eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Social Institute , whose mission is to empower millions of students to navigate their social world — including social media and technology — in positive, healthy, and high-character ways, released its 2024 Student Insights Report: How Social Media, Tech, and Current Events Impact Student Well-Being.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

When we can take risks by either trying something new or using digital tools for game-based and collaborative learning, we will see students engage more with the content. Additionally, it is important that we ask for their feedback so we can continue to provide the best learning opportunities for them.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Teachers were grasping at anything that could fulfill the “obligation” of using technology.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Technology impacts every aspect of our students’ lives and will continue to play an important role in their lives. Teachers who integrate technology effectively help their students realize the potential we have to transform the world with our use of technology. Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Whether online or face-to-face, teachers are always looking for ways to create engaging learning experiences. Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. Read more: Meeting the needs of Gen Z students with visual learning.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

I love educational technology. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

Social studies education serves as the cornerstone for cultivating informed and engaged citizens capable of understanding the complexities of the world around them. With the rapid advancement of technology, digital tools have emerged as powerful assets in achieving this goal.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Peace Corps : while you don’t have to volunteer as a teacher in another country, Peace Corps volunteers have a lot of experience in cross-cultural collaboration — and they are sharing it with all teachers. Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

The institutional learning management system affords a safe and reliable albeit often less than inspiring space for learning. New digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies support connected and collaborative pedagogies. Digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0

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Kitaboo on EdTech

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

By incorporating technology into K-12 education model, institutes are aiming to improve the teaching and learning processes in schools and universities. That is how technological innovations made their way into classrooms; to help students develop a deeper understanding of subjects and improve the learning experience.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

CIPA also requires schools to monitor student online activity and provide training for responsible technology use. Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

’ You might even understand the purpose of a PLN–to provide educators with a collaborative learning environment–but think you don’t need one, or staff development provided by your school is all you can handle. The engine of a PLN is social media. refer to it in your social media.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2023

STEM Forward with Olympic Swimmer Katie Ledecky : Join Katie Ledecky, 3-time Olympian, 7-time Olympic Gold medal swimmer, proud STEM advocate and Team Panasonic athlete, for an immersive deep dive into game-changing technology that powers society and enhances our lives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. Today, the LMS is a technological staple for all courses across higher ed, whether online or traditional brick-and-mortar institutions. Learning is the product of inputs from students and instructors.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

A teacher has to teach over 20 students with different learning styles, skills and priorities, which is a challenging task, especially when the classroom time is limited. Remember to start small, try one blended learning model, one technology tool at a time, analyze the mistakes you have made and then move forward.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you know what is usually missing from the Dreaded Collaboration Project? Usually many things, but one main thing is the lack of collaborative technology that is not shown in any TV show. Read on to find out how to create a collaborative learning space using an LMS. Use team assignments. Shared resources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here’s what we learned. Zoom is hiring folks with years of experience in education technology. I love being able to see how technology is adopted in a way that has an impact on education.” Employees also scan social media to see what’s working well and not so well for schools and colleges. I like early market.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 4, 2019

I posed some questions for educators to address, and proposed that much of our technology in recent years has been used to connect and to communicate. From the telegraph, through the telephone and radio and television, to 21st Century satellites, smartphones, the Internet and social media, all were designed to communicate.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 24, 2016

Thousands of new education technology platforms have emerged in the past decade. As education technology continues to grow, it is important to identify services with purpose and meaning. Technology that makes a difference in the world is the focus and mission of EdCast. We lead the way in Social Collaborative Learning (SCL).

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2010

The construction of a PLN enables educators to harness the power inherent in 21st Century technologies in order to create a professional growth tool that is accessible whenever, wherever. Image Credit [link] Most educators I talk to have no idea where to begin when attempting to create a PLN that meets their teaching and learning needs.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 25, 2023

In today’s modern environment, educators have their work cut out for them, from staying on top of adaptive learning technologies to navigating new student requirements. What role might broader economic, cultural, and technological forces play? But one of the most crucial concerns for today’s educators is student engagement.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The big question that educators often ponder seems to be: In this age of technology and innovation does technology improve student learning? I think however that there are other questions, which must be answered in order to gauge the effects of technology our education system. Communication has been upended by technology.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

The post Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators – SULS0160 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey chats with Dr. Monica Alicea, a Technology Training and Integration Specialist, about strategies and tools to engage students. Returning to the Classroom with Technology. Click To Tweet.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 2, 2015

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog Over the next few years, schools will increasingly count on technology to try to spark student creativity, independent learning, and innovation, rather using digital tools in passive, rote ways, a new report predicts.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 6, 2015

Creative Commons license image source There are Many Reasons Why Flexible, Active Learning Classrooms Should be Widely Adopted We’ve converted a few classrooms to more collaborative spaces over the. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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My Island View

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

If there is one thing that I am sure of as an educator it is that rapid change greatly affects both what and how we learn. If there is a second thing that I am sure of as an educator it is that the evolution of technology is the driver of rapid change throughout our culture. Today’s students have grown up immersed in technology.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 13, 2018

"A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency , such as friendship , kinship , common interest, financial exchange, dislike, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

MIT Step Labs introduced their new virtual reality learning projects through CLEVR : Collaborative Learning Environments in Virtual Reality. Liv and her mother shared their personal experiences and journey through harnessing the power of social media for empowering students to claim and share their stories.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Today's students are using technology to collaborate, learn, research, and communicate while at school. Blended and personalized learning with digital tools has flooded classrooms, but most teacher-prep programs do not incorporate digital citizenship as requirements for teacher certification.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

Technology has brought about various changes in the way education is delivered and received. From self-learning to flipped classroom approach, we have seen technology make a considerable impact on the learning and teaching methodologies. Let us have a look at the current trends in education technology: 1.

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My Island View

JULY 14, 2015

Of course collaboration on a greater scale would take both time and money, and that has rarely been a priority in most schools. Collaborative learning has always been with us from the beginning of learning, however, it required that the learners occupied the same space at the same time. It’s collaborative learning.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

How many schools are helping to support kids with social media strategy? You don't need a college degree to operate a drone, run a social media strategy or even vlog. What a fun way to give students the ability to learn how to collaborate! Learn more about BreakoutEDU and how to get started here.

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My Island View

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Social media as a source of professional development has yet to catch on in large numbers among educators. There is however a growing number of educators using Twitter who look for strategies to better serve them in social media for collaborative learning. I personally like to give reasons to follow folks.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. Finally, it's highly appropriate that content within social media remains work in progress, because it reflects the fact that learning is never ending. Wheeler, S.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

has announced two new education solutions to enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum, and create more collaborative learning spaces. A social media campaign, Students Stand #withMalala, is making 20,000 DVDs of He Named Me Malala available for free to teachers across the U.S.

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My Island View

JANUARY 26, 2015

Committing to working technology into the infrastructure will have little effect if the educators are not willing to embrace the teaching and learning that must go along with that. We can’t cram 21 st Century learning into a 20 th Century model of teaching because it is more comfortable for our educators.

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My Island View

JULY 5, 2017

In September of 2014 I wrote, Educating Parents About Education , a post supporting the idea that we need to better educate parents about education in order to have them engaged as advocates and not adversaries for much of the needed changes in education in regard to methodology, pedagogy and technology.

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