Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Conferencing tools and video calls are examples of ways that teachers can have professionals and other tutors join the class. And it’s a great way to get more done.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 22, 2022

It’s this text that mandates the provision of ramps for wheelchair users, for example. . Digital accessibility is about ensuring that all users can perceive, use, and operate web content, software, mobile apps, and other forms of digital media. Examples of Digital Accessibility .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Wouldn’t you love to experiment with 5G on your smartphone or play with Samsung’s foldable phone? With the App Inventor program from MIT, students use block-based tools to build apps on a smartphone. Students do need to set up their mobile device to run the app. App Inventor. MS/HS; free. High School; fee.

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Neo LMS

JULY 20, 2021

For example, during the pandemic, I used one tool to collect messages from friends and family around the world for my daughter’s birthday. Mobile devices need apps. For example, I will often save a Tweet rather than a link in a Tweet so that I can give credit to the person who called it to my attention.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 13, 2024

USB-C gaming monitors are bringing mobile gamers into a whole new era. Dive into this guide to turbocharge your mobile gaming setup. Smartphones have carved out a niche for themselves in the gaming world, fusing portability with powerful hardware to offer gaming experiences once only possible on game consoles and PCs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor MAD-Learn - Mobile App Development MAD-Learn is a free, easy tool for students to use to build apps of their own in a private space for just you and your students. 00:05:31:17 – 00:05:59:11 Brian What kinds of specific strategies can you use like a retrieval boxes as an example.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. This is not to say that the mobile medium provides a better learning experience ; however, students' work schedules often prohibit them from dedicated time in front of a stationary computer.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

13 Brilliant Outcomes Of Project-Based Learning by Terry Heick Project-based learning isn’t a ‘trend’ any more than mobile devices are a trend. Mobile devices–smartphones, for example–simply provide a (physical) framework to host hardware (e.g., iris scanners, cameras, etc.)

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. However, it has taken the e-learning industry by storm. Learning Management System (LMS).

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 11, 2018

Unfortunately, in the most extreme examples this can have a detrimental effect on a child’s prospects in life if they don’t excel or at least perform to the best of their abilities in exams. Aside from stress, the overuse of mobile devices is another major culprit behind students’ sleep deprivation. What parents can do?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 22, 2019

So when viewing “reality” through the camera or mobile screen, digital tools augment or add to what you see. Pokémon GO is an excellent example, where players see the real world, but also see Pokémon characters in that world, ready to be collected. Examples include automated stock trading software and automated cars.

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Doug Levin

MAY 27, 2015

Specificially, it asked parents their opinion as to whether television, computers, video games, and mobile devices each have a mainly positive or a mainly negative effect on the educational development of children their child’s age. While both the content of what is being viewed/played and the context in which it is being used (e.g.,

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Notable advances in this field include the use of AI in stroke diagnosis and smartphone-based cognitive assessments. Smartphone-based cognitive assessments : Mobile apps and tools are now available to assess cognitive function using smartphones. Smartphone-based cognitive assessments aid in identifying dementia.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 14, 2014

Mobile Technology is here to stay. Many of us may try to resist integrating mobile technology into our classrooms. What are some ways in which mobile technology has changed the classroom? What are some ways in which mobile technology has changed the classroom? It is a fact of academic life. This is true of all majors.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 29, 2023

Smartphones 2.7. Smartphones For older children who need a more powerful device for school work or messaging their friends, consider getting them a smartphone. For example, the Harry Potter series has remained popular among readers of all ages since its release in 1997. Ideas for valentine's day gifts for kids 2.1.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 3, 2016

According to ComScore, the average person spends 80 percent of their time on mobile devices using only three apps. Favorite examples here include Drafts and Workflow , which push the phone’s ability to pipe information among different apps.). million apps in the App Store (Android users have 1.6

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Beyond simple smartphone commands, AI has found a use in the context of eLearning. Otherwise known as microlearning, instructors have found that lessons, in addition to online modules, yield greater and faster retention when, for example, a 2-hour long lesson is broken up into 4 30-minute long sessions. Mobile Learning.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. It can be actuated via a smartphone or iPad, laptop or in-person, but access is constant–which in turn shifts a unique burden to learn on the shoulders of the student."

