ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Why can’t classroom teachers integrate computer skills into their curriculum? The impact of mobile computing on education is indisputable. Full computer lab workstations deliver greater computing power and more screen space than mobile devices. Elementary school students have the least access to personal devices, at 71%.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor MAD-Learn - Mobile App Development MAD-Learn is a free, easy tool for students to use to build apps of their own in a private space for just you and your students. 00:02:37:02 – 00:03:05:18 Brian And for myself, this was something I saw as a classroom teacher. Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

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. IXL is great not just for school-based classrooms but homeschools and summer programs designed to keep students math-ready for their next grade level. Interactivate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There are valid reasons for using QR Codes in your classroom or as a teacher-author: High Capacity – they store a lot more data, allowing you to share real content and not just IDs or references. Some phones and mobile devices come with QR coders already installed. They are a great option in every classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When assessments are deployed well, she explained, they can be essential to preventing violence in schools and mobilizing resources for a struggling student. Critz Elementary insisted he go to a hospital or crisis center for a psychiatric evaluation; twice he was taken there by police. This is a kid that needed help,” Auerbach said.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces (2016) by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green Cross-posted from Learning Light Bulbs by Nate Gildart Get your own copy of Classroom Management in the Digital Age! The nature of classrooms has. My personal thoughts are in italics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They were referred to the Lourie Center in Rockville, Md., Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. He was also experiencing speech delays and was challenged in everyday communications. Lucas needed help. So did Maria and her husband.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

If you’re familiar with the SAMR Model, you know it refers to the way technology tools can be used to enrich classrooms. They can be shown in the classroom or assigned as homework though they include no tests or other assessments. Free, web-based and mobile. Let me put that in pedagogic terms. 3 Periodic Videos.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

Millions of students—particularly those from rural communities, low income families, immigrant families, and families of color—lack a reliable at-home internet connection, a critical need to continue their powerful learning outside of the classroom. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots. From left: 1.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Several virtual reality options are available for classrooms. The biggest reason, I think, it’s the tool to go to, is the ability for it to be in the cloud and accessible to a large number of students and to bring an unparalleled educational experience to them that you can’t re-create in the classroom. They were like in space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

It’s really for student engagement and other ideas that you can use in the classroom where students are able to answer questions and engage in class conversations via video. It could be Google Classroom, it could be Schoology, it could be Blackboard, it could also be Microsoft OneNote. TERYL: Vicki, Flipgrid is a newer tool.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A team of fifth grade teachers at an elementary school invited Muri, the superintendent of Ector County Independent School District in West Texas, to participate in an online scavenger hunt they had designed for students. The initiative addresses home connectivity inequalities, more commonly referred to as “the homework gap.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

To find out why read www.coolcatteacher.com/bloomz or go to bloomz.com to get started setting up your school or classroom now! I think we’ve been bitten with a passion to try to help teachers and make their classrooms more fun and engaging, and make their time more fun, so… thank you for what you do as well. Listen Now. Idea #1: Osmo.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

They boast three mobile VR labs and one stationary VR lab for the district’s four elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Gierasch references education reform authority Michael Fullan. Gierasch says she realizes some educators might feel VR is still too futuristic for their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While most schools across the country are fully back in person, students continue to struggle to complete homework assignments or participate in remote learning because they lack adequate internet service and access to a computer at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.” Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Karen Bosch explains why Merge Cubes are so hot, how they are being used in classrooms, and how she’s using them to build critical thinking and creativity in her school. When you scan the cube with your mobile device — it will work with an iPhone, an iPad, and it works with Android, but you have to have the Merge Cube app on it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

The contest promotes immersive technology and illustrates how impactful mixed reality can be in a classroom setting. When I’m teaching digital film this fall, I’ll have my students don mixed reality headsets to watch the shooting of Star Wars:The Last Jedi in 360 from the comfort of our classroom.

