Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. For example, YouTube, social media, news websites, even self-help videos/blogs which are present in every possible genre. Seminars held online, are called webinars.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 18, 2017

The game changers that support 21st Century Technology and Learning are cloud computing, more connectivity, cheaper devices that enable social networks, and AI enabled extreme personalization. Engaging in collaboration and not knowing the outcome at the outset and being able to manage that ambiguity is important to teach our kids.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Vivek Singh and his colleague, Ilya Mishra, are new contributors to Ask a Tech Teacher who specialize in online learning and educational technology (more on Ilya’s bio below). social media or school intranet portal, etc. She focuses on articles about online learning and educational technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

-Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Many middle schoolers are spending as much (if not more) time online as they do in classrooms, often in spaces not designed for them. More than a third of youth under 13 are using social media , most often through apps created for those over 13. Related: OPINION: Children today are facing a mental health crisis.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 24, 2016

The platform is built for social media, therefore, users can like, share and comment on articles. We lead the way in Social Collaborative Learning (SCL). SCL blends informal and formal learning in a social and collaborative setting to drive daily engagement and effective outcomes.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2020

When once distance learning courses were frowned upon and considered to be inferior to traditional campus based degrees, in recent years this opinion has been completely overturned. As early as 2001, Thomas Russell's No Significant Difference studies gave a first indication of the effectiveness of distance and online learning methods.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Online education was supposed to provide access to quality education for those who can’t attend or afford traditional college.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 17, 2017

Usually online courses are offered through an LMS , and all the good ones have this feature, but check just to be sure. Q3: Will I learn just as much as from a face-to-face course? However, the quality of learning is highly determined by the student’s engagement and the quality of the content.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Since the platform incorporates personalized learning, teachers can deliver their lessons with much greater flexibility and give each student the personal experience they need to succeed. Additionally, Brightspace includes real-time learning analytics to provide teachers with engagement data that can help them improve student outcomes.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 3, 2012

. - From Pinecrest Preparatory Middle-High Administration Letter to Parents , February 22, 2012 When I first read and watched a news story about this Florida charter school''s letter to parents encouraging them to get their kids off of Facebook because of the problems social media activities were causing during the school day, it got me thinking.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

These methods can be diverse: face-to-face, flipped classroom, eLearning, remote learning, and more, but they all require technology to reap the benefits of a connected learning environment. Additionally, they allow for broadcasting to social media and screen sharing during live meetings and classroom sessions.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Started in 2015, the Proving Ground program helps school districts leverage data to design, plan, implement and test interventions to improve learning outcomes. The list of students contacted was based on those who did not participate in online learning activities.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 8, 2012

It was exciting to be part of a program whose purpose is to reach an audience including "EPLT/Faculty of Education stakeholders (students, prospective students – especially at the graduate level, faculty members, prospective academic and/or social media contacts, and those interested in educational technology & social media in education)."

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Our education system produces inequitable outcomes for students — particularly those who identify as low income and/or as a Black, Indigenous, or students of color. . Students are not really learning!”. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

She asked teachers what types of professional development they were interested in, gave them a range of choices (including webinars, discussion activities and online courses) and expected the teachers to clamor for the opportunities. I had worked a lot harder to get the same outcome,” Eaton said. They didn’t.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Our education system produces inequitable outcomes for students — particularly those who identify as low income and/or as a Black, Indigenous, or students of color. . Students are not really learning!”. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

The outcome of this session is an academic paper (yet to be finalised!). Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. Emerging pedagogies based on participatory and collaborative online learning were examined with current examples of learning space design using Web 2.0 Tensions between Web 2.0

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Yet much like the debate over the appropriate length of a remote school day , Claffey and others are asking a single, pressing question of administrators, fellow educators and even social media communities: Where are these numbers coming from? Where are they getting the research to say, ‘Here's 50 kids for one teacher’?” Claffey says.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We see lots of pilots to see what online learning can provide, and new willingness to try new things. Strong associations nationwide focus on outcomes for us all. We’ve got a lot of schools doing STEM labs and trying out new things that they didn’t before, like Augmented and Virtual Reality.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Use their learning preferences and technologies to decide how they will learn. Through Education 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The word ''education'' may also be an exclusive term, connoting formal affiliation with an academic institution, and thus inappropriate as a description for a lot of learning activity. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies. There has been a dramatic shift in the last decade.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

based Thrivist said its platform “enables schools to develop, deliver, and manage online learning and leverage learning analytics to improve outcomes,” according to the company, which notes that software is offered via a software-as-a-service model and is being used in more than 25 school districts. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

Most of the educational institutes today have adopted mobile learning into their learning ecosystems, benefiting students and teachers alike. Social Media in Learning. Who would have ever thought that social media would one day be accepted as part of the learning process? In 2017, 14.5%

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools. Leo , Tutor.com’s soon-to-come new academic support platform, is purpose-built from the ground up by learning experts, teachers, and web developers in collaboration with K-12 and higher-ed leaders.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 17, 2015

We can all benefit from collective wisdom, and one of the more effective uses of new online technologies is the opportunity to share our expertise and creativity with our colleagues. Most schools now have online learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Edmodo are just a few.

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Students and parents have also begun to turn to social media, providing feedback on their remote learning experiences on Twitter, TikTok and other sites. With so much confusion and anxiety, both education experts and parents are urging schools to make remote learning as simple as possible.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Online education has been touted as a way to increase access to education. But it’s increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, even as digital learning makes its way into more institutions’ offerings. This has all left us asking: Who does online education really serve?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Remember Edmodo?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Through assessment solutions, etextbooks help students analyze their progress and understand their progress in meeting their learning objectives. . Publishers can further enrich their etextbooks by adding social media features, thus opening windows for conversations with a wider audience. Blended Learning Approach.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The C-MOOC or Connectivist Massive Open Online Course was a free at the point of delivery online learning experience with no limits to the numbers who participated, and where 'students' could choose how, where and when they learnt. There is also a lot of energy being directed into transforming the education experience.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

One of the most important questions for educators in this century is whether technology can offer a transformational influence for learning. The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the flipped classroom, games based learning, social media and mobile learning - on the face of it - seems to herald a new dawn for education.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today’s classrooms have more devices, more educational software, more opportunities to differentiate learning based on various student needs, and educators are under more pressure to do more, preferably as fast as possible, with excellent results. In the meantime, an online microlearning approach is the best option.

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