Smartphones Meet Adult Education
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
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Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 16, 2024
The key is to invest in technology that not only meets your current educational needs but also has the potential to adapt and evolve as your career progresses. Smartphone Choices A smartphone is almost as essential as a laptop in the modern landscape.
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Meeting Organization with Evernote
Educational Technology Guy
APRIL 1, 2014
Meetings, meetings, meetings. For meetings, it is indispensable. Here''s how: I clip the meeting/appointment slot from Outlook into Evernote. This way, everything related to the meeting is in one place. I use a template for meeting notes (see below) and copy it into this note.
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Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 18, 2015
The accepted dichotomy in this study and the media seems to be 1) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are banned, or 2) doing low-level knowledge work while smartphones are present (and, presumably, distracting). students, particularly those who already find that traditional schooling doesn’t meet their needs very well.
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CamScanner - great app to scan paper docs using smartphone camera
Educational Technology Guy
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Take a picture of important documents, meeting agendas, whiteboards, and more and save them as PDF files for future reference and use. This app turns your smartphone into a scanner and document processor. You can add tags to the files too, and search text in the scanned picture.
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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. Teachers: I’d love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments.
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TCEA 2018: Educators Meet in Austin to Discuss the Future of the Classroom
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2018
TCEA 2018: Educators Meet in Austin to Discuss the Future of the Classroom. You can prepare for this year’s conference by browsing through the sessions on the official TCEA program overview , or download the smartphone app to use daily at the show. meghan.bogardu…. Mon, 01/15/2018 - 10:32.
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12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Today: 12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with students, parents, meetings, grades, reports, reviews, and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. If you also read WordDreams , these are also posted there with some adaptations to writers.
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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse
ViewSonic Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
The metaverse and its ability to offer immersive learning could serve as another means of helping both students and teachers to create a successful learning environment that meets contemporary educational standards and prepares students for modern life.
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What is a Stylus Pen?
ViewSonic Education
JULY 15, 2022
This includes various digital devices like touchscreen computer monitors , smartphones, or tablets. Therefore, you’ll see passive pens being used mainly with interactive flat panel displays and smartphones for more basic needs. This can be especially beneficial when it comes to participating or presenting during meetings. .
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
It is a small, wireless sensor that pairs with smartphones or tablets to gather data such as acceleration, pressure, magnetic field, and temperature. The PocketLab. What’s It Like? . PocketLab is the latest in a series of efforts to make sensors affordable for classroom use.
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The Easiest No-coding Way to Build an Education App
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Jotform works on all platforms (including tablets, desktop computers, and smartphones) and can be shared via a link, QR Code, and embed (as well as other options). Once you’ve completed the app, it can be downloaded onto any smartphone, tablet, or computer, shared to your social media, or pushed out via a link or QR code.
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Explained: How LED Projectors Work
ViewSonic Education
AUGUST 30, 2022
This technology plays a big role in the miniaturization of our electronic devices, from smartphones to 4K TV screens, up to the headlights of our cars. The instant power on saves time in meetings, and the LED lifespan leads out for a reduced TCO over time. Travel and leisure.
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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Today, teachers and students have complete access to smartphones, tablets, or laptops in all classes. Instead, students and teachers can meet online and continue their work through files available on the cloud. Those who are able will meet in person, while others attend virtually through the class videoconference portal.
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Upgrading Family Communications
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 14, 2020
With that being said, it is essential for school leaders to meet their stakeholders where they are at and engage them in two-way communications. Yes, there are always a few that will not adopt new technology, but smartphone statistics show that 95% of adults with school children have at least one smartphone at home.
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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education
Edsurge
DECEMBER 6, 2023
There are 350 million children below age six around the world who are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential simply because of where they were born. India's population, including vulnerable households, has a high smartphone penetration rate, with 75% of households having access to smartphones.
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9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 14, 2022
For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with students, parents, meetings, grading, and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. New readers: Consider these body armor in the tech battle so you can jubilantly overcome rather than dramatically succumb. 9 Ways to Update Your Online Presence.
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Epson Announces Availability of Classroom and Meeting Room Projectors
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
The PowerLite ® E20 , X49 , W49 , 118 , 119W , 982W , 992F , and 1288 range from budget-friendly, network-ready classroom projectors to wireless, portable meeting room solutions. Availability and Product Details. The PowerLite E20, X49, W49, 118, 119W, and 982W are available now.
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How to Create a Paperless Classroom
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 19, 2023
They don’t need to meet in a physical location or call each other on the phone. Encourage students to meet in study groups via virtual rooms like Google Hangouts. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? quick methods like texting are fine. And then charge.
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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 21, 2019
I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. They wouldn’t miss anything if I started them in first or second grade.
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How To Use Time Tracking to Enhance Project Management
EdTech4Beginners
AUGUST 23, 2022
If all your employees own a smartphone, a mobile time clock app is a good fit. For example, the geolocation feature of the smartphone comes in handy here. It could be a personal smartphone, telephone computer, or tablet. Good time-tracking software is the one that meets your exact needs and requirements.
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10 Tips for Teaching Remotely
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 21, 2020
Here’s what I currently use to teach from home or can easily arrange: Have necessary apps on iPads and smartphones. This includes your LMS, virtual meeting tool, cloud accounts, email, scan, social media, and sharing. These are for larger groups (like a book club meeting).
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11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence (copy)
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 11, 2021
For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, teaching, meeting with grade-level teams, chatting with parents, attending conferences (to stay UTD), and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. They allow you to jubilantly overcome rather than dramatically succumb. Your choice.
