Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Eight beautifully tangible cubes displaying each letter, number, and a handful of special symbols come to life before your eyes through the accompanying mobile app for smartphones and tablets. Individual and group trends can be analyzed in real-time through automatically generated reports. Here’s the link to their Facebook page.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2023

But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. Lifecycle of a Brand Meta — which changed its name from Facebook in late 2021 — still argues that it’s a big deal. So leaders at the college decided to build their own version. Was that just Silicon Valley puffery?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Hashtags are now used on other social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, and GooglePlus. Use hashtags to see real examples of teachers integrating various instructional trends (ex. Stay on Top of Teaching Trends with These 36 Hashtags. Hashtags are your key to reaching your professional goals in 2016.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

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Perry Hewitt

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Who are your top 9 — the people who appear in that mysterious box on your Facebook profile page? Instead, Facebook’s algorithm displays these people on your profile page as subtle encouragement for you to interact with them. Benedict Evans has a new post on mobile as the new scale ecosystem.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Eight beautifully tangible cubes displaying each letter, number, and a handful of special symbols come to life before your eyes through the accompanying mobile app for smartphones and tablets. Individual and group trends can be analyzed in real-time through automatically generated reports.

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UDL Common Core Smartphone Tablets 138

Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 20, 2023

This could include social media, email, websites, mobile apps, and learning management systems (LMS) amongst others. For example, Instagram and Snapchat are known to be popular amongst younger audiences, while Facebook and LinkedIn are usually preferred by older audiences.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 20, 2015

Facebook introduced new friend-to-friend payments on Facebook Messenger. Should news media drop costly native apps in favor of mobile web? Should news media drop costly native apps in favor of mobile web? Friday Five crowdfunding data development facebook Friday5 messaging mobile strategy'

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of the biggest factors driving recent interest in the metaverse has been Facebook’s decision to invest heavily in this area and re-branding of the platform as ‘Meta.’ This allows for an immersive, real-world-like environment where communication is simple yet effective. .

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Gamification Education Learning Social Media 372

Bryan Alexander

MAY 30, 2015

Mary Meeker’s big presentations on internet trends are always useful, and her new one is no exception. Mobile continues to take over the world. She addresses hardware, software, networks, along with changes to human behaviors in using new and mature technologies. I strongly recommend reading through the whole thing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Think of the giant digital companies formed by founders who met in a dorm (most notably, Facebook and Microsoft). In contrast, Coleman argued that social capital is a powerful force that activates class mobility, with students leaping over the economic divide, some waking up transformed by the American Dream after college.

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Social Media Industry Study Microsoft 151

Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 22, 2016

Messaging is the next big platform, and Facebook gets it. With 800 million Messenger users, Facebook is looking at the rise of messaging globally, and doubling down with new features. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is Google’s solution to slow-loading web pages on mobile devices.

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Perry Hewitt

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Benedict Evans points out that it might be time to evolve from mobile-first to mobile-native. Facebook's announcement of one billion mobile-only users seem to bolster his hypothesis. Weekend fun: New emoji are coming, likely later this month, to bring ¯_(ツ)_/¯ to our pictogram lexicon. Sign up for a weekly email.

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iPhone Microsoft Mobility Case Study 60

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2015

And of course, features are also based on market trends. A good example would be how Facebook and Twitter have incorporated common like/favorite and share/retweet buttons. Mobile apps and/or responsive design It’s standard nowadays for any platform to have an app that’s downloadable from the major app stores.

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LMS Gamification Microsoft Social Media 150

Perry Hewitt

APRIL 24, 2015

.” Back when the “Mobile-friendly” text first appeared on Google search results on mobile browsers, many assumed this was a first step toward an algorithm change rewarding mobile-first design. Mobilegeddon is here without any apparent, major fallout to date, but Moz has listed some potential big losers.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Last week I led a new Future Trends Forum with a twist. Here’s an outline of topics that came up, partly from my FTTE observations, partly from participants: Education and its contexts : I mentioned recent trends about state funding to public higher ed (increasing!), The combination worked well.

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Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Facebook is moving beyond the comment to actual transactions. Now you can order food and buy tickets directly from Facebook Pages, with the social features rolled in from the standalone Events app providing a FOMO nudge. And now you can gather your friends' recommendations more easily. Sign up for a weekly email.

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Perry Hewitt

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Google just made a big improvement to finding in-app content on mobile. This is an important step forward in a world where 50% of all online time — not just mobile time — is spent in-app. After the Paris attacks, Facebook launched “tragedy features” Safety Check and Temporary Profiles.

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Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 8, 2016

Algorithms govern what we do and don’t see on our Facebook news feeds. If you missed this post before the holidays, spend some time with Benedict Evans’ 16 mobile theses. Read for his insights on mobile as an ecosystem, the future of productivity, and (note to marketers) messaging as a route to customer acquisition.

