Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This pandemic fall semester has understandably raised anxieties about whether students will receive valuable instruction in the academic topics they study in class. But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Some of our findings from the pre-pandemic era were disconcerting in terms of the time that students spent learning about religious diversity.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Classrooms are dynamically impacted by the dual forces of technological evolution and student expectation. Student engagement is changing, driven by digital natives looking to combine organic social interaction with science, technology, engineering and math discovery. Stand-and-deliver discourse won’t do it for Gen Z students. After a basic introduction to concepts or events, students work in groups to engage with what they’ve learned.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

These new technologies combine an evidence basis with automated messaging, often via texting, and personalized information to respond to questions in real time. To build their knowledge base, chatbots must first be linked up with requisite data sources, such as a school’s information system.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tract is a new way to inspire students to become lifelong learners. It focuses on student growth rather than state or international standards (it does meet them–just don’t look for that in the detail). Students engage through tasks, projects, and peer interaction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Unfortunately, so are school budget restrictions, unmanageable workloads and aging (not to mention underperforming) classroom technology, to name just a few concerns. it was crucial to create a checklist specifying what the new technology should accomplish.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2020

Before our eyes, we are watching districts and schools valiantly roll out remote learning plans to support all students during extended closures. Throughout this ordeal, we must be patient, understanding, and flexible as teachers and administrators, with little to no training in this area, do their best to provide an education to students. As such, educators are in need of ideas that can be implemented without the use of technology.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions.

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Benchmark Education

MAY 4, 2016

A New World of Technology—in Classrooms, Around the Globe. In this era of markedly different standards, shifts in core content, and high stakes tests, the bar for our students and for us as educators is significantly higher. The goal: ensuring students are college ready, career ready, AND new world ready. So, how do we best prepare our students for college? Why Use Technology in the Classroom? Technology holds huge promise, but has it delivered?

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? Busch's student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast Directors," the “iPad Consultants," the “Makerspace Mentors," and the “Cyber Squad." Laura Busch) How Students Apply.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

The end of the school year is a time when both students and teachers alike are distracted by thoughts of vacation, sleeping in, and no deadlines. Many of these, educators would love to teach but “just don’t have time for “, even though they align well with broad goals of preparing students for college and career. It includes certificates of achievement, badges at the completion of units, and a classroom tracking poster to show how students are progressing.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in parental engagement that can be correlated to the implementation of digital platforms and applications. Student information systems and automated messages are what I consider to be the first stage in the evolution of parental engagement, or version 1.0.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He is a great listener, an amazing team player and he’s always looking out for the best interest of students.” He was improving himself because he promised he was going to work on behalf of the students and their families in Meriden,” she said. “He Teaching experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

If there is a trait above all others that I want to imbue into my students, it is curiosity. ” The first step toward reaching that goal would be opening their minds to fascinating bits and pieces of knowledge, be they about computer games or nature. Renowned linguist, philosopher, historian, and scientist, Noam Chomsky says it this way: “ Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/econ for more information and remember to tweet out your pics about how you teach your students using #PowerofEcon. Web 3D: Students Using OpenSim Reflect on the Pressing Issues that We All Ask About Using Virtual Worlds. We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

MORE BETTER WRITING Third Grade Students at Milton Public Schools use FlipGrid to record book reviews. They’re reading student work that’s more thoughtful, properly revised, and well researched, and they’re able to give efficient, effective feedback to each student. And writing students at every level who are inspired by engaging prompts and able to share, collaborate, and access support and informative texts are happier too.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 2, 2012

Yesterday I had the privilege of facilitating a Common Core and Project Based Learning professional development class for 7th-12th grade teachers. Build background knowledge with PBL To make sure we had the same knowledge base/foundation of PBL, we split into six groups to jigsaw these six topics: Define PBL Discuss misconceptions, and misconceptions #2 PBL benefits and Does PBL Lead to Higher Student Achievement?:

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue.

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