Vizor

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, schools can use GAM to: Enroll and deprovision Chromebooks in bulk Set up device policies and preferences Perform OU assignment Update ChromeOS versions and settings Monitor device status and usage Enable and Disable Devices Generate reports and audits Automation can be especially useful for schools that use Chromebooks.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

When I asked him what kind of research he’d done, all three boys talked over each other about how they used the Minecraft Wiki and YouTube game tutorials to learn more about the mechanics of the game. The conversation led to a new collaboration between NWP and Minecraft Education Edition. Think arctic environs with polar bears.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

It’s been a good year for open educational resources (OER). Department of Education. OER, which are free, openly licensed and repurposeable educational materials, have been shown to measurably decrease the cost of attending college, in some cases by up to 25 percent. Nearly 40 community colleges throughout the U.S.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Education is changing and we have to address these changes in order to adapt and choose the right path. There are some major shifts happening in the way perceive education and the mechanisms we use for teaching and learning. So what does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade? Why next decade?

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Preview of annual report identifies where K-12 education and education technologies may be headed. On May 12, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) gave a small online audience a taste of the nation’s K-12 education technology trends for 2015.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? News & World Report , 2015). Educators : How are you tackling these challenges in your classrooms? What kinds of solutions can be created to help?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom. It’s easy to use, accessible from all devices, collaborative, and integrates with lots of education apps. Designed by Freepik.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2018

A group of educators trying to get a handle on what’s coming next in technology are working to build a new type of organization to track edtech trends. The effort is tentatively called the Future of Education and Everything community, or FOEcast (think fauxcast). Tom Hames has been one of those planners.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Engrade Deliver solid content, crunch data with connected LMS/grading platform Pros: Beyond the grading and reporting platform, there are useful instruction and assessment tools like wikis, flash cards, and quizzes. By Common Sense Education.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 28, 2013

As with most things, education is key. Open Thinking Wiki-Media Literacy -Alex Couros has curated lots of great information on a wide array of digital literacy topics like understanding where information comes from, combating cyberbullying and more. How can teachers and schools help? Digital Citizenship And More -Looking for more?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

.” As a result of the program, which went live on English Wikipedia in April 2015, thousands of new edits are checked each day which generates roughly 100 flags for Wikipedia editors to further investigate using Turnitin’s customized reports. Wikipedia and EranBot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Now that I am back in the classroom two days a week teaching gifted elementary students, I can do and report on the cross curricular units I plan and implement. The educator becomes a facilitator whereby activities are introduced and then the learners become the active agents of their own learning. Learner choice and voice is valued.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. “ The Absurdity of Armed Educators ” by Vann R. Newkirk II in The Atlantic.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 12, 2013

These are theories that guide many educators today. Normally, in higher education, students write for an audience of one. I did some early studies into the effects of this when I implemented a programme wide use of wikis in 2006. It is also superb preparation for anyone who is about to embark on a career in education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education Research Review and Resources , no matter income or background, students with involved parents are more likely to have higher grades and test scores, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“Wikipedia has been dealing with fake news since it started 16 years ago,” notes LiAnna Davis, deputy director of the Wiki Education Foundation. Today, educators are among those more concerned than ever with standards of truth and evidence and with the lightning-fast spread of misinformation online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

There are so many educational games and simulations online–if you haven’t looked lately, you’ll be surprised. This could replace the traditional write-a-book-report activity students engage in as prep for their next school year. Games and Simulations. Designed for middle and high school, but adaptable to other grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Accomplishing this so it serves educational goals isn’t as much about knowing how to use the tools as constructing knowledge in an organic, scalable way. Multimedia projects. Lots of tech tools are used in conjunction with other tech tools.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

If you haven’t followed FOEcast, it’s a project to create plans for a future of education and technology initiative. I asked the crowd: what value do future of ed tech projects like the NMC Horizon Report bring to you? Next we asked: what methods or strategies do you use to learn and think about the future of education?

