eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. By and large, it’s working.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” It’s going to be a thinking and writing partner in multiple languages,” he says, typing questions into the chatbot on his iPad.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Our teachers had already participated in professional development on how to incorporate the blended learning model into their classrooms. We had the knowledge, skills, and teacher training.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

This past Wednesday (February 6) was the second annual Digital Learning Day. New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. He used an app on his iPad called Educreations to create the lesson.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 19, 2016

Educators are now under more pressure than ever to integrate digital media into their instruction. Classroom sets of iPads or Chromebooks or [fill in technology here] now sit in many classrooms waiting to be used effectively for tasks beyond research and word processing (though those are important tasks, too).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Dear Bonni: How can we make student-to-student interaction more personable and engaging in online learning? Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging environment can be a challenge when teaching online. You can pose a question for a future column here. Hypothes.is

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

In July 2020, the district received federal stimulus relief funding that allowed it to invest about $1 million to purchase iPads for children in preschool through grade three and Chromebooks for older students. Due to supply chain delays, the district finished distributing devices in January 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Educators in the suburban Chicago North Shore School District 112 retooled after determining that many of the available tech devices weren’t good enough to handle constant use during distance learning, says Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld. million toward new iPads for every student in K-5 and all staff pre-K-8. The district put $1.6

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But for others, the pecuniary need may be more immediate—replacing a group of iPads that got broken, for example. For any teacher: The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning has a grant program that will open up in April of 2017. It eventually passed —a total of $95 million. Here are the details from last year.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Canva is a web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )!

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

by Letia Cooper It''s not just "Icing on the Cake" in Student Competitions by Katie Leach Join the Common Core Conversation by Kristina Holzweiss Just-in-time support using free online tools by Nicole Naditz Leveraging the Power of Social Media in the Classroom by Elaine Plybon Leveraging web videos to truly flip the classroom by Ari Bader-Natal Making (..)

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Canva is a web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” “New Facebook features intended for developers could, if expanded, turn the social networking site into an online learning platform,” Inside Higher Ed reported in June.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 9, 2020

Khan Academy - A very popular resource for online learning where the user learns at their own pace through interactive exercises and videos. MySimpleShow - A very popular site for creating beautiful looking explainer videos/slideshows, as well as to "flip" or "blend" learning.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Khan Academy - A very popular resource for online learning where the user learns at their own pace through interactive exercises and videos. LessonPaths - Formerly known as MentorMob, LessonPaths allows users to create learning playlists to blend their, flip their classroom, and learn at their own pace.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 31, 2011

1:1 Programs: laptops, netbooks, iPads, and tablets "Flipped" learning Rethinking Homeworl School 2.0 Personal Learning Networks Social Professional Development Social networking Peer-generated PD Student 2.0 1:1 Programs: laptops, netbooks, iPads, and tablets "Flipped" learning Rethinking Homeworl School 2.0

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” The iPad would solve that,” he said. (It’s not that paying for a piece of technology will treat you any better, mind you.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” “​ Ohio State Will Give Incoming Students iPads. .” More on legal actions surrounding for-profits in the courts section above.

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