Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Department of Education reports show that technology can potentially transform education. Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Not only that, but it also has a positive impact on learners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. This is not to say that the mobile medium provides a better learning experience ; however, students' work schedules often prohibit them from dedicated time in front of a stationary computer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

For these students, AI-powered computer vision offers a solution — it can scan documents, scenes and apps and then describe visual elements aloud through speech synthesis. The post OPINION: Artificial intelligence can be game-changing for students with special needs appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. The free report , published by Monroe, Wash.-based billion in 2021 from $2.7

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now. percent did so in 2017.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Want t o GO EVEN FARTHER in the classroom with EVEN MORE Google Apps on your mobile device? Google Keep Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search. Chrome Remote Desktop Securely access your computers from your mobile device. iTunes Google Play 2. iTunes Google Play 6.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

Android Apps for Education Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, running on smartphones and tablets. But, you can also use Android Apps on Chromebooks , including the new Chromebook Tab 10 Chrome OS tablet. Chrome and Android all in one!

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Instead of worrying about having to travel, think about being mobile, in more than one sense of the word. News & World Report, there are fewer resources for K-12 education than prior to the recession. If you are a teacher without a classroom, you have to think like you have a mobile office. Advanced Mobility.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards. According to Lightspeed’s Edtech App Report , which examined the use of edtech in more than 100 school districts during the 2021-2022 school year, there is an astounding number of apps in use.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools. Mobile devices let teachers and students do what they naturally want to do: move around the classroom or campus, work one-on-one and in small groups.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. If you are wondering how it works in practice, here’s a good example: Duolingo is a free mobile app that helps students to learn foreign languages. If you want to see the original Watergate Affair documents, you can find them on NewseumED.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now. percent did so in 2017.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to a Sparks and Honey report , young people today multitask across at least five screens each day and spend 41% of their time outside of school with computers or mobile devices, compared to 22% 10 years ago.They are also self-directed learners and spend a lot of time researching online.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2023

Despite documenting how her program of study matched the requirements listed on the state’s website, she could not get confirmation from the state’s licensing board that her program would meet the state’s requirements. The post OPINION: We need to plug holes in the principal pipeline appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

classrooms to support digital assessments and personalized learning, to the growth of different mobile personal computing devices in other parts of the world. These devices take images of documents and project them onto a screen. The mobile computing market, at $10.1 Teaching Styles Determine Device Choice. In 2015, over 2.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

You can link any question to state standards and see standards-based reports as well. You can use the camera on your Chromebook or laptop, mobile phone or tablet, or document camera. However, if you’re using a document camera or down-facing camera, laying an item down and then putting the next on top of it seems to work best.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

$5 million NSF grant initiative leads to mobile physics instruction module. While no data exist to document their success at the college level, it is already apparent that improvements are being made. Material from a press release was used in this report. Their work was funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE 0928924).

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2021

From an internet-ready or mobile device, administrators can initiate text, image, and video messages to devices in the ecosystem within a matter of seconds. “It A panel of judges from the industry selected this year’s winners. G2 Visual Alerts overtakes the screen of any enrolled device to send instant communications anytime and anywhere.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. The material that is available for e-learning on a mobile device is specifically designed by expert instructional designers to make it compatible with a small screen. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

One of the documents I would recommend as a “must-read” for administrators is the annual Horizon Report, developed ever year by the New Media Consortium. While this report is not predictive, it does provide valuable information that administrators can use to develop a vision for technology’s role in their schools or districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The trend of giving students personalized devices that not only are powerful enough to provide a comprehensive and interactive education, but also be small enough to be mobile for those “just in case the student needs time away from the classroom” moments that we have all come to know and struggle with. How Do We Redefine 1:1 Learning?

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The trend of giving students personalized devices that not only are powerful enough to provide a comprehensive and interactive education, but also be small enough to be mobile for those “just in case the student needs time away from the classroom” moments that we have all come to know and struggle with. How Do We Redefine 1:1 Learning?

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Classroom Laptops Trends Conference 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015. Schools that distribute mobile devices to students more often lay this foundation, the survey shows. Subscribe today! Sometimes teachers can’t explain things in ways they understand.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She had documented the session, anonymizing some details, to share it as a case study with a room full of hundreds of child psychiatrists who faced similar requests. When assessments are deployed well, she explained, they can be essential to preventing violence in schools and mobilizing resources for a struggling student.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can use it to write anything from brainstorming, lesson plans, reports, etc. Canva Docs allows you to design documents supercharged with videos, images, graphics, charts, and graphs. So now you can create documents of any style just like you can a presentation inside of Canva. Magic Write and Canva Docs. Ready for more?

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Linways Technologies

OCTOBER 14, 2020

With the document repository and digital library equipped in Linways, teachers can upload course-related documents and share course-related videos or lectures to their video lectures or other help files. Our mobile platform is also equipped with push notifications to alert students about such updates from time to time.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the last week’s post I promised to address exactly 10 BYOD concerns that keep schools reluctant to allowing students to use their mobile devices in the classroom. Also, schools should make sure that this BYOD policy is easily available for anyone, and that some simple issues can be solved through also easily available documentation.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2018

In its current form the IoT represents a considerable threat to consumers, due to inadequate regulations regarding its security and use,” states a report by F-Secure , an IT solutions provider. One solution for schools using a cloud environment is a cloud access security broker, or CASB. Realize the Potential for IoT in Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

As reported in The Georgetown Voice , students may distrust social reading technologies that give “professors access to the amount of time a student spends on a reading and how many of the assigned pages they’ve viewed.”. Social reading technologies are touted as quick fixes to promote engagement and compel students to “do” the reading.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Frontline’s Mobile App, in particular, has supported better outcomes for districts by filling more than 5 million absences in the last school year. Additionally, over the past two back-to-school months, 418K jobs were filled via the Mobile App. job applications, and provided 1.6M

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 15, 2015

Hangouts allows video chat for 10 people and has many incredible apps for you to make music, peer edit documents, screenshare, doodle, play games, and more! However, these features are best using the browser version versus the mobile app. Have different roles for students- leader, reporter, note-taker, distributer!

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ProfHacker

MARCH 14, 2018

For example, Lee highlighted a ProPublica report on just this topic a couple of years ago, and eight years ago Mark documented how to archive your Facebook data. Anyone can download their data (on a computer, not on mobile) in a pretty straightforward way.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

With the debt problem for black students in particular reaching urgent levels, The Education Trust and The Hechinger Report have partnered on a series of op-eds to amplify the voices of people studying solutions to the black student debt crisis. ” African Americans heavily rely upon higher education as the gateway to upward mobility.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Since mobile devices are more common than PCs in people's homes, letting families sign up via text gives them easy, immediate access; plus, you can invite them to download the app at any time. Overall, the platform is super easy to use, whether you're on mobile or the web. Family members and caregivers can join via SMS or code.

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