Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

With the click of a mouse and without leaving the classroom, they can access the collective knowledge of all mankind via the Internet. Students who use technology in the classroom perform better, and emerge from their educations better prepared for the challenges of adult life. Higher Education Has Changed, Too.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The edtech industry as a whole has a problem: the successful adoption of technology in the classroom. That in itself is a good thing, but why wait until they step inside a classroom for the first time? Demand for K-12 teachers, as well as High School and secondary teachers in the U.S. But what does it all mean?

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) classroom setups are very common nowadays, but there are a few aspects to consider before implementing them. I’d like to address here internet-readiness because for BYOD classrooms to be sustainable, schools must have a reliable internet source. Today is different.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

To get started, educators need a teacher tablet; virtual reality viewers; student devices; and a peer-to-peer enabled wi-fi network, hotspot, or closed network, said Julie Brem, a librarian at Colleyville Heritage High School in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You can create original teaching materials for the math classroom quickly and easily. ClassPad can be accessed from tablets and computers. How to integrate ClassPad into your classroom: ClassPad is a fantastic tool for the mathematics and science classroom. Students can access your materials through a unique URL.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

After all, textbooks are a must in classrooms. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. Use Open Source eBooks.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

Today’s most popular augmented and virtual reality applications are typically available for mobile devices, but many classrooms have moved from tablets to Chromebooks, especially at the secondary level. Add different components that suit the needs of the classroom. Apply for a free account at gometa.io

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Notion is a great tool for teachers and secondary students. However, there is great potential for secondary students to utilize this platform. The Classroom Home template is set up to include introductory information about the teacher and course at the top. It even shows a section for classroom announcements.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided. Go to everfi.com/coolcat to sign up for these early literacy lessons perfect for K to 2 classrooms everywhere. A lot of what I see is for secondary school.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Using wireless presentation tools by Vivi , an education-focused company founded in Australia, Gunn was able to mirror her tablet screen on the classroom screen and play YouTube clips directly through a hardwired receiver without slowing down the school’s wifi—or her students’ work. Laurence had recently installed.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 1, 2020

Collegeboard is leveraging various digital platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and AP Classroom to keep students engaged in relevant material from a distance. Additionally, they are working on a free response question integration with Google Classroom to support remote learning. image courtesy of The College Board).

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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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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Secondary students in particular need to be able to see and ask questions during laboratory experiments, or receive feedback when developing their own solutions to math problems. For Kim, a Friday the 13 th in March was the day when she and her students learned they would not be returning to the classroom. Math Made Meaningful.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

You can create original teaching materials for the math classroom quickly and easily. ClassPad can be accessed from tablets and computers. How to integrate ClassPad into your classroom: ClassPad is a fantastic tool for the mathematics and science classroom. Students can access your materials through a unique URL.

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Digital Promise

MAY 1, 2017

In the Classroom. Studies have reported increased student motivation , improved collaboration and knowledge construction and enhanced classroom practices. The potential of this form of educational technology is beginning to be realised not only in tertiary settings but also in secondary schools.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But even after decades of use, graphing technology of any sort in the classroom still sparks debate. As mathematics educators, we think the graphing calculator transformed American classrooms for the better. Understanding Math. We agree with many of the points in favor of the new apps. Read the original article.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

It’s one of several initiatives that promise to make AI as common in the classroom as it’s becoming in our lives. elementary and secondary schools teach the subject, maybe because there are so few curricula available for students. Artificial intelligence powers Amazon’s recommendations engine, Google Translate and Siri, for example.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S.

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MindSpark

MAY 26, 2022

In 2019, we began partnering with The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow (SSFT) program which is a STEM competition that challenges secondary school students to solve community problems using STEM. She was part of our Teacher Academy and took her knowledge around e-waste back to her classroom and her dinner table. ReGame Inc.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. Toward the end of his secondary school experience, though, he shifted to “healing in the broader sense,” reading more deeply in the humanities. that we have to have a SMART board in every classroom. That has all changed today.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

million contribution to the Bartlesville Public School District to build Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) labs at Bartlesville’s three secondary schools. This gave school planners the opportunity to develop space beyond traditional classroom settings to enhance STEM education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid.

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edWeb.net

JULY 10, 2018

Kimber has been a classroom teacher, technology resource teacher, and is now the instructional technology coach for secondary schools for the School District of Pickens County. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. She earned a B.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

They’re used to charge, secure, store, and distribute tablets, laptops, and mobile devices—and in schools that aren’t using one-to-one take-home initiatives, they’ve become a mainstay. Carts, those waist-high metal cabinets on wheels, often hold dozens of devices, perfect for classrooms that need technology on the go.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Photo: James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Founded in 2012, Nearpod initially launched its “interactive lecture” platform for iPads, at a time when many schools and districts swooned over the tablets. When a kid is engaged, discipline becomes a secondary problem.” A teacher’s world is focused on a classroom of students, which is complex enough of a problem.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach? So what does this mean?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Their mission was to use tablets to give every preschool student the skills needed to be successful in reading. “We Schools across the country are collaborating to implement successful educational technology projects that elevate the classroom experience,” Patnoudes said. “We The entries we received surpassed expectations.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

Robust Networking and Data Center Solutions Power Tech Tools in the Classroom. But over time, the environment became unmanageable, with an aging hodgepodge of resources that threatened to hamper classroom-focused IT programs like the one-to-one initiative. Data Center Upgrades Power Up Classroom Connections. meghan.bogardu….

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 17, 2014

Advocates of more student centered education argue the lecture represents the factory style education promoted in the 1950''s to serve the largely blue collar constituency that would inevitably attend some elementary and perhaps even a little secondary education and quickly move to the factory or farm. I do it in addition.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Our objective for this technological transformation of the school desk was to ensure that the classroom would remain physically unchanged, but changed utterly in terms of new pedagogical and interaction affordances. The Need for Autonomous Assessment.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

In addition to the familiar student teaching routine, for instance, it uses virtual reality avatars to simulate classroom situations and crises. This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We Some weren’t aware their kids could get a free device or, if they had a device, didn’t understand how to log on to Google Classroom or use Zoom. for only a few weeks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Curating the Best Content for Learning , Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. There’s a lot of great games, apps, websites, and digital curricula to go along with tablets and computers. Classroom 2.0 But what about content?

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Another aspect is the gradual disintegration of computing , as we move from desktops to laptops to tablets, phones, cameras, trackers, and gewgaws attached to various locations in our spaces and on our bodies. Even academics.

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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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