Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Many will also have new laptops or tablets through one-to-one computing programs , upgraded classroom technology for blended learning , and teachers trained to more effectively use technology to personalize instruction. Before joining EdTech, she was a program manager for the nonprofit Education Writers Association. by Marquita Brown.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. AVer Information Inc.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Data collection and analysis are cornerstones for many STEM and STEAM programs but they’re not just about math. They provide a wealth of rugged, inquiry-based products to educators in more than 100 countries around the world. STEM modules. They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. With these laptops, many teachers rose to the challenge of using digital materials—a new concept back in 2009.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Schools will receive grants to cover all enrollment costs and student access to laptops, as necessary. Our partnership with VHS Learning allows us to increase educational opportunities and empower better outcomes for all students.”. Students also received guidance from NMSI coaches.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 23, 2018

In the Q&A below, we’ll share the perspectives of Cathleen, Shakera, and Veronica, who have been educators for 2 years, 11 years, and 25 years respectively. Cathleen: I love being able to incorporate language arts and STEM through project-based learning using technology. OneNote does it all. We even have the textbooks online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Five years into a massive transition to a personalized learning model, Educators at Fulton County School District in Georgia are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. There was a catch, however: school leaders had to commit to implementing personalized learning models as a prerequisite to receiving free laptops and iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We were on our way to building a Tetrix Prime robot from a kit, when the unimaginable happened—our team’s laptops went missing—and with them, all of our code and design work. My students define their own problems—like how to automate chores over the weekend—and are given freedom to find and implement solutions via robotics and STEM classes.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Working with a school that is moving towards classroom laptop carts, Monica enjoys sharing Lumio since every student doesn’t need a device to make lessons engaging. Educators want their students to be less a consumer of knowledge and more a creator of learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Over the past quarter century, the program has helped more than 360,000 students across the United States and Canada develop interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education at an early age, as well as expand their imaginations and creativity. Educator Resources and Benefits.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

elementary and secondary schools teach the subject, maybe because there are so few curricula available for students. It’s very important for education groups to face [AI] head-on,” she said. The organization, which provides education and training to typically underserved groups, has already taught AI in a refugee camp.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 laptops. In my personal life, I am married to an inspiring educator.

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techlearning

MARCH 22, 2018

When basketball can be integrated with content standards and 21st century education, everyone wins. This site does require free registration for educators. Engineer Hoopsters – A great article from eGFI that lets students know you can excel in the STEM fields while also playing basketball… and winning. Did you miss it?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Sadly, I’ve even had educators argue this point with me in favor of one particular device. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. If you only had six laptops in your classroom, how would you best utilize them? Most don’t have informed opinions (so I’m happy to share mine with them).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ‘s education supplement, Learning. . The Challenger Learning Center at the Scobee Education Center, San Antonio College, Texas, in 2017. But for 40 undergraduates in Brooklyn, college and the library are one and the same.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Increasingly, makerspaces are helping students sustain interest in STEM fields. Now with the help of Facebook and the Ravenswood Education Foundation, he’s come close to reaching that goal. East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier, who attended Brentwood elementary school when she was a child, thinks it will work.

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techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

We as educators must go that next step, providing students a way to problem solve and come up with algorithms that provide the solutions. [ He is a consultant for Discovery Education, ISTE, My Big Campus, and November Learning and is on the National Faculty for The Buck Institute for Education.

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

There are projects for elementary levels as well as project ideas for middle and high school. Seventeen Examples of STEM PBL – Take a look at this list of STEM activities that can be brought into PBL. EGFI – If you are into STEM… than take a look at EGFI and all of its possibilities. Please explore them all!

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ? While there are several education models that promote this idea, it is a necessity in a well-planned Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit. Global School Net – Explore a site that combines education and technology to strengthen communities and benefit humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Higher Education.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

It’s no surprise that game based learning has become a popular resource for education. The ultimate tablet option for digital learning, the Amazon Fire Kids Edition comes with “u nlimited, free access to 10,000 kid-friendly books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, and games.” ″ Gaming Laptop.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 1, 2017

Since we last checked in with Liberty Elementary, a 2014 LRNG Innovator Challenge grant recipient , the garden project has grown, now reaching all the way to the 6th grade. Building on this atmosphere of creativity and inventiveness, the school has embraced a new forum to showcase student learning: the Liberty Elementary Shark Tank.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

Kids should be developing these skills while they're still in high school, college and heck why not even elementary school! The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) has a ton of resources for learning about and getting started with PBL in your classroom. Team STEM design challenges are fun for kids AND adults!

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techlearning

JULY 16, 2018

In this series, I wish to help educators see ways to get ideas for a PBL unit of learning. Elementary may be different from high school. In fact, in elementary almost any subject can connect to ELA. His awards include district Teacher of the Year, Indiana STEM Educator of the Year and Microsoft’s 365 Global Education Hero.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. The Office of Educational Technology in the Department of Education suggests asking these fundamental questions in your search for funds: ?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

It was time, thought the ed tech pioneer, to bring his nonprofit online education empire to brick-and-mortar schools — lots of them. And it would provide a key to ensuring more children become proficient in math, a stubborn problem in education nationally. LAS VEGAS — Sal Khan made a radical decision last summer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Early college access for later success.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Sure, you may have taken a selfie, but you likely haven’t taken an equivalent fraction selfie — and if you ask the Jefferson Elementary School fourth-graders in Jennifer Moser’s fourth-grade math class, you haven’t really lived until you’ve snapped, uploaded and shared your share of equivalent fraction selfies.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We purged through the winners and compiled a list of educational tools and gadgets for you to look for in 2017. Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop. Learn more > goo.gl/hneIsI hneIsI Photo Source 3.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Really, we’re changing the landscape of education in our classrooms, and so we’re moving from being teachers in a classroom to really moving toward that blended environment – what does it look like? She continues to provide support for the state’s educators as a Coach/Consultant for Highlander Institute.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Early college access for later success.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

I taught high school social studies for the better part of ten years, and also worked in special education for a little bit. That’s how I got into the educational technology field, really, was through social studies. You can build your own game like that, and build an educational slant to it. Now there’s an eBook option.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. Today, over 9,000 teachers around the world are part of the StoryBots Educator Network.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

economy, yet it does not play a significant role in K-12 education. But there’s a way schools can help–by getting involved in Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek). Below, you will find a resource guide for CSEdWeek and Hour of Code, in order to help all of you K-12 educators bring coding into the classroom.

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