EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

As the number of English language learners in today’s classrooms continues to grow, educators must consider new ways to facilitate their learning. Yet some schools across the country still struggle to support ELL students and address their specific learning needs. public schools.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In order to do that, we need to ensure that students regularly operate at the deepest levels of learning: analyzing, breaking things down, making connections, evaluating different situations, etc. Deep learning constitutes the three top levels of Bloom’s taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Integrating technology into your classroom can be overwhelming at first—especially navigating the different resources and district technology support staff that are available to you. Often, teachers in these positions are approached with more troubleshooting issues in lieu of instructional technology integration advice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2020

Last year, our county implemented an Advanced Learning for All initiative to increase students’ readiness and overall preparation for life after they receive their high school diploma. Related content: How next-gen learning supports every student. Technology has helped us to remain one step ahead of the class.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.”

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2019

Technology Makes or Breaks Esports Programs. Esports Equipment Can Support Other School Initiatives. In competitive gaming, milliseconds matter , and the technology supporting students can make or break an esports venture. DOWNLOAD: Get CDW’s white paper “A Modern Learning Environment.”. amy.burroughs_26341.

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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. Legends of Learning has an amazing game based science experiences for students in 3-8 aligning with Next Generation Science and select state standards. Is technology a distraction? Listen Now.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

At the same time, innovative education leaders and classroom teachers are engaging, motivating, and nurturing students to develop mindsets for college and career readiness and lifelong learning, and they are supporting social and emotional development. And, they must be informed citizens in our democracy.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

This post will outline the aims of the PYP (the Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate) and the role that technology plays in helping teachers and students to achieve those goals. What does the PYP say about technology? Can provide access to a broad range of tools to store, organize and present their learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

. — BenQ, an internationally renowned provider of visual display and collaboration solutions, today announced the Spring Independent School District (ISD) in Houston has selected and installed almost 1,800 BenQ Boards in K-12 classrooms across the 45 schools in the district. The teacher-friendly experience starts immediately at sign-in.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”. Simply adding technology to a classroom doesn’t make it an innovative space. Leaders looking to shift learning must think more holistically. Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray share their expertise on modern learning spaces. meghan.bogardu….

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. We are passionate about creating equitable learning and building research-practice partnerships.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 14, 2019

A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. Reuben Puentedura, founder of the consulting firm Hippasus, and it presents a choice of four levels of technology integration.

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Edthena

JUNE 3, 2022

That’s the reason why teacher self-reflection is included in most schools’ professional learning standards and rubrics. Luckily, technology can make the self-reflection process easier for teachers to effectively improve their teaching practices. Technology such as AI Coach by Edthena can serve as a teacher self-reflection tool.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If newer technologies can foster creativity in students then educators must seriously think about how they can incorporate them into their classroom teaching strategies. Creativity and the classroom. Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

However, lifelong learning is a must for all of us, not just the kids we serve. It can also occur when we experience any exponential change, as we see with advances in technology. Disruption affords all of us the opportunity to take calculated risks in an effort to create a better way to teach, learn and lead.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., Ballard understands that better than most.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 18, 2019

As educators, we innately know that our students bring different learner profiles to our classrooms. It focuses on utilizing teaching strategies that provide students with multiple options for taking in and processing information, making sense of ideas, and then expressing their learning. UDL Framework from CAST.

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Vizor

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. Therefore, in this blog, we are going to review 5 technology workflows your school needs before getting Chromebooks. That’s where this technology workflow comes in.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2020

Image from pxfuel I'm pleased to announce the launch of module number 4 in my Digital Learning series on the new ZilLearn platform. I designed the series with teachers in mind, especially those who have been compelled by the recent crisis to migrate all of their teaching to online and technology supported education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Students would laugh as the teachers mumbled about the annoyances of technology. Now think about how far the classroom has come since then–schools stocked with iPads and tablets, interactive touchscreens, and even virtual reality headsets. Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the shift to technology adoption in schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration? The technology was supposed to let teachers share their screens without being tethered to a desk.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Some traditional educators may still view student access to technology as a privilege, but it is not. Today, technology is necessary for learning to be accessible, real, and relevant in the modern world. The college, careers, and citizenship for which our students need to be prepared require the use of technology.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district–one of the largest in the United States–are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. So have students learned more?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Context matters, especially when it comes to classroom learning. Digital media and technology are increasingly a part of our lives, but it's important that we're conscious of the media choices we're making. There's no one formula that's right for every classroom. Using Digital Media in Your Teaching.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Despite the dramatic impact technology has had on education, many classroom structures and teaching methods haven’t changed much over the years. The SCALE-UP classroom is one example of these dramatic shifts. SCALE-UP is turning many aspects of the traditional classroom upside-down, including how technology is used.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Guest speakers from around the world enter classrooms through a screen. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . Digital Equity.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

When technology fails in the classroom, it takes away from valuable instructional time and hinders student learning. Lincoln and Nancy Greene, a technology support specialist in the district, discussed Chula Vista’s journey in a session at the Spring CUE 2018 conference. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 03/16/2018 - 11:50.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning. Transitioning to a personalized learning environment doesn’t happen overnight—it’s a process.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

I asked Isabelle Hau, the executive director of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, to share about the potential benefits and challenges of AI in early learning. Have you noticed that trend in early childhood classrooms — are teachers interested in using AI or teaching about it? Hau: I’m observing some activity in a few areas.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

ATLANTA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Incident IQ, the workflow management platform built for school districts, released an integration with ClassLink—a global education provider of access and analytics products that create more time for learning and help schools better understand digital engagement. Visit classlink.com to learn more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Quality Is Key Educators seek engaging, hands-on, interactive content that allows students to participate fully and think critically throughout the learning process. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning.

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