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Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 8, 2016

Algorithms govern what we do and don’t see on our Facebook news feeds. If you missed this post before the holidays, spend some time with Benedict Evans’ 16 mobile theses. Read for his insights on mobile as an ecosystem, the future of productivity, and (note to marketers) messaging as a route to customer acquisition.

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Mobility Facebook Trends Company 60

Perry Hewitt

JULY 1, 2016

This is the year I began to rely on voice commands in the same compulsive manner that we all reach for our mobile devices. Just when you thought it was safe to count on your distributed content strategy, Facebook tweaks the algorithm to favor friends and family over publishers. My favorite Easter egg: "askew.".

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 1, 2016

If the headlines you scroll through in your Facebook or Twitter feed seem remarkably similar, there’s a good reason for that. Low-res live video captured via mobile was all the rage last year with Meerkat and then Periscope, and recently Facebook Live videos seem to be everywhere.

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Perry Hewitt

AUGUST 12, 2016

There's no breakout, innovative feature in the newly-released White House Facebook bot for corresponding with the President. Nick Babich explains how animated microinteractions shape a mobile app experience. Weekend fun: YouTube creators are at the big kids' table with the nomination of Honest Trailers for an Emmy.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 10, 2015

teens now has a smartphone, with predictable increase and shifts in mobile-accelerated social networking. Mobile messaging apps are different tactics, from leveraging the phone’s native capabilities to integrating more closely with mobile web browsing interactions. A solid majority (73%) of U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Read part 1 , part 2 (about audio) , part 3 (about video) , and part 4 (about mobile tech in education). Here were the three biggest trends they identified (in no particular order): Tech Addiction Rich media—gaming, VR, mixed reality—can be so powerful that they distract us from the offline world. This made a great deal of sense.

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Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 95

Perry Hewitt

APRIL 8, 2016

Try this new Facebook Live map to see real-time videos now playing worldwide. Popular subreddit communities like /r/science already drive a fair amount of traffic to news and edu sites; reliable native mobile apps can only increase those numbers. Reddit has launched its first official apps for iOS and Android.

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Android Facebook Analysis Trends 60

Perry Hewitt

MARCH 17, 2017

Worried about what your kids are accessing on their mobile devices? Weekend fun: Up your poetry intake with this New Yorker poetry chatbot, which will send you a poem daily on Twitter or Facebook Messenger. Watch out for a new, ingenious phishing scam making the rounds on gmail. Related: tools to protect your digital identity.

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Social Media Android Facebook Trends 60

Perry Hewitt

AUGUST 28, 2015

markets compared to Snapchat and Kik , and what these apps will need to do to fend off Facebook Messenger. These include the autoplay video behavior on Facebook and Twitter that can cause involuntary viewing, and the phenomenon of a senseless murder planned expressly with social media in mind.

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Facebook Social Media Mobility Video 60

Perry Hewitt

OCTOBER 16, 2015

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages — Google’s recent attempt to improve mobile rendering speed while preserving content monetization models. With mobile usage exploding, creating an open web standard that improves content consumption that supports existing business models is a problem worth solving.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The program operates in what she calls a “mobile-first environment,” meaning 90 percent of the program is taught on a phone, even though classes are in-person. At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program. Subscribe today!

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

Notable findings include that a clear majority of 58% seniors now use the internet — while the overall percentage is lower, it’s rising quickly (see also: Facebook). The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts. Pew has released a new report on Americans’ internet access 2000-2015.

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Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

#IStandWithAhmed generated well over half a million tweets, serious invitations to the White House and to Facebook , along with the inevitable funny responses. Web platform solutions for website or mobile apps are notoriously hard to propagate in a world where people gravitate toward the bespoke.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 1, 2013

Trying to Ban Facebook is Not the Answer , February 22, 2012 - After seeing a news story about a Florida charter school which had sent a letter home to parents encouraging them to get their children off of Facebook, this post flowed out of me like no other post I can remember. A lot of great ideas were shared in the comments.

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Digital Citizenship iPad Mobile Learning Mobility 74

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Launchpad is a new initiative from Building 21 that will directly connect young people to living-wage paying jobs that offer upwardly mobile career opportunities while providing them with the credentials, skills, mindsets and experience to thrive in these roles. They also provide career navigation support that ensures economic mobility.

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 15, 2015

The big news for publishers this week was Facebook Instant Articles. What do Facebook Instant Articles and the $4.4B Every Friday, find five, highly subjective pointers to compelling technologies, emerging trends, and interesting ideas that affect how we live and work digitally. Verizon-AOL deal have in common?

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Gaggle Speaks

JUNE 3, 2016

We’ve reached the point at which almost everyone has a camera on their mobile device, and companies are jumping at the opportunity to provide a video chat solution. The leading trend with video chat apps is the ability to move the interaction from one-to-one to one-to-many through a live-stream, publicly-visible experience.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

The trend could become national, as communities of color continue to be hit harder by the disease. While the district has done outreach with a local chapter of the NAACP, school officials haven’t analyzed the data to determine if there are demographic trends in parental choices for the fall. Subscribe today!

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