Buncee

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Buncee was implemented initially as a user-friendly tool, accessible on iPads for younger students and Chromebooks for our older grades, that would allow students to creatively demonstrate their learning. Some students chose to create from a blank canvas, while others use Buncee’s library of templates to get started.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This piece is the first in our new monthly series focusing on Innovative School Libraries and Librarians. Be sure to keep checking back during the month of August for new library-focused articles!]. This project comes after students have studied Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

The University of Texas at San Antonio has more than 2 million titles in its library system, and lately it’s been building a collection that most students—and future teachers—might not even know exists yet. Using an app on an iPad or other tablets, readers hover over a book to see and interact with images that appear in 3D.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2022

Students who want to use the restroom or visit the library or other office now pull up an app on their iPad and bring it to the teacher, who keys in his or her access code to grant permission. Every student in the school already has a school-issued iPad, so it’s just another option on those student devices. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2023

The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Encourage students to meet in study groups via virtual rooms like Google Hangouts. When I introduce students to digital note-taking, we start with a discussion of handwritten vs digital notes. quick methods like texting are fine.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In a fairly short time, amazing innovations like iPads, laptops, and smartphones have opened up a new world of information for students of all ages. It should be no surprise that studies show engaged students retain more of what they have learned. Adapting to this exciting new reality can be challenging for both teachers and students.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 12, 2018

For students using iPads, three amazing and free apps — Recap, Adobe Spark, and Shadow Puppet Edu — can support the process of capturing a reflection in more than just writing at the end of a long assignment. Recap is a web-based video reflection tool that allows students to capture their thinking using their iPad.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free / Age : 4+ 2. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age : 4+ 3. Alternatively, you can use the site's library to search for pre-designed standards-aligned lessons, videos, and activities and integrate them in your instructional practice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Here’s what a joint study from Legends of Learning and Vanderbilt University found: “…students who played the games outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad); Price: Free 2. Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad); Price: Free, offers in-app purchases 3. Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac); Price: Free, offers in-app purchases 4. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases 5.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

In a recent study from educational nonprofit Project Tomorrow , nearly 62 percent of teachers reported using video games in their classrooms. If a school adopts iPads, teachers can only use games that work with the Apple operating system. You have access to a limited library of games.”. The same goes for Chromebooks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. So when Hiram College announced last month that it would provide every student and professor an iPad starting this fall, it made us wonder what the state of Apple’s sector-creating tablet on campuses is these days.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just a couple of weeks ago, the Library of Congress announced the launch of three new apps for Web and mobile, developed by educational organizations that were supported by an LOC grant for app development. Correlation of content with Social Studies standards. Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 11, 2019

In the fall of 2018, the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network expanded to include the Teen Hangout youth program at the Loveland Public Library in Loveland Colorado. MacArthur Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Loveland Public Library is the third institution to join the network under its new affiliate program.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 5, 2017

How a local public library in Nashville is using digital media to help teens see themselves as readers, and much more. It began with a simple library lending program. The Nashville Public Library (NPL) got the teens at Woodland Hills set up with library cards, which they use often.

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Kathy Schrock

APRIL 24, 2023

If you are curious about 3D printing and how it can support teaching and learning, IME3D provides overviews and case studies for various grade levels using 3D printing. MODEL LIBRARY There is a huge 3D model library (called Things) with various categories of assets like toys and games, creativity and fun, household, and education.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Yet, iPads and Chromebooks have their limitations. Integrating workstations into the school library is a popular approach. These diverse spaces are often known as the “ library commons.” ” Increasingly, school libraries are less about stocking print materials and more about collaboration and creating meaning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That can leave parents and educators feeling a sense of anxiety about technology and kids, even as more schools use iPads and Chromebooks and other tech in classrooms. My daughter was irritated by this study to no end, and she was like, "Oh my God, we can't win as teenagers. Causal relationships are really hard to get out of that data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

