Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2021

It put that smartphone in your hand, that solar panel on your roof, and that COVID-19 vaccine in your arm. During the crises of 2020-21, we clearly saw that our education system needs to innovate to make it more equitable, agile, relevant and responsive. In 2019, the United States spent 2.8 R&D is our nation’s engine of innovation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

The technological advances of the past two decades have changed the world, and education is no exception. Students who use technology in the classroom perform better, and emerge from their educations better prepared for the challenges of adult life. Higher Education Has Changed, Too.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 18, 2021

Education is a continuous process that starts even before a child goes to school. While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Either way, education technology is here to help.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . Fourteen percent of children ages 3 to 18 lack home internet access , according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ? What climate education look like in the U.S.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Smartphones were a frequent topic, especially from the secondary school leaders. From the beginning of my secondary tenure until my shift to an elementary principal role four years later, smartphones grew in frequency and in use in school. Many of them were more advanced than my district-issued smartphone.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 27, 2019

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. Smartphones are sometimes smarter than their owners and the idea of people going to Mars moved away from sci-fi novels and into the realm of things that might happen in the not so distant future. Smart speakers in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

When VaNessa Thompson wants to truly focus on doing homework for her doctoral classes at Oakland University near Detroit, she gets out her smartphone, props it on her desk, and starts streaming live video of herself on TikTok. People that follow me on TikTok, they’ll get a push notification, ‘VaNessa’s going live,’” she explains.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Click Here Sponsor This week's guest Debbie Tannenbaum, an ISTE Certified Educator, author, blogger, and speaker, offers schools and districts a wealth of expertise. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a similar vein, educators say they want students to pay attention in class, something they can’t do if they’re fixated on Instagram, Fortnite or the app du jour. Performing artists and educators alike have been turning to a low-tech, no-frills method to keep devices out of sight and out of mind. Do Bans Work?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

As mathematics educators, we think the graphing calculator transformed American classrooms for the better. Whether teachers continue to use these tools or ditch them in favor of new ones, graphing technology will likely always have a place in secondary math education. Math educators often talk about two kinds of understanding.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

As my peers quietly compared updates on the chain of events happening in the adult world, the most experienced educator in the room, who the children called “Ms. For example, many of the children that I have worked with over the years in Chicago and Baltimore have had first and secondary experiences with gun violence.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Prize in Education has been one of the most prestigious awards in the field, honoring outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education through innovative and successful approaches. Family Foundation, McGraw-Hill Education and Arizona State University. McGraw, Jr. McGraw, Jr. Quite a bit.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2021

As the education system worldwide began to get a handle on remote and blended learning models, the demand for interactive displays in classrooms remained strong. share of the total global interactive flat panel display for primary and secondary education market over the last twelve months as of 31 March 2021. About Promethean.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers. In K-12 students, whose executive functioning skills are not yet fully developed, regulation of these skills often falls on parents and educators. Psychologists Gerard A. Gioia, Peter K. Isquith, Steven C.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 1, 2020

Our current educational system is now more dynamic and complex due to Covid-19. The three car train concept places educators into different train carriages based on their willingness to adopt an innovative mindset as it pertains to technology. Leading Innovation: Ray Nashar’s Three Car Train Model, Point of Reflection during Covid-19.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. conflicts with China and Russia, I thought it useful to take a look at digital education in those two countries. While here in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated , and at times, heated. And just as a new school year is set to begin, a new study raises fresh concerns about potential downsides of multitasking during class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

The sudden jump to online learning has upturned education disciplines around the globe. But in the world of science education, the lack of lab access has led educators to seek alternatives. Whether COVID-19 shifts how colleges offer distance education options for lab sciences in the long run remains to be seen, he says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. It wasn’t for a lack of effort from educators who wanted to tackle the problem.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. But these are secondary causes. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. This adds up to the tuition fees.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Using wireless presentation tools by Vivi , an education-focused company founded in Australia, Gunn was able to mirror her tablet screen on the classroom screen and play YouTube clips directly through a hardwired receiver without slowing down the school’s wifi—or her students’ work. “I really needed a quick process.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

Even as prices dip for some models, educational institutions and districts are also gaining financial support from outside sources for ventures into 3D printing. We recently rounded up seven 3D printers on the market, including Widaman’s Stratasys, targeted toward educators and students, from big to small, pricey to affordable.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

A New Definition For Equity In Education. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Somehow, though, public education, more so than any other industry or profession, is expected to aggregate these inherent disparities while transcending them.

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edWeb.net

JULY 10, 2018

Digital educational materials have provided many benefits for K-12 educators and students from computer adaptive assessments to tools that allow students to collaborate and communicate 24/7. First, many programs have different protocols for creating login information, causing students and educators endless frustration.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They let students know that using their own devices is welcome, but instruction and educational use is the primary reason for that access. Clear instructions to students that using devices during the instructional day is in support of their educational activities. Personal access for personal reasons is secondary.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 14, 2017

87% of teenagers between 14-17 years-old own a cell phone, and 31% of these older teens have smartphones. Smartphones are dopamine devices. According to The National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse, 77% of all kids between the ages of 8-18 have cell phones.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Today the company also offers a marketplace of nearly 4,000 interactive lessons, built with partner organizations like ReadWorks and Common Sense Education to tackle topics ranging from reading to digital citizenship. They require a smartphone or iPod Touch that is inserted into the gear.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 28, 2019

This blog post is sponsored by Acer Education, a partner of EdTechTeam. As educational technology has become a common staple in classrooms around the world, many educators find themselves in the difficult position of deciding which type of device will serve their students best. Video Capture . Best of Both Worlds .

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. There isn’t a New York Times bestseller list for online courses, but perhaps there should be.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The new, free K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum from Common Sense Education has lessons for all ages to address the current technology landscape. Research from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education shows that educators’ top concerns regarding digital citizenship are: cyberbullying, sexting, fake news, and digital well-being.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In…studies of both secondary school and university students, self-discipline has surpassed intelligence test scores to better predict school performance, attendance, and graduation honors. We have seen this as educators time and again. All smartphones and digital calendars have reminder features. Myers and DeWall, pg.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Through a teacher and an educational technologist in my school district, I''ve recently discovered the Tellagami app for creating short animated videos. I was able to learn the app very quickly this weekend in preparation for introducing it to secondary fine arts teachers from my school district this morning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

What the students don’t know is that the course is part of an ambitious experiment that includes community colleges, Maryland’s flagship university, the nonprofit education consultancy. Ithaka S+R , and a group called Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics , or TPSE Math. The mission?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2017

These are very same literary concepts that we ask our students to learn in primary and secondary English classes. They’re texting on their smartphones—more than they actually talk on them. And as a corollary, I believe an education system intent on developing literacy skills must include all the ways in which kids are writing today.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey , nearly eight in 10 Americans have at least a desktop computer, and 77 percent of Americans across all demographics own a smartphone. Digital access for our students is everywhere, all the time, affecting how our students live, socialize, work, play, contribute, and learn.

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