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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In this class, I mostly saw students following along closely, and taking notes. Most had the lecture slides up on their laptops or iPads, or were using paper notebooks and pens.

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5 Things to teach to develop cyber-savvy students

Neo LMS

Students should only use computers, laptops, tablets or phones that are protected. Text messages and direct messages on social media websites, emails and voice calls are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to phishing methods and students need to learn how to identify potential scams and avoid them.

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Student Disengagement Has Soared Since the Pandemic. Here’s What Lectures Look Like Now

Edsurge

That students are more distracted than ever by their devices—the laptops, smartphones and iPads that just about everyone in this class has out on their desks. But I think you will probably see some social media up on their computers, probably a lot of texting with other people. But it’s more than that.

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21st Century School — How Technology Is Changing Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tablets, laptops, educational gaming software, and smartphones allow schools to: Personalize the learning experience. Increase student engagement and collaboration through social media, simulations, and games. Higher Education Has Changed, Too.

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Survey: Daily classroom edtech use on the rise

eSchool News

Laptops are most commonly used (86 percent), while other technologies include educational apps (58 percent), 3D printers (21 percent), and social media (41 percent, up from 32 percent in 2016).

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

Edsurge

Bill Fitzgerald While Blaine is a fictional student, the technology that’s tracking him is real, and actually in use in some school systems, part of a growing set of tools that leave data trails about students throughout the day. As soon as a school-provided laptop is opened, there are multiple ways students can be surveilled.

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Educators Share What’s Working in Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

DMPS distributed nearly 21,000 laptop computers to students throughout Des Moines during two weeks in mid-April. Des Moines Public Schools distributed nearly 21,000 laptop computers to students during two weeks in mid-April. Student Engagement and Academic Rigor. And she’s the norm, not the exception.

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