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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Through these devices, students access web-based study tools, simulation tools, and apps where they can interact with their teachers and fellow students.

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Digital Learning Day: Social Media PD Best Practices #DLDay

The CoolCatTeacher

These truisms are valid for the flowers and the fruit trees and also for the fragrant pollination of ideas happening at the digital water coolers satiating the learning thirst of digital scholars tap tap tapping at keys and pressing send on their smartphones. Listen Now. Best practices for hashtag maintenance and open learning.

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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? The world is highly digitized.

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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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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

The best part of Socrative is that you can use it on almost all digital devices, including smartphones, laptops, computers, and tablets. SelfCAD is an ultra-modern browser-based 3D modeling software that enables users to create everything from simple sketches to full-fledged designs.

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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

Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base. If one was using the computer, the other would have to join class from his smartphone, which made it difficult to see his peers or anything the teacher might have been demonstrating on the screen.

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