What Are CASEL Competencies and How Technology Can Help
ViewSonic Education
JUNE 28, 2022
Computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones all provide digital communication tools, while digital whiteboards allow for effective written communication, even in collaborative situations. Seeing how different moods may impact learning experience, educators can tailor their approach to meet the needs of that moment.
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Power Up Your Spaces
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 27, 2018
If you were to go back in time and pinpoint when disruption began to take off, I would wager that it correlates with the proliferation of the smartphone. Had it not been for the smartphone their innovative apps might never have come to fruition or experienced immense scalability as they have. respectively by 2020.
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What Is a Digital Whiteboard?
ViewSonic Education
MARCH 2, 2022
Put simply, it’s a whiteboard you can use on a computer, smartphone, tablet, or any compatible electronic device. All that you share in a classroom or during a meeting, others can view in real-time or later online. It facilitates business meetings, project updates or letting absent students view materials presented during class.
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Meet the 83-Year-Old App Developer Who Says Edtech Should Better Support Seniors
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
I found out that it’s very hard for them to use smartphones and it’s really hard to find any apps that’s appealing to the senior generation. So that was the first area I realized I could help on. The best way is to break down the barriers is by having more senior citizens engaged in computer technologies.
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What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
Edsurge
MARCH 11, 2024
Gen Z students typically carry multiple devices (think laptop or tablet, smartphone, headphones) that need juice. As academic libraries add more services and reconfigure their facilities to meet user demand for flexible and multipurpose spaces, print collections increasingly take a back seat to people, especially at main campus libraries.
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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 12, 2024
I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. Not only have I used MAD-Learn for the first global collaborative app-building project, I love having my students build together and host a "shark tank competition."
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Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When Students Aren’t Using Them
Edsurge
JANUARY 16, 2024
And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. EdSurge: I was struck by your point in your book that we are never away from our smartphones even when we try to put them away. But I’ll admit I have done that thing where I’m in a Zoom meeting but also checking my email. Can’t we do both?
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9 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 25, 2017
These days, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. Bring the latest version of Google Maps on your smartphone or iPad, complete with audio directions. Join the crowd around the outlet.
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11 Ways to Update Your Online Presence
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 17, 2020
For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, teaching, meeting with grade-level teams, chatting with parents, attending conferences (to stay UTD), and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. They allow you to jubilantly overcome rather than dramatically succumb. Your choice.
Review: Yamaha YVC-1000 Speakerphone Gives K–12 Collaboration an Audio Boost
EdTech Magazine
MAY 15, 2018
Bluetooth capability supports wireless connectivity to a smartphone or tablet. When I waved an Android smartphone near the base station, it synced up in a few seconds via near-field communication. Thereafter, I could route audio from the smartphone through the YVC-1000, which provided deep and rich sounds. Tweet Text 3.
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Kindergartners need Technology too!
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 12, 2019
I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. Today, my teacher colleagues tell me kids arrive at school already comfortable in the use of iPads and smartphones, doing movements like swipe, squeeze, and flick better than most adults. They wouldn’t miss anything if I started them in first or second grade.
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6 keys to producing effective digital content
eSchool News
AUGUST 31, 2020
Educators must embrace digital video tools and platforms as one of the many tools in their teacher toolkits to meet their students where they are, engage students in the ways that they learn, and build learning communities in the classroom as well as remotely. Don’t let this new reality overwhelm or discourage you.
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Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning?
ViewSonic Education
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
DE&I efforts can also be aided by the fact that the metaverse allows students to meet other students with their own various preferences, capabilities and challenges to overcome. This can also be a place for students with different needs to meet in a more inclusive environment. . The Future of Metaverse Education .
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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Wouldn’t you love to experiment with 5G on your smartphone or play with Samsung’s foldable phone? With the App Inventor program from MIT, students use block-based tools to build apps on a smartphone. The course is designed for a year long class that meets 5 days per week, though schools implement it in a variety of ways.
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How to Use Technology in Your Faculty Meetings
Gaggle Speaks
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Meanwhile, staff meetings often lag behind this tech transformation. Do you struggle with active participation in your staff meetings? If so, it might be time to incorporate some technology to drive more interaction and interest during faculty meetings. Highlight two or three tech tips at each staff meeting.
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My Story, Our Impact: How BakerRipley Connects Families to Opportunities
Digital Promise
MAY 16, 2019
We provide these services in Spanish because we truly believe that by meeting people where they are in their current stage of development, we can meet their needs quickly and have the most impact. The work hasn’t been easy.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 12, 2016
Now, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. Install Waze on your smartphone or iPad (here’s my review of Waze ). Many of these can be used on an iPhone, smartphone, or iPad.
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World Productivity Day is Monday June 20th - here is how I use Evernote to be highly productive
Educational Technology Guy
JUNE 6, 2022
My daily work devices are a Chromebox, Chromebook and Pixel 5 smartphone. I create tasks in different notes as needed, from meeting notes to project work, and can see them all on my Home page. It is available on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and the Web. There is also a Tasks widget for Home so you can see your tasks in one place.
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How to Digitize School Historic Videos
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 2, 2023
Therefore, any such archive often contains a mixture of materials that are relevant to the school’s past and present, such as photographs, yearbooks, student publications (newspapers or magazines), administrative records, meeting minutes, curricular materials, and artifacts from significant events.
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Fantastic Apps I Use Every Day
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
I’ve also added some of my favorite new productivity tools for my smartphone, iPad, and a few new ones for my Mac. Their flexible, self-paced courses are available for graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or for continuing education units that meet your state requirements.
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Why your young students love e-learning
Neo LMS
MAY 2, 2017
Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. 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.
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