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MindShift

MAY 17, 2021

Courtney Miller’s son is in kindergarten at Glen Cove Elementary in Vallejo, California. In her virtual kindergarten classroom, Glick helped her students remember each letter by telling a story about how to write it. “‘B’ B’ is made with a dive-down letter. So you dive down,” Glick said as she deepened her voice.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

The saying, “If you build it, they will come” may have been referring to baseball stadiums, but it may also be the favorite mantra of makerspaces across the country. Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. MakerFaire.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A key finding from this work shows that mobilizing personal stories through a range of artistic and cultural expressions, outlets and collaborative networks can help individuals and groups process, heal from and speak back to these everyday experiences and their cumulative effects. References ¹ Pierce, C. Pierce-Gonzalez, D., &

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2016

This loss of academic skills over the summer months is what teachers refer to as "summer slide." Shadow Puppet Edu : Resource-rich video slide show creator a gem for elementary classrooms. MIT App Inventor : Fun programming site gets kids to build their own mobile apps.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2016

This loss of academic skills over the summer months is what teachers refer to as "summer slide." Shadow Puppet Edu : Resource-rich video slide show creator a gem for elementary classrooms. MIT App Inventor : Fun programming site gets kids to build their own mobile apps.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a settlement with the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, , the Stockton Unified School District in California agreed to protocols that require other interventions before referring students with disabilities for psychiatric evaluation. Educators stretched thin By law, certain classroom removals must be recorded.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

I personally understand the impact of what mobility can do socially and emotionally to children,” Bedell said. Researchers refer to those characteristics as “the housing bundle,” and each one impacts education, Gallagher said. When you have to constantly restart, it’s depressing. You have to constantly meet new students and teachers.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. is that of pedagogy: There is little doubt that the most dominant form of instruction in Europe and America is pedagogy, or what some people refer to as didactic, traditional, or teacher-directed approaches. I classify these technologies as worksheets on steroids.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Promoting collaboration across borders: two approaches - Anne Fox, Trainer, learning coach Service Learning for Highs School Students - Max Bone, Student Using international student art exchanges to deliver 21st Century Learning Skills - Cheryl Iozzo/ Greenwich Connecticut Public Schools/ Ed.D,

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techlearning

JUNE 18, 2018

This year I’ve had the chance to visit classrooms and work with teachers in different parts of the country. With Pre-K students, I recommend using Nearpod on a tablet within the native mobile app. A second-grade student who has used Nearpod in their classroom could absolutely help your class log in together and navigate the app.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

For a quick reference -- and for those of you #NotAtISTE who want to share in the learning -- here's a quick summary of our lightning sessions with links to the tools and resources each session covered. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids . But what games are good for classrooms?

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

In part four, Kasey explains how we can go BEYOND the walls of our classrooms, and how to go BEYOND the due date and encourage students to continue learning about the things that interest them. BONUS : Get the Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit to help you find the best tool to support Dynamic Learning in your classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The Starkville Foundation for Public Education, funded by donations from local residents, gave frequent grants to Starkville teachers to purchase new equipment and materials for their classrooms. Student enrollment within the classroom should mirror the racial make up of the overall district. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Today, I had 15 photos on my interactive display at the front of the classroom. In this post, I’ll be sharing seven pedagogical shifts that make interactive displays a key to a student-centered classroom. In my Computer Science classroom, students are collaborators and co-creators. SMART Technologies sponsored this post.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

We’ve discussed the merits and utility of video games in the classroom before, so we won’t beleaguer the point. We’ve discussed before the logistics of how to teach with video games (especially for non-mobile games). evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. Follow List.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Her work refers to the groundbreaking research by Hart and Risley in the mid-90s, who found that children living in poverty have been exposed to about 13 million words spoken in the home by their fourth birthday. “By We’re remedial rather than preventative. And that’s the larger issue.”. That’s where Weil’s company comes in.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. Referring to his students’ Detroit videos, he explained “They want to do it not to get the best grade but because they want to tell that person’s story. Supporters of EL like to say that the approach can work with any child.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As classroom teachers led classrooms through turn-key lessons and helped students apply what they learned to their goals and challenges, Jim took it even further by having assemblies to showcase the learnings happening in each classroom. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2018

For years I was trying to teach students in high school and I found that often students were struggling, like in many classrooms. When I started making math more visual, I was able to access all the learners in my classroom. So that’s really the push from this research and what I’m trying to do with my website and in my classroom.

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