eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

The future looks promising as educational technology companies rapidly build new immersive tools for the classroom. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Mixed reality brings new life to the K–12 classroom. MORE FROM EDTECH: 4 ways to make virtual reality integration pay off. Increase Student Interest Through Content Creation.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

The reason we don’t use technology to the best of its ability is probably due to the lack of technological infrastructure, and because students and teachers at my school don’t see examples of how to fully engage technology in class to learn in new ways. How to overcome the challenges of equitable technology use.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out opportunities for schools to apply for personalized learning funding! For example, if an individual student’s summative assessment is significantly different from previous test data, a teacher may want to look for underlying issues or problems,” Monica Fuglei writes for education blog Room 241.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. 6 Super Science Edtech Ideas. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The company claims that, around the world, 90 million students and educators use its productivity tools, G Suite for Education. On the hardware front, 30 million students are on Chromebooks. It also lets them see which Chromebooks may be due for a hardware update (most need to be refreshed every six-and-a-half years).

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2019

Large technology companies are beginning to see the benefits as well. MORE FROM EDTECH: How K–12 schools can avoid making data center mistakes. Real-World Examples of Hyperconvergence Deployments. Windows servers are now optimized for hyperconverged data centers.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. For example, a educator who is making a restaurant reservation on OpenTable may be delighted to see if their Facebook friends have eaten at that restaurant.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 27, 2018

For teachers with the latest smartboard or new Chromebooks for students, installing the technology is not the end of the process, it’s the very beginning. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Inspire Critical Thinking with Ed Tech.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Some companies are already offering clear pathways to help cut down on tracking cookies so schools can feel more confident in maintaining their students’ privacy while still encouraging the use of online resources and devices in classrooms. For Chromebook users, Google has similar information available. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Across schools, students use devices like Chromebooks for learning because it has many advantages. You need to update these categories often, though some web filters come with databases that the company updates periodically. For example, you can block a website but add a specific webpage within that site to your allowed list.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 17, 2020

This week, I had the opportunity to unite with educators, technology companies, podcasters, and amazing students at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC). For example, at ISTE this past summer, it was clear that the major theme for the vendor floor was Integrations. Podcasting, Podcasting, Podcasting!

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 17, 2020

This week, I had the opportunity to unite with educators, technology companies, podcasters, and amazing students at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC). For example, at ISTE this past summer, it was clear that the major theme for the vendor floor was Integrations. Podcasting, Podcasting, Podcasting!

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JULY 7, 2022

I was still a classroom teacher at the time, hungry for digital tools and strategies; to put the trip in historical edtech context, iPads were only two years old when I went to that first ISTE! The presentation Slides linked above have some templates and examples of Explore Boards.)

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

DLP uses five key points to guide teachers and coaches through the professional-development curriculum: Content Focus: When providing technology coaching, concrete examples are key. 5 Key Points of Professional Development. Sustained Duration: The idea behind this one is relatively simple: Training takes time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So some have Chromebooks, some have PC, some have Macs. Vicki Davis And so if they're doing the stop motion example of mitosis, then you can have two or three kids in there editing, which is fantastic. Vicki Davis Yeah. I can see we're BYOD. She just doesn't ever, some have iPads. So that's really cool. Jesse Lubinsky Exactly.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

You just download it on Google Play or iTunes and use it with your touch Chromebook or iPad after listening to Tom Mullaney share how it works. Now Tom, you and I have talked about two technologies that you’re particularly excited about with Chromebooks — Google Jamboard and Google Expeditions. The free app has lots to play with.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The most hopeful potential impact of 2018’s edtech landscape is the opportunity for nurturing skills that will help students succeed in the future of work. In China, for example, the government is committed to building new maker spaces in schools–to the tune of more than 5,000 new maker spaces opening in schools in 2017, alone.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Give me an example of one you’ve used that you thought was awesome. Vicki: That’s such a fun tool, and we actually have an EdTech Tool Tuesday about that that I’ll link to in the Show Notes if you want to more about Flipgrid. Leslie: We use both Chromebooks and iPads. Vicki: So give me an example of a Google Expedition you love.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 22, 2016

For example, Google Chromebooks are sold for less than $200 and do not require the purchase of additional accessories like keyboards for iPads, which sell for $379 per device and $30-100 for keyboards. Chromebooks are also designed for educational use and are less likely to need expensive repairs, in addition to their longer lifespan.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

The school’s computer science curriculum, for example, starts in preschool with simple wooden robots, allowing students to learn the fundamentals of coding and become confident creating with technology at an early age. If that works at companies like Google and Apple, the same mindset should be in schools.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2018

Setting Teachers and Students Up for Success My company creates interactive and personalized UX, and our job is to make the experience for the teacher and learner as clear and stress-free as possible. For example, we recently worked with an exceptional company, Learning Ally, to create a new audio reader app called LINK.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In your book, you say the project is an example of “charismatic technology.” Quite a few big companies. Nestle was one, they contracted with a Uruguayan game company to make Nestle-themed mini games that were specifically installable on the XO. So if we didn't have cloud computing, Chromebooks still wouldn't be very useful.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 20, 2017

For example, consider moves from purchasing to leasing. For example, today, the research shows that social spaces, music, and video all have educational value, yet such resources are often still blocked in schools using filtering software they have not updated in a decade. Reduce cost with one-year rather than five year warranties.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

And then there’s a lot of other possible neat examples. they are a big time saver for students and teaches on long documents, for example, if you’re writing a book. geg-ohio and runs the award-winning blog www.ControlAltAchieve.com where all of his Google Apps and edtech resources can be found. But that’s a fun thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

Go to www.coolcatteacher.com/edtech and plan your professional development for 2018. There’s many ways to read it that doesn’t require you to sit at your laptop or sit at your Chromebook and stare at the screen the whole day. And if you want to see an example of it, CNN even uses it to make some of their multimedia timelines.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

Quick Take: Interactive displays are a big investment in edtech. While many technologies play a part – Chromebooks , iPads , huddle stations and more – the front-of-room interactive display remains a critical component. Choosing the right IWB will be a very important aspect of a school's edtech investment cycle.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

EdSurge spoke with Häkkinen about the impact of new speech synthesis technologies on student assessments, and how his company is making the most of them. A good example is a type of assistive technology called Read Aloud, where content that is viewed on a screen is also read aloud via text-to-speech synthesis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Vicki: Can you give me an example of a recent Hyperdoc lesson? Give me an example. Vicki: So you’ve given us the suggestion to look at other examples. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Lisa: Yeah.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Vicki: Give me an example. What would be an example of a video you’ve seen in math or in history? Give us an example of a video in an unlikely subject. Vicki: Joe, take us through an example of how you’ve coached a teacher recently through this process of making videos with their class, and the objectives that you covered.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Venkat Ratnam So Ratnam left his 23-year career as a professional services leader for software companies to create a solution that would help his children and others. Say, for example, students are reading about Abraham Lincoln’s childhood and come across the sentence, ‘Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the woods,’” says Ratnam.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

VICKI: So give me some examples. You’ve already given the beginning of the school example where people introduce themselves. Are there some other cool examples for this tool? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In Part II of this series, participants will examine powerful examples and methods for applying global education in learning environments. During Global Leadership Week, partner organizations, companies, school districts and individual schools will design and host virtual events to showcase thought leadership. Register at [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching. Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018. Are there any other rock-solid examples besides Padlet? Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

As an example, I’m doing early settlers this week as one of our units for social studies. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Laura: I am. I love Flipgrid.

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