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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In our first installment of this podcast series last month, I shared the scene from a digital media course where I saw students watching sports highlights on YouTube during a lecture, shopping for beds on Facebook marketplace and playing video games on their iPhones as the professor did his thing on stage.

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Lexia Reading Core5 App to Integrate with Apple?s Schoolwork App

techlearning

“Lexia is dedicated to improving student learning through the use of technology,” saidLexia President Nick Gaehde. “By By integrating into Schoolwork, we have another opportunity todeliver exceptional personalized learning to students in need of further developing their fundamental literacy skills.”

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Best Math Apps For Kids

Fractus Learning

Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. Students will not get bored with multiple games, themes, and over 350 math skills to be learned. Become a master investor by learning, practicing, and applying key Algebra concepts.

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Oculus Go: First Impressions

techlearning

There are so many education technology companies that have dipped there toes into the VR pool, and there are so many startups that are trying to gain a foothold in schools. Just last year at ISTE, I saw Google add to Expeditions, companies that let students create VR, and companies that give students an all in one headset.

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Output or compliance?

The Principal of Change

The basic premise (I suggest you read the whole article ) is that a 17 year old working at BlackBoard (a technology company), is ridiculed for using their phone during a meeting by some older adults, because it looks like he is texting, while he is actually taking notes. My iPhone is a computer, and it’s natural to take notes on it.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. They are moving more and more into the mobile market and now you can do video calls on the iPhone. Then the other kids in the class record their thoughts around the image. Need ideas?

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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

She hopes to one day own an iPhone 21, “with 21 cameras on it,” but for now she’s OK not having a phone at all. The coronavirus has affected the lives of these children since third grade – Prince William just returned to full-time, in-person learning this school year – but the fifth graders don’t like to imagine the pandemic in their future.

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