Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 16, 2019

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use. Although the article only mentions computers, I let students know the information also applies to using mobile devices, game consoles, iPads and tablets. I teach technology to 450+ second to fifth graders.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

The classroom of the future isn’t far from becoming a reality in 2018. From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. The MathFacts.

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Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2020

You couldn't put a giant mainframe computer in an elementary school building, although it was possible to install "dumb" terminals that could connect back to the mainframe via a phone line. So that's where the students were sent, one at a time, to work on their math lessons — "drill and kill" type exercises.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. Being a co-teacher in Google Classroom has allowed me to keep that connection with students, as their math specialist. And she’s the norm, not the exception.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

What it is: Flipgrid is a video discussion platform for your classroom that lets you engage and capture learning in new and awesome ways. Students can respond with short video responses using any browser, Chromebook, iPad, tablet, or mobile device. Flipgrid works in any classroom, with any age student, and within any subject.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

And neither is elementary-grade science. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. Elementary school is often a forgotten place but it’s the most critical.” Dachille believes that data can determine the type of classroom environment where a teacher can thrive.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. You can create exercises where students are allowed to perform experiments on their device screens.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

But navigating mobile apps doesn’t translate into some of the required tasks for online testing environments. Navigating mobile apps doesn’t translate into some of the required tasks for online testing environments. If you can replace a traditionally paper and pencil test prep exercise with a computer-based one, do it!

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Achieving educational equity doesn’t just happen when schools change their expectations and goals in the classroom. While teachers and staff agree on the value of educational equity, they need a deeper understanding in order to combat it in the classroom. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. In one room, elementary students are buzzing during a reading class. Grant also sees energy for after-school expansion in states such as California, Minnesota and Alabama.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 20, 2019

In order to familiarize students with STEM concepts, it must be introduced at an early age, preferably from the elementary level. Many schools have implemented STEM programs from the elementary level. Besides the usual classroom experiments, students also have to study from their textbooks. WANT TO KNOW HOW KITABOO WORKS?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. Haw River Elementary School decided to add after-school clubs, eliminate some teacher assistant positions, add more teachers, and reduce class sizes.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 21, 2021

Many of these tools also offer follow-up exercises and activities that target students' specific areas of need. Grades 2-12: This site, developed by the University of Texas at Austin, has CCSS-aligned downloadable performance tasks for elementary through high school including rubrics and student work samples. Knowledgehook.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Here are six pertinent and powerful reasons to use apps with young children: 1.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Here are six pertinent and powerful reasons to use apps with young children: 1.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Either way, teaching your kids at home definitely causes a little anxiety in parents who haven’t had to be a part of a classroom in many, many years. Side note: Our advice is mostly tailored for parents of younger kids who are recreating a classroom and the full school day at home. You never signed up for this. It makes sense.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Here are six pertinent and powerful reasons to use apps with young children: 1.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. We have successfully employed many of the best techniques and strategies for developing valuable school and classroom apps. Here are six pertinent and powerful reasons to use apps with young children: 1.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. There’s so much to do as a classroom teacher, and if your comfort level with technology isn’t there, you’re going to say ‘forget it,’” Epps says. Staff needed time to get comfortable with it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2015

Coding has become the poster child for a tech-infused classroom. a series of symbols, used synonymously as text and grouped to imply or prompt the multimedia in the games and programs that happen on computers, websites, and mobile apps. The free version has a limited number of exercises. So what is ‘coding’?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Her temperature is taken when she arrives, and then she heads to her classroom. In the spring, the district deployed mobile hotspots to help bridge the gap, but more recently, “internet outages because of the hurricanes have made data collection difficult,” she said. This story also appeared in Southerly.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions. Furthermore, ABCMouse will be offered at no cost to teachers for use in their classrooms, allowing them to take full advantage of many of these offerings. The system allows any organization to deliver live 360 4K video to viewers on computers and mobile devices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The reason is that when you come to school and your language skills aren’t as good, a lot of what the teacher says—and 80 percent of classroom instruction in elementary school is a teacher talking and students listening—is going to go right over your head.”. That’s where Weil’s company comes in.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test. Her work in 60,000 classrooms across 100 countries has rallied more than a million children who have banded together to launch 170 social enterprises and pass 17 laws. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Fortunately, Google for EDU listened intently to teacher needs and designed Google Classroom to do just that. Google Classroom makes teaching more efficient and meaningful by giving educators a hub for student assignments, boosting student collaboration, and fostering communication. Signing into Classroom. Create a Class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you are always digging out — like you said, new people that everybody hasn’t heard of — but you’re always digging out new amazing educators who are just doing great work every single day in their classrooms. Bring these remarkable experiences to your classroom! Lucy: Yes, we are. People Met Here and Become Partners.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Many schools have reduced or even eliminated recess for elementary school children, and several have cut back on free play and play-based learning in the early grades such as kindergarten and first grade (Zygmunt-Fillwalk & Bilello, 2005). Unfortunately, time for free play within school hours has also declined.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Well, the first thing to keep in mind is… I love doing this exercise during a presentation… I ask people to just raise their hands if they feel like they’re behind the technology curve. Dembo was also a featured panelist at Nokia Open Labs as an expert on mobile device integration in education. Inspiration for Overwhelmed Teachers.

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MindShift

AUGUST 20, 2019

Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify. Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify. “He was kinda my safe space. The course is broken down into sections.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

Thursday, May 22nd at 11am Fifth Graders Meet Author Grace Lin , During the winter/spring of 2014, fifth graders at three elementary schools in Illinois and Massachusetts read the novel by Grace Lin entitled Where the Mountain Meets the Moon ( [link] and participated in online discussions about the book using Edmodo. New Classroom 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

So maybe Dylann’s family is a good example of downward social mobility,” the teacher added. I recently heard about an encouraging exercise an elementary school teacher started doing after the Columbine murders. The teacher likened him to working-class Bostonians who felt inferior to the Cambridge-bred upper classes. “So

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A whiteboard in a classroom. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Berta Romero is a counselor for English learners in Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Adelphi. We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The exercise was supposed to represent how easily they could become infected with an STI. Its staff brought a mobile ultrasound unit and a volunteer pregnant woman to a school to perform a live ultrasound in front of students. In 2020, The Open Door, a crisis pregnancy center in Cisco and Breckenridge, tried something new.

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