eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

These skills include inhibition (the ability to self-regulate when presented with distractions such as YouTube, Facebook, etc.), Technology and smartphone apps allow students to bring executive functioning tools with them into their classrooms and dorm rooms on campus. disability coach, advisor, etc.).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

It's using technology and social media for social good, for solving real problems in local, global and digital communities. I created a first-year seminar for my incoming freshmen called, “Pleased to Tweet You. We've all seen divisive Facebook posts between adults, and we've seen President Trump’s tweets.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

When, over the past decade, technology was rapidly introduced into schools it was heralded as the saviour of education. However, many technology naysayers are now pounding the pulpit and proclaiming the imminent death of the “digital dream.” A cyber bully is still at base a bully; a smart phone has just become the “weapon of choice.”.

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SpeechTechie

JULY 20, 2012

Hi Folks, I am returning (gradually) from being on vacation for a couple of weeks, and one week pretty nicely disconnected, except for Facebook, which I can''t seem to shake entirely. Through that time, however I was checking my personal gmail pretty regularly on my phone, because ASHA notifications typically come out the 2nd week of July.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 19, 2015

Well, firstly, this sounds as though I am deliberately trying to hide behind technology, which is patently untrue. If I wanted to hide behind technology, I would stay at home, and use my laptop and ''death by PowerPoint'' to lecture to my students from a safe distance. education learning media pedagogy Technology Twitter'

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 11, 2010

Students seek greater control over their learning experiences and a number of technologies grant them this control. Yet when they come to school we take away their cellphones and block them from services like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and others. If we do not use and work with social media we risk becoming irrelevant.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2017

If you look at companies like Google and Facebook, the amount of power they have is almost unprecedented in history. On the other hand, you have a tremendous amount of power in the hands of a new, young group of people who run some of the most powerful companies on earth. It’s a very text-focused place.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Jim described it as a way to think through technology in order to empower the educational community beyond tech skills and training. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment. THE DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Free online lectures covering a wide-range of topics related to education and technology, presented by thought leaders and innovators from around the world, delivered LIVE to your desktop. Listen to one educators'' journey into the successful uptake of technology - from where Penny Bentley started to today!

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. We’ve found out a lot about how people learn in higher education and the technology has allowed us to try things that just weren’t possible before. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Because they aren’t long tedious seminars, expensive college classes, or comprehensive certificate courses, they were ignored by administrators in the past. Facebook @DigitalPromise [link]. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 20 years. Not anymore. Pinterest: @DigitalPromise [link].

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. We’ve found out a lot about how people learn in higher education and the technology has allowed us to try things that just weren’t possible before. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong?

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. The Tech-Savvy Administrator: How do I use technology to be a better school leader? – Steven W.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Although this is regarded to be a sort of holy grail within the ESL profession, digital education technology has only recently reached the proper level of viability in the past few years. While this popularly manifests today as Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram, those platforms are not everything. Breakdowns. Hidden costs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The seeds of innovation are planted at a young age, and technological advances now provide learners of all ages the opportunity to be creators, builders, designers, producers and makers. in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (MEITE). Facebook events. Create lesson plans - sell on TeacherPayTeachers.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

They use computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, video mashups, Instagram, Snapchat, Skype, Facebook, texting, tweeting, social networking, and hundreds of other tools to collaborate and learn independently or from one another. – Using Socratic Seminars to create and answer thought-provoking questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2017

A quick tour of the edu-blogosphere reveals numerous reading lists, playlists, conferences, workshops, seminars, webinars, retreats and edcamps to engage with over two short months. Whether it be on Facebook or Instagram, Twitter or Pinterest, share your learnings with others. It can overwhelm, yes, but there is a way to manage it all.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

“Shifting your attention all over the place is going to be, most likely, drawing your attention away from the learning goals themselves,” says Uncapher, who is also the director of the Education Program at UCSF’s Neuroscape, which researches brain function and technology. Our YouTube videos have gotten 8 million views.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. Related: A private school with more than $100 million will share its technology with three other schools.

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Nik Peachey

JUNE 27, 2012

This has been a common theme to many of the presentations, workshops, webinars and seminars that I have been asked to do over the last few years, but however many times I try to present on this subject I never really feel that I get the message across as clearly and persuasively as I would like. My Learning Technology Scoop.it

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. Adaptive technologies aren’t ideal, but they’re a stepping stone.”. We called it EdSurge Independent: a Medium publication , a Facebook community and a cohort of students meeting weekly. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I Which Is To Say.

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