eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The game teaches kids about passwords, identity theft, scams, phishing, cyber bullying, sexting, social media issues and much more. This has become more critical as students use laptops, mobile devices, and home computers routinely. There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in educational systems.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

ClassDojo is a free online system that helps teachers promote positive behavior in their classroom by letting them track and share student progress and positive behaviors and areas of concern. It''s easy to use and many teachers who use it have seen positive outcomes from using it with their students. To date, over 3.5 To date, over 3.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The Social Institute , whose mission is to empower millions of students to navigate their social world — including social media and technology — in positive, healthy, and high-character ways, released its 2024 Student Insights Report: How Social Media, Tech, and Current Events Impact Student Well-Being.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think something that's overlooked in a lot of educational systems is your ability to have a discussion and hold an argument about your work,” says Tey. The student developers have visited local high schools and put the word out on social media to get teachers to try their tool.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class. Most had the lecture slides up on their laptops or iPads, or were using paper notebooks and pens.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That’s something that Josh Flaherty can attest to in his classroom at Community Lab School, part of the Albemarle County Public Schools system in Virginia. Yes, they can play video games or use social media, he adds, “but they're not necessarily good at things they're not familiar with.”

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 20, 2016

It’s about mobilizing the learning experience, from being merely seated in a classroom discussing matters with your teacher or stuck with a laptop at home answering online assessments, to taking an assessment while in a cab. Learners are more motivated and engaged when they learn using their mobile devices, and encourages social learning.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Use Social Media and Events to Keep Parents in the Know. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 07/30/2018 - 11:28.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. Many teachers have a phone jail system, where students submit their phones before class and collect them when it ends. However, we should also take into account the fallacies in the current school system.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2019

If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily. Upgrade yours to the max your system will take. ” From Andrew over at Andrew’s View of the Week : Also check the age of any physical computers/devices you own – desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, etc. Change your browser.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Commit to Systemic Planning – Before You Purchase. Commit to Leveraging Social Media and Telling Your Great Story!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

And today’s tech environment, with easy-to-use tools and social media, makes it easier than ever for entrants to reach global learners and sell their products or services, so that anyone with a good idea and a laptop can get started virtually overnight.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When students want to do quick research on a topic, look up a word, run a calculation, or review a concept, they can hop on a cell phone much faster than logging into a Chromebook or laptop. Finally, cell phones have become a small version of a computer be it a laptop, Chromebook, or iPad (especially an iPad).

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Schools raced to distribute laptops, provide free-and-reduced lunch to students in need and offer childcare to essential workers. The present crisis is a test of the system. Use social media to highlight the great work of students and teachers with others in the community.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In some educational systems where bringing devices to schools is a school offence, there has to be a change. And in the worst-case scenario where a device gets infected, there has to be solutions to disinfect devices without deleting personal files and system settings. Funding Practicality comes into play when discussing BYOD.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? In 2010, Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia was caught— and successfully sued when it was discovered that school officials were taking photos of a student through a school-issued laptop.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2015

This ends up resulting in the formation of rules and policies that severely restrict or prohibit student use of mobile technology and social media as tools to support and/or enhance learning. His main fear was a concern that students would be constantly off task texting or checking their social media accounts. Here we go!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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. Doug Levin Blaine’s district provides every student with a computer, so he opens his laptop to start his work.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Tablets are the number one choice for classroom learning, as they are somewhere in the middle ground between the reliability of laptops and the mobility of smartphones. It’s easy for students to text with friends, play games, watch funny videos, browse social media channels or even answer calls.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2024

Then the shuttle bus connecting the suburban campus with the nearest station on the public transportation system started running late or not showing up at all. The private, nonprofit school had been placed on probation by its accreditors because of its shaky finances. That was one of the things that made us feel like they were giving up.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2015

they have laptops. Microadjustments to the current system are insufficient. If you’re afraid of change, social media is a distraction and a risk. We can’t do what that other school is doing because… they are bigger and have more resources. they are smaller and are more nimble. they have parent support.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

My interest in this technology stems from the promise both companies make: This is the tablet that will replace your laptop. In my eyes, both Microsoft and Apple are not only looking to replace the laptop, but to actually merge it with a tablet to create something that is the best of both worlds. So did either succeed? In Summary….

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2023

A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS). All students can access the information anytime and from anywhere with the help of the Internet and a reading device of their choice, be it a laptop, tablet or a smartphone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2017

iPad, Chromebook, Laptop, Netbook, or Smartphone. Almost as bad is using one of those big clunky laptops. apps for Twitter/FB/G+/LI–or whatever your social media of choice is. Hackers love taking advantage of free WiFi systems to find their next victim. Don’t attend a conference with a paper and pencil–really.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 9, 2018

They also had smart boards, laptops, Google Classroom, and all sorts of subscriptions to student online resources. This school also has laptops available and Google Classroom, but not smart boards. This school had a lot of resources and spent money wisely. The school I switched to this past year is also intentionally diverse.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2020

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, California’s largest public school system, Superintendent Austin Beutner announced in mid-May that “just about every one” of the district’s students had a device, thanks to a “procurement team working around the clock to scour the globe and find devices.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. They require a student show photo identification to their laptop camera before the test begins. How are they feeling?

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Research shows that most youth use the Internet to view media outlets and to communicate with friends through social media applications. In the education system, digital citizenship is disseminated across the board, with no federal or state requirements in reference to a standard curriculum.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2021

If you change the school education system, how would you change it? Kids should be able to use social media supervised or unsupervised. Describe a life without electronics – no smartphones, tablets, laptops… Describe a hole in the garden. Social media creates fake relationships and opinions.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you need to have a desktop or laptop to get the most out of the platform, or would a smartphone work best? What social media do you use regularly for communicating with your students and parents? What social media do you use regularly for communicating with your students and parents? Join the Community.

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techlearning

MAY 31, 2018

There is a link to every lesson in the lesson agenda accessible from her laptop, phone, or any device. What digital and analog organizational system do you use? OneNote Notebook The actual lessons themselves are all stored in her digital notebook using OneNote. Apple, Google, & Microsoft.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Me Conecto para Aprender aims to close the gap in access to information technologies and promote their use across Chile by providing all of the country’s 7grade students a laptop computer, a year of internet access, and high-quality digital resources that encourage the use of the computer. We look forward to the success of this partnership.”

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 3, 2018

More and more of today’s parents are digital natives who grew up with laptops, tablets and smartphones as part of their lives, so unlike previous generations, they often don’t need schools to explain to them the basics of how educational technology works. Be clear about what protection the school provides. That being said…. Don’t be alarmist.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. As we took notes on our $2000 laptops, those stats seemed too far off. Students are stressed out.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

A digital learning platform can be a learning management system (LMS) or learning content management systems (LCMS). All students can access the information anytime and from anywhere with the help of the Internet and a reading device of their choice, be it a laptop, tablet or a smartphone.

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