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2015

Back when I was in school, class projects were limited to written reports, dioramas, and posters—things we could create with pencils, paper, Popsicle sticks, and glue. As educators, it behooves us to find ways to provide opportunities that allow our students to engage in learning activities relevant to their lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, author’s name, public domain reference, or even as little as an email from the creator giving you permission. Wiki Images.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

If you haven’t followed FOEcast, it’s a project to create plans for a future of education and technology initiative. I asked the crowd: what value do future of ed tech projects like the NMC Horizon Report bring to you? Next we asked: what methods or strategies do you use to learn and think about the future of education?

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 11, 2012

They have to write a report, and create a presentation. This required students to type a report in a word processing document, then use poster board to cut out, and paste, draw, sketch, etc. To find other educators w/ similar interests. - To find information about an educational topic - instead of Google! . -

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Iowa’s STEM Teaching Endorsement Partnership – Higher Education Plan , Jeff Weld & Kris Kilibarda. Lunch and STEM Education Awards for Inspired Teaching , Gov. STEM education is sweeping the nation but Iowa’s enthusiasm is hard to match. STEM Education Award for Inspired Teaching video.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As shown below, well-designed serious games can teach, educate, and inspire. Therefore, we educators need to educate ourselves on game based learning. Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. By Jennifer Roland.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

OLDaily Online Newsletter You Tube Video, Connectivism and Technology [link] Connectivism in Practice Building 21st Century Learning Environments in EC-20 Building Educational Technology Leadership Capacity Promising Practices: Use and Transference - Using these tools with master''s program students so they will in turn use them with their students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

Instead of webtools, you may choose to have students play educational games and simulations online and teach them to classmates. This could replace the traditional write-a-book-report activity students engage in as prep for their next school year. Designed for grades 3-12. Here’s a thorough lesson plan. Bridge Building.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 3, 2015

To this day, I regard her as a great educator; one of the very best. Nowadays, many educators use the same methods over and over again in their lessons for students to express themselves and demonstrate their new knowledge. News Report (try Fodey ). Wiki (try Wikispaces ). After all, variety is the spice of life.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

There are so many educational games and simulations online–if you haven’t looked, you’ll be surprised. This could replace the traditional write-a-book-report activity students engage in as prep for their next school year. Games and Simulations. Designed for middle and high school, but adaptable to other grades.

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Mark Smithers

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Dear Faculty Member or Academic (whichever you would prefer), I was delighted to see your response to Joshua Kim’s post on experiences working with Learning Designers which he reports here on the Inside Higher Education web site. Education != ” We, faculty, establish the environment for education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

In a move to make high-quality educational content easily available all in one place, The Girard Education Foundation will migrate its teacher-created resources on Activate Instruction to Gooru. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 22, 2017

It is certainly not a bad thing that the number of education conferences continues to grow. The question for any education system, then, is this: How do we make having a growth mindset the norm amongst educators? Remember, the New Zealand system is fantastic, but Kiwi teachers are still coming to terms with it.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

Around this time each year we share the year and we report on accomplishments. It also generates spreadsheet-based reports. Flipgrid : Reasonably priced and built for education, this flexible video response tool allows for students to record 90-second video responses in a grid, no sign-up necessary.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. And some credit it for helping kick-start a trend—now known as open educational resources, or OER—that has sent shockwaves through the traditional publishing industry. Or at least, edited. colleges use at least one.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 31, 2012

Speakers included Derek Robertson, Steve Dale, James Langley, Chris Mayoh and Julian Wood, who presented variously on games based learning, e-safeguarding, embedding the iPad across the curriculum, the use of QR codes and mobile devices in education, and how to engage readers with digital texts.

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wwwatanabe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Taking the traditional research report and adding in technology to create a digital presentation does not change what it is -- it''s just a fancy research report. Variety with Technology Having students create presentations does not make it PBL. 21st Century Learning PBL'

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