Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad); Price: Free 2. Using this app, kids can explore outer space, meet some dinosaurs, build a robot, become a superhero, and more – all in one whimsical world full of Sago Mini friends. Compatibility: Android/ iOS (iPhone, iPad); Price: Free, offers in-app purchases 3. BrainPOP Jr.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With test prep programs like iReady and Study Island available on the iPads, students are able to practice outside of school—a luxury not previously possible before joining VILS. “No For example, students created mazes out of cardboard, then coded their Sphero robots to travel through the mazes without mistakes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 24, 2017

Today Carrie Willis @carriewillis18 talks about how kindergarteners in her STEAM lab use their iPads. In today’s show, Carrie Willis talks about the workflow in her kindergarten classroom with iPads: How they use Seesaw. The challenges of kicking off an ipad lab. They use SeeSaw portfolios, green screen videos, and more.

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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. Digital arts students create designs for the drama club’s school production while engineering students help with the robotic aspect of props for the production. to “How do I AirPlay?”

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Following its March announcement, Apple’s Schoolwork app for iPad is now available for teachers. Osmo , which makes tangram-like puzzles that integrate with an iOS app, releases a new case and base station for iPads. The new company, owned by SDI Innovations, makes a robotic arm and a corresponding STEM curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For many, study of the human body starts in second grade with an introduction to what’s inside that stretchy, durable skin that coats our bodies. take a picture of themselves with the iPad camera (or another digital camera). use an avatar that has basically human parts (like a robot). Scholastic Study Jam: the Human Body.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

Teacher #1 – Matthew Farber ( @MatthewFarber ), Social Studies. Says Farber of Game Education; “I use games in social studies because the mechanics (e.g. The iPad displays a picture of a word, and students play a guessing game, Wheel of Fortune Style, where they place Scrabble tiles that can be read in front of the iPad.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

It''s that parents of elementary students are looking for someone to talk to about iPads, phones, tablets, and how their kids are using them. As I was preparing to present to the parents, I created a small slide deck, grabbed a robot, and headed over to the elementary school. That''s when I knew there was a central problem to the iPad.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example, say robots and drones will be the hot-ticket item of the year (according to a recent study – they will be ). Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 10, 2015

It’s that parents of elementary students are looking for someone to talk to about iPads, phones, tablets, and how their kids are using them. As I was preparing to present to the parents, I created a small slide deck, grabbed a robot, and headed over to the elementary school. If back to school night has one lesson for me.

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My Paperless Classroom

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I talked with the teacher sin fourth grade and learned that they have been studying Mean Median and Mode, so I knew that Sphero''s SPRK lesson on Mean Median and Mode lesson would be a good match. I measured several 7 foot wide spaces and marked them off with tape I connected Spheros to their iPads.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The third- and fourth-graders at Elm City College Prep, clad in protective goggles and facemasks, studied their preserved frogs with the seriousness of med students facing their first cadaver. We believe in the idea of trying on different identities: ‘I’m going to be a photographer, robotics engineer, or actor in a Shakespeare play.’ ”.

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MindShift

JULY 28, 2016

Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one. At many schools, if there’s a robot at all, it’s located in a science or math classroom or is being built by an after-school robotics club. PROGRAMMING MIRRORS WRITING PROCESS.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A recent study within a number of school districts, including the Middletown City School District, showed significantly greater academic growth in blended learning versus traditional classes. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem. Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 4, 2016

We settled on robotics as a way to create an interdisciplinary project that would allow the students to express and share what they had been learning about a specific country in the Putumayo program. Using tissue paper, felt, and other craft supplies, the students brainstormed and worked together to design beautiful outfits for their robots.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? wi.us, among other sources."

