EdTech Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

The Do's and Don'ts of Project-Based Learning Technology Integration. Educators embracing project-based learning to engage students. for example, educators turned another textbook history lesson into an interactive exploration of the story of their students’ home town, culminating in the development of a virtual museum.

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Neo LMS

MAY 7, 2019

Ever since the classroom was invented educators have been using the latest technologies to enhance the learning process and support students in achieving the best academic outcomes. Today’s students truly are digital natives; not only did they learn to use technology from a young age — they were born surrounded by it. Closing thoughts.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

A mandate in Ontario, Canada, requires all school districts in the province to provide a virtual learning option to K–12 students for the 2021-2022 school year. Over the summer, families were asked whether they wanted their students to learn virtually or in person.

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Waterford

JULY 12, 2023

Use Expert-Led Communication Strategies to Engage the Families in Your District Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinars , including “ Driving Impactful Family Engagement with CARES ,” and learn how you can build a school environment that values families and advises teachers as they connect and collaborate with families.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For example, I had several learners in the gifted program with high intelligence. For example, learners use their working memory to remember steps, instructions and subject matter content. Organizing ensures that they stay on top of what they need to accomplish and understand the content they are learning.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

The World Economic Forum predicts, for example, major disruptions in the world of work. And, in most cases, leaders are figuring out how to do more with less — using ingenuity, partnerships and persistence to give students the modern learning experiences they deserve. by Ryan Petersen. by Ryan Petersen.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

For K–12 education, it’s no longer a question of whether online learning is here to stay but, rather, how can we make it better for our teachers and students? Even before the pandemic, the situation in many areas demonstrated the potential for the meteoric growth of online learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Incorporating Project-Based Learning (PBL) in your classroom is a transformative step towards an engaging, real-world educational experience for your students. 7 Steps to Project-Based Learning Here are the steps you can follow to effectively integrate project-based learning in your teaching practice: 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

So, a student who missed all of second and part of third grade, for example, will still be tested at the third-grade level. It’s one of the biggest challenges facing educators today: K–12 students who missed lengthy stretches of school because of the pandemic are still expected to meet the benchmarks of their grade level.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Digital Promise and Learning Heroes have teamed up for a special blog series that explores how teachers and families can use technology to work together and facilitate learning for students of all ages. Improve understanding through interactive learning environments, including animations, videos, and simulations of concepts.

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Waterford

JULY 12, 2023

Use Expert-Led Communication Strategies to Engage the Families in Your District Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinars , including “ Driving Impactful Family Engagement with CARES ,” and learn how you can build a school environment that values families and advises teachers as they connect and collaborate with families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2024

Another example of teaching remotely arrives when schools struggle with the unusually high number of snow days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. He set up a video with links for classwork and a realtime feed where he could be available and check in on the class.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool. And while schools are coming to drones from a variety of directions, they are all finding that this technology offers learning opportunities for students that touch on every part of their curriculums. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 11/30/2018 - 11:24.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A version of this post was originally published in EdTech Magazine , on June 18, 2021. With Covid-19, university closures, and the shift to remote learning, teachers around the world have had to rapidly adapt to the virtual classroom as the only way of providing education. For example, this can happen during lectures.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2020

So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. Then, have everyone copy their information to a digital magazine (like you can create in Canva or Adobe) and share it with everyone.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies. When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning. phil.goldstein_6191.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

It is important to note that teachers and schools offered from March through May was, in most cases, not best practice online learning. It was emergency do-the-best-we-can-with-no-notice learning. He kept just trying to use the teacher’s original example without expanding his understanding to other organisms. Social Studies.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Seemingly innocuous digital tools and features, such as text size and cursor color, can help students learn — or hamper the experience. Gendered voices are another example. The elementary students that Kristin Oropeza teaches sometimes have trouble locating their cursors on the screen.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 20, 2019

Sevits’s North Middle School students master the art of flying drones as they learn the conceptual physics of how the aircraft work, their different parts and how to fix them when they crash or break. Drones armed with cameras and special sensors can inspect oil refineries and detect damaged equipment, for example. by Wylie Wong.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

As the CIO of a private K–12 school in Florida, Omar Valerio likes to lead by example. He dedicates two hours a day to continued learning to stay up to date on new technology trends, he told host and CDW Education Strategist Victoria Thompson on a recent episode of Focus on Edu.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 3, 2018

This post was originally published in QA Education MAgazine , on October 25, 2017. Everybody’s talking about student-centered learning. I’m sure there are many experts on this subject that agree with me and also can provide practical examples and results of student-centered learning. But what exactly does that mean?

