eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

These visual representations enhance the learning environment and provide valuable reference points for students throughout the school year. With features like touchscreen interactivity and multimedia integration, interactive whiteboards enhance classroom collaboration and foster visual learning.

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Tools Differentiated Instruction Flipped Classroom Software 52

Linways Technologies

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the present scenario, we should support our teachers to adapt to this new online learning environment. The institution is in the living room, or inside a laptop. We have previously published articles that help teachers to adapt to online teaching, and improve student engagement. You can refer to those if you want here.

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LMS Assessment Laptops EdTech 119

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The initiative addresses home connectivity inequalities, more commonly referred to as “the homework gap.” Personal hotspots, which allow students to connect a laptop or tablet with a cellular data connection, have been the most popular solution because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. “We

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

In order to run a group, librarians set up the space for group learning and make laptops available when needed. The library chooses which free online classes it will support based on local needs, like GED completion, registered nursing exam preparation, academic writing and public speaking.

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MOOC Libraries Online Learning Learning 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The boys, who she refers to as her grandsons, or “takoja” in Lakota, are her nephew’s biological children. It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” Hidalgo’s son, meanwhile, struggled to complete virtual class assignments without a cell phone or laptop.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 136

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

From the Trough of Disillusionment Toward the Slope of Enlightenment: Blended Learning. Another phrase that often gets thrown in the mix is “blended learning.” K–12 blended learning is at its simplest, the mix of online learning and brick-and-mortar schools with teachers.

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Personalized Learning Competency Based Learning Blended Learning EdTech 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. I’m not referring to the uses of tech in sports, but funding. Educational technology trends.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology. Activity-Based Learning. References & Citations.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

. — On most afternoons, Jeremiah Smith, founder of an afterschool and summer program called the Rosedale Freedom Project, can be found sitting side-by-side with his students as they peer at laptops, trying to get through their assignments. The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity.

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Edmentum Education Course Online Learning 111

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

During “ Learning with Google ,” a free online learning event for educators, Google shared a lot of updates to our favorite Google products. Learn more about all the Google tools available for teachers and students in Google from A to Z: The Google Glossary for Teachers !

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Google Chromebook Android Education 101

Shake Up Learning

JULY 7, 2020

Whether Chromebooks are a new addition to your school, you’ve recently gone 1:1 in the classroom, or you’ve been using them for years and you want to make the most of technology for your learners… The Chromebook Infused Classroom is a resource you will want to refer to again and again. Are Chromebooks required for this book?

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Chromebook Classroom Blended Learning Google 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

And here’s why it’s a problem: When Providence’s teachers meet in teams to discuss student progress, they sit around tables with their laptops, logging into various systems, looking at PDF reports that show student performance data. Right now, in most schools, that’s just a dream. We’re the buyer and there are tons of companies out there.

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Data Report System Laptops 87

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Kent opened her laptop to show the dashboard that tracks her students. She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class. During the interview, Bramante sat beside her laptop, awaiting an upcoming “discussion-based assessment” with one of her students.

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Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Because of these new technologies used in education during the pandemic, today, students who are home on extended illness-related absences, those who are traveling, or those who are otherwise unable to attend in-person school don’t have to worry about missing entire days or weeks of learning.

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Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

She leaned in toward her laptop and looked at a sentence that read, “Bake me a cake.” Advocates of online learning say programs like UPSTART, which is free for most families, may increase access to educational opportunities, which can be critical to ensuring the youngest learners don’t start behind and stay behind.

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Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 152

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2020

have announced transitions to online learning, they can’t definitively answer many of these questions, nor can they say when and if students will return to campus. It’s interesting to watch online instruction debuted as a solution, but the sweep of all of this reveals inequality in all its ugliness,’’.

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Guidelines Report Laptops Online Learning 142

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Let me pause and say that, as I prepared these remarks, I weighed whether or not I wanted to extend the Snidely Whiplash reference and refer to anti-cheating software as the Dudley Do-Right of ed-tech — that bumbling, incompetent Mountie, who was somehow seen as the hero. Guilty until TurnItIn proves you innocent.

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Software Data Company Laptops 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

While Menard tries to teach all students how to manage their emotions and helps some in small groups, she often refers kids with more difficult issues to free therapy provided on campus by a local mental health agency. Still, some parents don’t let their kids participate in the therapy or forget to take advantage of it. Don’t be like me.”.

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Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. You can log on and see what your kids are learning, how they’re doing,” she explained. Sodexo?” — referring to the testing and cafeteria behemoths.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

With four thoughtful and articulate education thinkers, my job will be to help them describe their alternative views to the current narratives that drive much of the impassioned debate around teaching and learning worldwide.

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Blackboard Laptops Study Assessment 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

He finds online learning boring, but says he is “learning a lot.” In September, online learning got off to a rocky start. But even though Marc found online learning boring, he said, “I’m learning a lot.” With math, he could turn to an online calculator for help. Credit: Marc.

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Online Learning Study Report Accessibility 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.”

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