Health Declined During the Pandemic. Could a New Telehealth Initiative Help?

Edsurge

On the other hand, researchers have found a positive correlation between physical exercise and particular types of cognitive skills, particularly executive function. The children who participated in exercise significantly outperformed those who watched television.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

And – less widely discussed – there are decades of scholarship on how to teach with synchronous technologies. Those that do might struggle with limitations of data caps or competing with folks thrust together in a lockdown and each hungry for broadband. The pedagogical dimension – the whole point of the exercise!