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Egyptian symbols and hieroglyphs are another example of ancient communication through pictures. We are surrounded by visual elements in our daily lives: TV, magazines, billboards, movies, videos, the entire Internet. School means learning and learning means a lot of textbooks and homework. Why is that? Stay tuned!

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

Keep Accessibility in Mind for Modern Learning Environments. As K–12 teachers seek to create classrooms where all students have an equal opportunity to learn, they must be mindful of physical and digital elements that could potentially be a barrier for students with special learning needs. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 14, 2018

He received a free copy of my book, Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones and BYOT. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. 8 Ways to Annotate Readings, Websites and Online Articles with Examples. More Tips and Resources.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

How Project-Based Learning Is Helping Students Build 21st Century Skills. To help bridge the gap between current skill sets and the next generation of employees, K–12 schools are adopting a new approach that is ideal for technology integration: project-based learning (PBL). marquita.brown_tC0Z. Tue, 11/05/2019 - 10:51.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 17, 2023

An article in Science magazine recently announced that fearful tech leaders are calling for an AI research pause, in order to “formulate safeguards to protect society from potential risks” – while others are pushing back, saying that AI can create a more accurate, efficient, and sustainable world. Learn about the importance of AI “prompts.”

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 3, 2019

When it comes to literacy, for example, Maryanne Wolfe, in a recent article in The Guardian , explained that “skim reading” is replacing deep, analytical, reflective reading. But don’t we all do skim reading at times, even with a magazine, a newspaper, or a textbook? We don’t learn deeply from what we skim.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This post was originally published in the October 2018 issue of the Education Today Magazine. The way people learn is as unique as cats’ noses. So even though students in a classroom may look alike, they each have a unique combination of background, strengths, needs and interests that affect their learning outcomes.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

Project-Based Learning Engages K–12 Students with Real-World Challenges. realized how enthusiastic her social studies students were about the civil rights movement, she decided to help them explore the rich history of their own city through project-based learning. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Fri, 06/21/2019 - 14:43.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Divergent thinking is defined here as a learning strategy that encourages students to come up with many different solutions to a problem.[9] For example, children are better at visualizing divergent ideas than adults. That way, they learn to prioritize finding an effective solution over a fast one. What is Divergent Thinking?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

How Makerspaces in Schools Help Students Learn to Code. While computer science is usually associated with computer screens and coding programs, makerspaces offer students a chance to visualize core computer science concepts through hands-on learning. New Makerspace Ideas Empower Students by Guiding Their Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Smith: There needs to be a lot of professional development and a change in mindset from teacher-oriented instruction to empowering students to take more ownership of learning. For example, some staffers say, “How do I teach a class where four students speak a different language?” Education now is 24/7. by Wylie Wong.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We also added a learning management system and other applications. For example, one school had a great idea to sit down with coffee shop owners and go to other places where people congregate and ask, “Can you be friendly to our students and let them come sit and work?” Where we missed the mark was connectivity. by Wylie Wong.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2018

While education technology is key to introducing new learning strategies, the technology itself will only be as good as the implementation plan around it. What’s really transformational is a shift in teaching and learning,” notes Tanya Avrith, co-author of The Google Infused Classroom. Chromebooks are tools. by Calvin Hennick.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. For over forty years, researchers have sought to classify how different students learn and what teachers can do to support them. What Are the Four Learning Styles? How would you discover a student’s learning style?

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

3 Ways to Overcome High Student-Teacher Ratios and Improve Personalized Learning. VIDEO: See how K–12 educators are emphasizing personalized learning for the class of 2030. While innovation in learning technology can provide significant relief for oversaturated classrooms, it does not automatically fix the problem.

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