Remove Course Remove Google Remove Seminar Remove Software
article thumbnail

Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. That choice has gotten both easier and more complicated (and challenging) in recent years.

EdTech 118
article thumbnail

4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

Based on what they told us, we deployed a new firewall, upgraded all the software applications in our system and set up the system so it would notify us of any suspicious traffic. Of course, users must have a phone that’s also locked down, but the consultant the district hires can educate users on how to use these two-factor systems safely.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

The Hechinger Report

The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most. Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report In Oxnard, educators say they have been left in the dark about how these decisions affect course offerings for their students.

Data 137
article thumbnail

Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool.’

iPad 125
article thumbnail

Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. This was the topic for one week in my course. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

Video 147
article thumbnail

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

In this series I will provide thoughts and free resources to help you make Blended and eLearning with of course face to face a PBL possibility. For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. What network did you use to connect from?

article thumbnail

Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Online courses, including certificates and degree programs, make it easy to learn on any schedule. Take a degree course.