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Crunch the Numbers:New Data on Student Wellbeing, the Skills Gap Crisis, and Tech Usage in Utah

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This report reflects insights shared by more than 29,000 students in TSI’s Annual Student Survey and more than one million responses from its K-12 collaborative learning platform, #WinAtSocial — making it the largest data set of its kind, spanning grades 3 – 12 in schools across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

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Not so long ago, students did most of their learning at school, and maybe while doing homework or during trips to the museum. Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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There’s Magic in That Sound: How to Engage Students With Digital Music-Making Tools

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These experiences lend themselves to project-based learning: Students who experience collaborative learning models develop a deeper understanding of the subject, exhibit greater problem-solving and critical-learning skills and convey greater confidence in their learning abilities.

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Five Ways Teachers Can Use—and Create—Augmented Reality Experiences

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Digital puzzle boxes — breakouts Teachers can create activities similar to those in BreakoutEDU, but instead they configure a set of challenges on a computer, and students engage with these challenges via a smartphone, tablet, or Chromebook.

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Samsung launches new STEM learning, collaboration solutions

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has announced two new education solutions to enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum, and create more collaborative learning spaces. “As We really liked Samsung Chromebooks and Galaxy Tablets as they fit course material very well. Developing More Collaborative Learning Spaces.

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Impero Education Pro, SMART partner on classroom management

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Students are learning on iPads, Chromebooks, SMART Boards, smartphones – whatever device is available and fits the activity,” said Greg Estell, president, Education Solutions, SMART Technologies. “As In most schools around the country, computer labs are becoming a thing of the past.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

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Not the tethered headsets and computer-based environments, but the simple Google Cardboard-compatible headsets with a smartphone as the “computer.” In addition, there are apps that allow students to create their own 360° images and videos with the smartphone and many online places to host them.

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