EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Consider factors like faculty expertise, course structure, specialization options, and career support services. Ensure the program you select covers essential topics while providing opportunities to delve into areas of interest like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, or software development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Visit Website | Courses | Certification | Testimonials | Overview (PDF). Wonder Workshop. Wonder Workshop is a combined hardware/software solution especially designed for key elements of hands-on, sensory play and experimentation. Coding & Robotics Solutions (Grades K-12). Kano demystifies how technology works.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2024

But we don’t just implement the software; we provide advisory services around change management to help organizations reach their goals.” Another interesting approach is subscription-based tuition, which eliminates the cost per credit and allows students to take as many courses as desired over a set term.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

At the start of a virtual workshop last week, a teacher sent me a note in the chat saying that she wanted to quit. Additionally, teachers can send students away from the playlist for personalized practice using adaptive software. Check out my self-paced online course. She was frustrated and exhausted.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

An important part of professional development is through hands-on training on hardware and software tools. Although professional development usually refers to classes, seminars and/or workshops, it also can include conferences, taking online courses, and independent study, among others. .

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Examples include creating complex passwords, ensuring software is regularly updated, participating in phishing awareness training, and implementing multifactor authentication (MFA). To ensure cybersecurity culture is reinforced and part of the curriculum, schools can make sure this is covered in teacher workshop days.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 16, 2016

I agree with the general direction of moving away from “clickers” that need dedicated hardware and instead using software that allows students to use their own mobile devices (phones, tablets, laptops) to respond. However, I use polling often in my classes and workshops I give to faculty, and I prefer NearPod. Socrative).

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Hubbli

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Technological Integration The pandemic served as a crash course in technological literacy for both educators and students. The newfound familiarity with digital tools should be maintained and integrated further into the curriculum, whether it’s software for collaborative projects or platforms for virtual field trips.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

Each elementary school in the district has a makerspace within its resource center (and the fifth-to-eighth grade students have access through a related studies course), where all the robotics activities are happening. Then we enrolled students in courses on the website. We are in our third year where we have total participation.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Visit Website | Courses | Certification | Testimonials | Overview (PDF). Wonder Workshop. Wonder Workshop is a combined hardware/software solution especially designed for key elements of hands-on, sensory play and experimentation. Coding & Robotics Solutions (Grades K-12). Kano demystifies how technology works.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Students across the country have pushed back against the use of test proctoring software, citing the mental toll of constant monitoring and concerns over privacy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

The organization, which is also run by a team of students, offers free workshops that teach 3D printing, robotics, graphic design, and coding to students as well as programs to help bring 3D printing into schools. Prabu and Raikanti are currently juniors at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif.,

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2018

Code.org is working with partners across the United States to bring one-day workshops to K-5 teachers. They also have some one-week workshops for middle and high schools educators. These workshops are followed up with five daylong events throughout the school year, but teachers must apply to take part.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company announced today it is making a commitment to do the following: Invest at least $10 million in new scholarships for Black students to attend K12-powered private schools, which includes three private K-12 institutions and the award-winning Galvanize programs in data science and software engineering.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 15, 2016

The only training or workshops I attended were those I got a grant for, applying on my own. At ISTE, I attended a Software & Information Industry Association breakfast focused on PD. ASCD offers online PD courses, and so does EdTech Leaders Online. Of course, the established publishers all offer online PD.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 14, 2023

Whether a child aspires to be a software engineer or a scientist, coding will likely be a critical part of their professional life. Online coding courses: Several websites offer online courses that introduce kids to different coding languages. Encourages Persistence: Learning to code also teaches resilience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In the months since launching our school and district pilot program , the Kiddom team has collectively spent thousands of hours meeting with administrators to better understand their workflows, facilitate contextualized staff workshops, and support ongoing partnerships.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Hi Folks, Just want to spread the word that I am again teaching the course "Tech Links to Language Interventions" through EDCO Greater Boston Collaborative this October. This is a hybrid class with one face-to-face workshop day on October 11 in Waltham and a month of follow up activities online (totaling 2 days time, all said).

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 30, 2020

Students exposed to coding and programming at an early age are well equipped to take on higher-level computer science courses in high school and have essential skills for future opportunities in the technology world. Science courses are not the only way to connect students to coding. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2021

And there’s a new focus on supporting better teaching practices around using Scratch rather than just doing software updates. (A Of course, there are always going to be some kids who push the boundaries and go making a mean comment to someone else. A new refresh of the Scratch system had just been released in January 2019.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Elementary schools, high schools, universities and even vocational training courses are ideal places to incorporate 3D printing as part of the curriculum. . From desktop printers to professional online services using high-grade printers, 3D technology is becoming a valuable creative tool in many courses of study beyond 3D computer design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. Vicki: What do you think about this statement, agree or disagree: “The greatest software for innovation in the world is the human brain.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

And in at least one case, the rise of the scanner has created an opportunity for an academic library to engage in a little community-minded entrepreneurship, providing fellow libraries with a customized computer/scanner/software bundle that won’t break the bank. I’m sure it’s every bit as effective to use software to annotate on a screen.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Department of Education Office for Civil Rights focus on the extent to which students, faculty and others can make full use of a college’s websites, education software and social media channels. Many of this year’s complaints filed with the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. Do they have access to the software they need? However, that is obviously very costly.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 17, 2014

Way back in 1996, a small company, Forefront, contacted me and traded their new software, WebWhacker 1.0, It was the neatest piece of software. To put things in perspective, this software was for Windows 3.1 I would bring the "WebWhacked" sites on a diskette since, of course, we were all working on desktops. and Mac OS 7.x

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2020

guiding the pathway to mastery of key skills in a fashion that provides a course to something greater. The toolkit includes training and workshop options to best prepare staff for the upcoming semester. At eLumen, our focus is to help institutions facilitate student achievement that is foundational?guiding Accreditation and Compliance?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

And then in high school, the same thing: joining the medical clubs, taking all the courses that would align me [with medicine], volunteering at hospitals, then going to medical school. What would also happen is that say, for example, the workshop was on a Saturday. That’s sort of how I had it mapped out.

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ProfHacker

MAY 29, 2018

Thus it felt only appropriate when I spent most of the first day of conferencing at an interactive fiction roundtable, the result of two merged workshops: one on Twine (proposed by myself, Eric Murnane, and Laura Okkema) and one on interactive fiction in the classroom (proposed by Daniel Frank, Christopher Wyatt, Lauren Woolbright, and Daniel Cox).

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

It's not the first place you expect to find a pioneer education program, but the Young Women’s Leadership Academy is one of the city’s first public schools to have a full computer science (CS) course. Frederica is one of the first students to take the new Software Engineering Program (SEP class) at her school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2017

K-12 and higher education institutions around the country have invested in data visualization software with the promise of better information and insights. Others provide hands-on user workshops in computer labs. Many utilize training provided by software vendors. Unfortunately, there can be lots of pitfalls along the way.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate. I personally have used FlipSnack as a way of creating more interesting workshops instead of a powerpoint or Google Slides.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's another thing to mandate the use of specific tech (beyond logistical tools like attendance and grading systems, of course) and build resentment and frustration when there isn't enough PD to support the effort.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

That was also the primary question in January 2015, when Jan Morrison, president and CEO of TIES ( Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM ), invited BADM staff along with other early childhood experts, software developers and representatives from MIT’s Fab Foundation to meet in Washington, D.C. Related: Wire those sensors!

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. Coding curricula is sweeping into classrooms across the country, thanks to programs such as Code.org.

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