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What does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade

Linways Technologies

Everyone are already using smartphones and laptops in their everyday lives, both adults and children alike. So as a teacher, you at least need to have a working knowledge about technology, internet, social networking etc. So what does it mean to be a teacher in higher education for the next decade?

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Students can access the tests on laptops, desktops, and tablets. The best part of Socrative is that you can use it on almost all digital devices, including smartphones, laptops, computers, and tablets. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time.

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Pre-K Learning: Enhancing Education with Digital Technology

Kitaboo on EdTech

Children who received high-quality, practical knowledge-based learning in their formative years are less likely to fail in high-school. For a generation that started using tablets, smartphones, and laptops before joining the school, the digital method is the best pre-k learning technique.

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3 ways to be a better digital citizen, online and IRL

eSchool News

In my book Digital Citizenship in Schools , I define a digital citizen as someone who shares ideas, makes purchases, plans activities, asks for answers, interacts both at work and in play and much more on digital devices (computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.). In short: living within a digital world.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is important because when looking for credibility markers, sources, or publishing dates, different steps are required on a mobile device than it does on a laptop or a desktop. As Darren alluded to, the vast majority of people in the world get news now and infer all information through a mobile device, not from a laptop or a desktop.

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Hyperconnected

Learning with 'e's

The exponential rise in these online activities tells us that many people in the western world live in an 'always on' hyperconnected culture, where we seem to be wedded to our smartphones and laptops. The caveat is that we need to know where to click to access these interactions and knowledge bases.