EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

“It works well for giant projects like museum displays, science fair projects, but it also works well for weekly vocabulary assignments,” says Robyn Tanksley, third-grade teacher at the Sexton Mountain Elementary School in Beaverton, in a video about Adobe Spark. . Experiment with new tech too. It gives them a little swagger,” Beeck said.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 21, 2018

Today’s learners need to know how to ask and answer their own questions. By stepping back and providing your students with tools to begin generating their own higher-order questions and then analyzing the researched information, our youngest learners will be well-prepared for their future. They stay organized on their iPads.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For the entire school year, she moved about our dining room with her school-issued iPad, standing at the table, sitting on the floor, laying on her belly, taking movement breaks as she pleased. It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3

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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. Now, the question was how to experiment with it—and what to do when that money ran out.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. These strategies hold potential to inform visions of future schooling as the country recovers from the devastation of COVID-19. Reimagining Family Engagement.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 16, 2019

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use. Although the article only mentions computers, I let students know the information also applies to using mobile devices, game consoles, iPads and tablets. .” – Laurie Colwin.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the Learning Resources Section, you will find fantastic starter guides for both iPad and Mac all curated into the Apple Bookstore. Topics include Getting Started with the iPad/Mac, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iMovie, Garageband, as well as Productivity and Creativity. Self-Paced Learning Modules & Badges for iPad and Mac.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw. Stream by clicking here. Breakout EDU Kits. #08:

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

When you scan the cube with your mobile device — it will work with an iPhone, an iPad, and it works with Android, but you have to have the Merge Cube app on it. Engaging Kindergarteners with Technology: Augmented Reality, iPads, QR Codes and More. You’ve got a bunch of apps on your iPad. How did you do that?”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2014

A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful while also getting them to learn. The slideshow below provides students ideas on how to be kind in small quick ways. – Bob Kerrey. Ideas and Activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Through this interactive video game, students learn to identify advertising and understand its messages with the goal of becoming informed, discerning consumers. Banzai is a personal finance curriculum that teaches high school and middle school students how to prioritize spending decisions through real-life scenarios and choose-.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Coral Zayas Coral Zayas is the new elementary instructional support specialist for science in Crowley ISD’s iNetwork of schools. And I get to bring that industry information to my students and help them make those real-world connections. Not every school has a Mac or iPad for every student.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 29, 2015

This technology, which works with iOS7 or iOS8 devices such as cell phones and iPads, allows students to react to pingable content that is presented in the classroom. As he coached teachers and designed lesson for students, Paul used iBeacon technology to create learning zones within his school and connect via a game of hot/cold on the iPad.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2017

We use Chromebook carts for K-5 students and offer iPad carts that teachers can check out on demand. By sharing this information openly, we showed teachers that students really were progressing at higher levels. Now, all secondary students are issued a Chromebook that is theirs to keep—even during the summer. There’s no staff buy-in.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2014

A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful while also getting them to learn. The slideshow below provides students ideas on how to be kind in small quick ways. – Bob Kerrey. Ideas and Activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

As the program started, I couldn’t help but think how different her experience as a preservice teacher was from my own. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. I didn’t get much time to interact with students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The trigger warning is buttressed by a more hopeful message accentuated in green: “& TIPS on how to deal with that.” Designing for Climate Education Architects designed a rainwater collection system for Springdale Park Elementary School in Atlanta, where it is used as a teaching tool for the students.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2014

Composing a tweet can be a great way to teach brevity in writing as well as how to skillfully edit & revise for length without changing meaning Most importantly, teaching my students a wide range of technology tools and platforms Here is how students use social media. These blogs are tied to restricted @ps10.org

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

Barrow Elementary, the project begins with each student selecting one of six nominees from civil rights history to research. Each year, I begin by sharing Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize by Kathy-Jo Warginalong with information on the Nobel Peace Prize. Named for our school, David C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

They opened their iPads and within minutes were following arrows around the grid on their tablets, producing different colors with each set of directions. The coding lesson, with students tapping away on individual iPads, was typical in the Mineola Union Free School District in the New York City suburbs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. One year they’ll use an iPad. Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

Enhanced Transcript Hyperdocs: How to and Success Tips for Teachers Vicki: Today we have Lisa Scumpieru @ LScumpieru , who’s a first grade English teacher from Maryland, and we’re talking Hyperdocs. It gives him some background information. I would give them some background information. What are Hyperdocs?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For decades, teachers have used videos in the classroom to share information. As a result, students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly, are more enthusiastic about what they are learning, and make new connections between curriculum topics and the world outside the classroom. How to Teach a Tech Lesson–the Movie.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. A Key Tip: The Non-Playable Character and Linkable Information Inside Minecraft.

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Tech Helpful

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Honestly I start most lessons with elementary students this way: "Do you ever try to talk to your parent and they don't listen because they are busy doing something on their phone?" Learning how to balance plugged and unplugged time is a beast, even for adults. It felt like someone was asking me how to parent their child.

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Social Media Digital Citizenship iPad Elementary 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2019

For example, Wabash County issues all students MacBook Airs and iPads (your school could use Chromebooks) that are available to students who can’t get to school: All Wabash County students in grades 3 through 12 have a MacBook Air they take home every day. For snow days, K2 students can bring home the iPads they use at school. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. Prior to OTIS, how was your district handling PD? Utilizing Zoom Features on an iPad. Microsoft Teams Overview.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

But if your district has yet to successfully implement targeted differentiation, a necessity for 21st century students, you might choose older, tried and true devices like iPads or Chromebooks, and devote your district's time and money to effectively determining and addressing unique student needs. Decide on a classroom model.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. How do you help them get ready to shoot? How do you help them get ready to shoot? Joe: The quickest, easiest thing to do is shoot and edit on the computer, iPad, whatever your device is going to be. Storyboarding?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Yet it was sobering to find only two elementary math software programs with randomized, controlled trial studies from the past six years. With all the math programs and apps on the market, how is it possible there aren’t more? Because of this, I expect to see increased emphasis on mathematics-related professional development in 2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Educational Shows For Elementary. Maybe even let the kids pick different titles to teach them how to make comparisons.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 14, 2016

Do you remember walking into the school library during your elementary school years? Librarians are not only caretakers of books and information tour guides; they are learners, researchers, teachers, and curators. For example, teachers can now use different search engines with their students online to find and curate information.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

Rising kindergarteners through second graders at North Rowan Elementary School in Rowan Salisbury Schools participated in a three-week STEAM camp to jumpstart learning in the weeks before school. Mineola Union Free School District made iPads available to students all summer long.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 19, 2020

You don’t have to figure out now how to carry this over to the next school year, but having a record of what you’re seeing to prove the benefits of now versus the traditional ways of doing school may be helpful to you later in creating permanent change. . Maybe this is something you finally have time to try.

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