The school’s one-to-one iPad program gives every student a sixth-generation iPad and every teacher a MacBook Air laptop and iPad Pro device. We handle everything from the Wi-Fi and projector issues to using AirPlay on an iPad. Case Study) Immaculata-La Salle High School: Tech team leverages iPads at this School with MDM.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Coding gives us another way to solve our problems,” Diane Nodell, the library media specialist, reminded them. They opened their iPads and within minutes were following arrows around the grid on their tablets, producing different colors with each set of directions. Are you ready to learn the basics?”. The children were.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading. Have a great classroom library. Can Ipads, Nooks and Kindles Motivate Students to Read More?

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

An independent study from Johns Hopkins University shows that a program designed to reverse “summer slide” at scale showed real impact on student engagement and Lexile growth for students who read on the adaptive literacy platform LightSail for as little as 30 minutes per day. The demographics of the student cohort studied are 91.7

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It started with a push for desktop computers which soon expanded to iPads and the wonderful apps (like art programs) that made tablets essential tools. Quickly after iPads, schools fell in love with Chromebooks and their amazing ability to allow students to collaborate and share, not to mention their ease of maintenance.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MAY 5, 2015

Third grade is currently working on a Dr. Seuss author study as they close out the year, and they wondered what students might do in the library related to Dr. Seuss. Before student arrived, I setup the 5 centers around the library so that they were somewhat in a circular arrangement. Center 4: iPad apps.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MAY 5, 2015

Third grade is currently working on a Dr. Seuss author study as they close out the year, and they wondered what students might do in the library related to Dr. Seuss. Before student arrived, I setup the 5 centers around the library so that they were somewhat in a circular arrangement. Center 4: iPad apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2017

Studies vary on how much knowledge students lose during the summer months–some say up to two months of reading and math skills –and results are heavily-dependent upon demographics, but the loss is real. This doesn’t require a library. Any age: Explore the night sky using an iPad app like GoSkyWatch.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Students can learn science, math, geography, history, culture, citizenship, and more by studying famous pirates. Create a comic online or use the free iPad app. Students choose from a library of characters or upload their own drawings and pictures. Enjoyed these resources? Zooburst is an online free 3D pop-up book creator.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Students can learn science, math, geography, history, culture, citizenship, and more by studying famous pirates. Create a comic online or use the free iPad app. Students choose from a library of characters or upload their own drawings and pictures. Enjoyed these resources? Zooburst is an online free 3D pop-up book creator.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

And I'm always thinking about building in the opportunity to collaborate, paired with independent study. EALA Tech Tool Library. I worked with Digital Promise in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program, and the students received their own iPad to take home and use during the school year. Recommended resources from EALA.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

DECEMBER 9, 2016

For the past 3 years, our library has participated in Hour of Code during Computer Science in Education Week. When we first started participating, classes came to the library to try out an hour of code. It was fun to see something that started in the library spread into general classrooms. The students love it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Nothing more; nothing less.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Besides iPads and Chromebooks and a plethora of free websites that enable students to collaborate, share and publish, education’s tech explosion has resulted in a wide (and increasing) variety of tools that extend the teachers reach, making it easier to differentiate for the varied needs of students even in a busy classroom. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

But how does a philosophy that has been taught for centuries stay relevant in an education age immersed with iPads and apps, and careers driven by the digital economy, automation and personalization? Ancient texts are explored in books and online, and research relies on libraries and Google.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2015

You may post study guides and homework on a class website, but they don’t make a lot of sense to the student who missed class because s/he was sick or out of town. She broadcast the class on her iPad with her Google Hangouts (GHO) app, sent me an invite, and that’s it. Classtime traditionally is a static point in time.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

' To help you do this, the team here at Brainscape—the world’s smartest study app—put together a toolbox of the best language apps for preschoolers. Make sure you stay tuned until the end for a free library of really helpful resources on guiding your kid’s education!) So with that said, let’s go!

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