21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 16, 2019

I will be at Alan November’s BLC19 in Boston (July) presenting workshops and sessions to support educators and students. Checkout my conference half day workshops : Making Makers Mainstream and Project Based Learning Quick Start. Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Have a great week!

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

How much time should a student engage with learning daily? From Xbox live to Snapchat to Marco Polo — students are often alone physically and online continually. “Student engagement” has been a top conference topic for nearly ten years now for a reason. – in class. They are alone together.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And AI-powered education platforms can help to improve student engagement with global culture and history. They focused on customer discovery and market validation for concepts leveraging virtual, augmented and mixed reality, voice technology, robotics, and other future interfaces.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2018

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Students design a device that can shoot a basketball free-throw shot accurately every time. Mike Gorman ( 21centuryedtech ).

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our high schoolers are creating collaborative charts in history classes, our middle schoolers are doing flipped learning in math which allows more time for group activities, and our elementary students are working on collaborative projects using Seesaw. I often present at conferences on why coding should be a part of every class.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 21, 2017

Makerspaces play a great host to events such as parent coffee mornings, student conferences, parent teacher meetings, parent workshops and professional development session for educators. Finally, which ways to keep student engagement ongoing? Student engagement is an ongoing process.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

With student engagement and voice on the rise, I caught the technology bug and dove deeper. The next huge success with the 1:1 iPad rollout came with a new little, ball-shaped robot. That year our local environmental group bought my Environmental Club a Sphero robot. That year we tried the Hour of Code.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2017

At education conferences in particular, teachers are constantly distracted by flashy booths, expensive giveaways, superhero characters, and other marketing gimmicks. At the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference this year, there was a lot of fanfare, and some really great products. Take a look at Spiral.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

The grassroots community has garnered much attention in K-12 spaces, but many of today’s college students also exude a mindset that emphasizes practice over theory. Whether it’s labeled a multimedia lab, a student resource center or a makerspace, the idea of the modern library is now more dynamic than ever.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

Students use iMacs in three digital arts labs to do sound engineering, digital animation, television production, yearbook and photography. They use video conferences to understand how to help people in Uganda with AIDS awareness. Mosyle allowed our teachers to better focus on student engagement.

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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

All entries to the 2018 School Librarian of the Year Awards were judged based on criteria including creativity in programming and use of content; demonstrated student engagement; outreach to families; and exemplary use of technology tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Shelley Songy ( @TheSTEMgeek ) teaches Exploring Computer Science at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, MS and coaches the school's SeaPerch Underwater Robotics team. She is a regular presenter at state and national educational technology conferences.

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Philly Teacher

JUNE 25, 2013

With all of that said, I did find that there was also a missing element to this year’s conference. The students engaging in these kinds of experiences are walking out of high school as mature, independent and employed young adults. This, to me, is what we need more of in EdTech.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

At a long, markerboard-surfaced table in the room’s center, a group of students builds robots from Cubelets, box-shaped elements that use sensors to perform different functions. These students belong to one of Anthony Donahoo’s Environmental and Spatial Technology classes at Creston Community Schools. Finding what works.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. Fortunately, we’ve found that participation in robotics competitions can boost confidence.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

And how about this scenario for major writing assignments: students get assigned an essay to write that connects to the novel studied in class. Students engage in writing workshops, do some peer review, have mini-conferences with the teacher, write a draft, revise the draft, and hand it in. Who am I fooling?!?!?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Master Educators use LEGO Education solutions in their classrooms and embody the LEGO Education mission of enabling success for all students through hands-on learning experiences. New Flipgrid updates will launch and be livestreamed from Minneapolis on August 1 at Flipgrid’s annual educator conference, #FlipgridLIVE.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 11, 2024

Joining professional organizations and attending education conferences can also be a good way to make connections and find potential clients. Moreover, they are used to varying their tone and pace to keep students engaged, which can also be beneficial in voiceover roles.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

Don''t just be a robot following commands. Dragonsong is read primarily out of class and students engage in cooperative critical thinking activities in class. In addition to taking a teacher generated test, my students use their critical thinking skills for the Multiple Choice Peer Assessment.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The list is drawn in part from work presented recently at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, held here. They found that it can work–“for some students, in some ways, at some times.” The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 13, 2021

She is passionate about using technology to allow for choice, enhance student engagement, and provide opportunities for creation and collaboration. Seesaw, a digital tool that helps students demonstrate and share their learning, is one of the tools Sarah regularly shares with the educators in her district. An Introduction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We are trying to be the first company to quantify this invisible metric” of student engagement, says Newlon. Teachers have an innate ability to know when their students are engaged, but we want to give them a superpower so they can track and quantify that over time.” Was it ever actually reading the brainwaves at all?”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Wednesday, November 16th, is the final day of our the seventh annual Global Education Conference. It's been an amazing conference, hope you can join us for some of the final keynotes or sessions! IMPORTANT NOTES: Simple instructions on joining the conference for newcomers: [link]. Want to volunteer to help moderate sessions?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Your prep: Provide access to classroom Smartscreen so sub can draw and label the digital student. Students engage in a gameshow-style competition to assess student knowledge on a specific or general topic. Pass out copies of common problems your student group faces. Substitute teacher knowledge: no tech knowledge.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. They are listed below, and after the reminder plea for moderator volunteers, you''ll also find the current list of all conference sessions. Huge thanks!

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Integrating technology does not automatically improve student engagement or learning. ?MYTH MYTH #2: Lessons should be as creative and fun as possible to increase engagement. TRUTHS: Engaging kids is different from ensuring they’re having fun. I know for me as a learner, I actually really like direct instruction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A student can dream up a memory, place, or activity that represents joy or peace and create a unique breathing bubble customized to them. This ability to personalize each exercise improved student engagement. The idea that a robot can replace teachers is laughable. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

.” Via Education Dive : “ The Iron Yard and Code Fellows , have partnered with nonprofit financial literacy organization Operation HOPE to create a $100 million scholarship fund to spur minority and low-income student engagement in tech fields.” Meanwhile on Campus. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Conferences as a Way of Fighting Travel Ban.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “student engagement” platform has raised $4.12 .” Via The New York Times : “After Visa Ban , Hints of Hidden Tension on Mississippi Campus.” ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” That’s Jeff Sessions , Trump’s pick for Attorney General who tried in 1996 to prevent the Southeastern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual College Conference from holding its conference at the University of Alabama. “Obama Administration Mistakes Threaten Student Loan Relief Programs,” Buzzfeed reports. .”

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