article thumbnail

Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

In response, students are also choosing the devices they want to use for learning, and why shouldn’t they? Similar to the age-old Apple vs. Android debate, students tend to have personal preferences about the devices they use for learning. Enter the age of BYOD. The benefits of a BYOD program are far-reaching.

BYOD 95
article thumbnail

Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. T he 2015 Speak Up survey findings are the latest in a series of reports released each year by the Irvine, Calif.

Survey 273
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

"Teachers Talk Technology" Report Creates Snapshot of Classroom Technology Use

techlearning

Today, MDR, a division of Dun & Bradstreet, released the second in its State of the K-12 Market Report 2018 series, Teachers Talk Technology , creating a snapshot of how teachers across the country are using classroom technology. Teachers shared their views on both the benefits and challenges of using technology for learning.

Report 42
article thumbnail

Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blended learning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. Step 4 : The DPA report is shared and discussed with the school leadership team. This need served as a call to action of sorts and catalyzed my current work.

article thumbnail

Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Nguyen talked with EdSurge about how to support schools with bring your own device (BYOD) programs, why SSO boosts security, and how it saves his teachers 2500 hours of instruction time each month. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment. After two years, that number had soared to 29,000 users out of a possible 32,000.

BYOD 159
article thumbnail

The digital learning plan every educator should read

eSchool News

North Carolina’s brand new Digital Learning Plan is generating buzz in schools and at the capitol. Here’s what other states can learn. Like every state, educators in North Carolina are struggling with complex demands around digital learning.

article thumbnail

12 districts honored for their innovative digital curriculum transition strategies

eSchool News

She said that every city had Superintendents and other school administration staff worried about how to get every teacher transitioned more fully, taking digital learning objects “out of the shadows” and into core curriculum use.