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Graphite Blog

JULY 4, 2016

We settled on robotics as a way to create an interdisciplinary project that would allow the students to express and share what they had been learning about a specific country in the Putumayo program. Using tissue paper, felt, and other craft supplies, the students brainstormed and worked together to design beautiful outfits for their robots.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

These lessons can be done on any platform, with my favorite being Google Slides, as it works best on our school’s iPads. Coding - When my school went 1:1 with iPads 4 years ago, I had my 6th-grade class try the Hour of Code. These interactive, organized, and easy to build lessons work great in any classroom, any grade, and any subject.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There has been a lot of discussion about screen time, iPad usage, traditional versus new teaching strategies. Students had to study the US map, come up with questions, and use their critical thinking skills to try and guess where in the US the other school was from. Our third grade participated in a Mystery Skype with a school in Ohio.

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 16, 2019

Help your students think like a robot? I've seen kids code Dash and Dot robots to a certain location in the classroom, open up an envelope and find the next spelling word to add to their piece of paper. You don't have to have a robot to do that, use the unplugged version mentioned above! What is the value in that?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

00:01:02 Speaker 1 On their phone, on their computer, on their iPad. 00:03:22 Speaker 1 So a lot of those computer science and robotics clubs are now taking it to the next level. Now if if there’s a mission and it’s all gamified, so they’re making this robot move around the the, the, the, the screen.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2020

My Robotics Friend is a programming tool that invites learners to design algorithms to show a peer (a “robot”) how to stack cups in different patterns. Robots” respond to the algorithm defined by their peers. Studying STEM from afar is totally possible. While students are doing that, they can also stay active.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 28, 2015

If you have an Ipad and a Sphero, download this free app now. As a K-5 programming teacher, I want my students to study programming in a variety of contexts and Tickle puts programming in the middle of my classroom, flying through the air, rolling on the floor, even controlling the lights in the room.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

LOST AT C: The study-abroad program, Semester at Sea, has rolled out a program for online and distance learners. Students are virtually beamed onboard a cruise via a robot, which has a screen and camera to give students at home a sense that they are roaming around the ship. Okay fine, it’s Amazon. But why stop there?

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2016

After being handed a folder of case studies and escorted to the first classroom, I pulled out my iPad and prepared to take notes. Next, I formed a dozen arguments for why I should be allowed to use my iPad. Finally, I took a deep breath, politely asked if I could please borrow a pen, and put my phone and iPad away.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Yet a growing number of educational institutions across the States are using iPads; a 2013 survey of K-12 students showed that 48 percent had used a tablet during class. The user writes commands for movement and drawing to produce line graphics either on screen or with a small robot—a turtle armed with a pen.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

If a teacher wants their kids to create, IPad is still the device to go with. Overall, I think IPad can be a great Education device, but there are pain points that come with it. If it were me, I would have sets of iPads in my school to let kids create, but I don't know that I would go one to one with them.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning. The spaces in the district focus on robotics, coding and creating. Castano and Willow Oaks schools are expected to open their makerspaces in the fall.

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ASIDE

APRIL 19, 2016

The students studied the continents and made map keys to mark where each of the landmarks was located. The second grade teachers, Stefani Rosenthal and Jessica Raffaele , had the students document the communities by taking photographs on their iPads. Geography was an integral part of the learning process.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency. Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I would often contact 3rd-5th grade teachers (and it helped that I had my own girls in those grades at the time) and ask them what they were studying. Sometimes I would create web searches for our students to learn more about what they were studying in class but also learn the skill of good Internet searching.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

This was a great enhancement to the district’s 1:1 initiative, which provides Chromebooks for students in grades 3-8 and iPads for students in K-2. This group set the robots and tools out before classrooms arrived, did small demonstrations for visiting classes and made sure the materials were put away after each class.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

KinderLab Robotics ( kinderlabrobotics.com ) announced Free Throw , a throwing-arm attachment that lets the KIBO robot toss ping pong-sized balls. Osmo ( www.playosmo.com/education ) launched a new Osmo case and base for iPads at ISTE 2018. It is available in different widths, worksurface depths, and is ADA compliant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

The future of technology links the digital and the physical I sat in a great session from Brad Waid and Drew Minock ( Two Guys and Some iPads ) that showcased the latest in Augmented Reality (AR). Swivl is a rotating "robot" that follows you while capturing video and audio. Swivl can also sync your slide presentation with video.

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