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2019

For example, Facebook became a corporate supporter and partner of our work in 2018 with a grant through their Community Boost program. the Community Boost grant provides small businesses and entrepreneurs “the digital education and skills needed to compete in the new mobile economy.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 31, 2024

While they are easy to create, PDFs are not optimized for all viewing devices, such as mobile phones or tablets, where you have to zoom in and out for text clarity. However, similar to PDFs, flipbook magazines also have certain drawbacks, with one being the absence of optimization for mobile reading.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For example, at Columbia University, professors are creating and using virtual reality tools to help students gain empathy across racial lines, learn dentistry techniques and examine molecules in 3D. Even students accustomed to using smartphones are often surprised and excited to try the immersive technology, Ray says.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While this remains a somewhat contentious area in terms of research, it’s clear that in-class games, eLearning, mobile learning, and other new ways of teaching are gainin g traction all o ver the world, and this momentum shows little sign of slo wing down. . UNIVERSE by ViewSonic Platform.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 27, 2022

Chrome Music Lab works across different devices including smartphones, tablets and laptops. For example, the second string is half the length of the first, and it plays the same note an octave higher.' This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

By the time students reach the 4th grade, more than half of them are already using popular apps like YouTube, Google Classroom, Video Streaming, FaceTime, and Mobile Gaming on a weekly basis, according to data by The Social Institute.

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Education with Technology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

How will the students’ mobile device primarily be used? What other ways can teachers have students use mobile devices to engage in learning? to collect examples of student work for a portfolio. to collect examples of student work for a portfolio. to introduce the learning goal during the class presentation.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In essence AR amplifies the user’s senses and unlocks yet another layer of digital information all with the power of mobile devices. The Microsoft HoloLens and Google Glass, for example, are both wearable AR devices which work by projecting a set of images, video and sound output while the user wears a device on his/her head.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 6, 2016

New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews educator Shelly Terrell about her new book, which highlights the power of students’ mobile devices to drive learning in and out of the classroom. But, that was the extent of my experimentation with mobile learning. I had been encouraging students to take charge of their learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. Phil Hill, a prominent edtech consultant, told me that because Africans are forced to introduce mobile, not as an add-on, but as a priority, “from day one, Africans optimize digital learning for mobile. While here in the U.S.,

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 8, 2016

It can be boring if educators just, for example, don't maximize the features of the LMS they’re using such as integration to cloud storage services, or use collaboration tools to increase engagement from students. Smartphones and tablets in classrooms can be used to enhance collaboration between students. They’re virtually ubiquitous.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In an emergency, when timely and effective communications are vital, first responders may have trouble connecting via their smartphones, hand-held radios, or other devices. Many school leaders will therefore be shocked to learn that 52 percent of U.S. The implications are clear.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Many jobs, services, and even cars now use touchscreen interfaces, so technology skills learned on a smartphone or tablet are particularly transferable to all manner of everyday situations. This matches the reality for adult learners: most often, their only connection to the internet is a smartphone.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

For education, this means heavy focus should be placed on incorporating not only digital materials in the classroom, but incorporating mobile devices in class and mobile strategies within the school or institution. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ].

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For example, we study diseases of the human body in seventh grade. Examples include photos, drawings, and videos downloaded from the Internet. These are actions that, for example, signal that an answer is correct or to present information in an unusual context. “I just stand back, and the kids are engaged.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Other activities like reading, for example, could sometimes be done on a screen, though may not offer any benefits. For example, suppose I turned my vocab and grammar worksheets into PDFs, posted them on Google Drive, and also asked students to submit the completed worksheets there. Managing Smartphones in the Classroom.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Teachers may ask the students to access the site or download its app on their smartphones. Galaxy Zoo, for example, teaches kids about classification. . Available as a web-based app as well as mobile apps for iOS and Android devices, GooseChase EDU helps teachers create scavenger hunts with clues.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2019

To get started, I needed a mobile device (like an iPhone, Android phone, or an iPad–the latter is recommended), a Bluetooth connection, and a risk-takers mentality. The code symbols are a bit small for a smartphone screen and become hidden under the iPhone’s lower coping. . kids who love fiddling with mobile devices.

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EdTech4Beginners

AUGUST 30, 2017

Animoto also has a free mobile app available for iOS and Android devices if you’ve got a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) classroom. Just grab your smartphone during the event and take a few quick photos and video clips. Click here for an example. How do I use Animoto? The best part? Video recaps are shamelessly easy.

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