Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

Digital devices, especially smartphones and tablets, have become an appendage for schools. Instead, they would rather stick their heads into their smartphones and stay glued to social media or texting their friends. It’s a smartphone that your students are using. But it is not their fault.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Embracing digital learning in primary and secondary education offers several compelling advantages as we examine the importance of education in the digital age. This includes the integration of devices like computers and tablets, educational software, interactive multimedia content, and internet-based resources into the curriculum.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 3, 2019

From chalkboards to digital whiteboards (including ViewSonic’s ViewBoard ) and from notebooks to tablets, it has become clear that the very fabric of education has had to adapt to the times in order to keep students engaged and properly learning. Through his capacity as a social media influencer, he answered the questions below.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This was surprising because I had never had contact with any companies on social media before, and didn’t think what I had created would be good enough for them to share on their professional account. I prefer to use it instead of a computer because I have easier access to the tablet than the library computers. Tisha Poncio.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2022

And with the emergence of streaming and the era of kids watching videos on tablets and on their parents phones, there’s been an explosion of content on YouTube and other social media platforms aimed at little ones. So what’s the impact of all these streaming videos on young minds?

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Today’s generation is inclining more toward becoming social media influencers, stock market traders, etc. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. When it comes to financial reasons, it should never be finance that eliminates somebody’s access to post secondary education.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. There can also be a temptation for children to use other technologies whilst viewing content, such as utilising social media and temporary blocks on other tools during flipped learning activities should be considered.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The ubiquitous presence of digital devices and technology tools in education, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones, allows students to access a wealth of educational resources and multimedia content. Coding platforms, such as Scratch and Code.org, promote digital literacy and computational thinking.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

" Tagged on: March 17, 2017 770 Apple iPad Air Coming To Cullman County Elementary Schools | Cullman Today → At $340,000, kindergarten, first & second-grade students get 'ultra-modern' tablets. That's a lot of computers. million records going up for sale on the Dark Web.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

The rest of this post contains secondary rationale for why I am not attending the International Society for Technology in Education convention in Denver this weekend. By following the #NotatISTE16 hashtag on Twitter and related social media, you can learn vicariously through attendees who are posting their takeaways from the convention.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

The rest of this post contains secondary rationale for why I am not attending the International Society for Technology in Education convention in Denver this weekend. By following the #NotatISTE16 hashtag on Twitter and related social media, you can learn vicariously through attendees who are posting their takeaways from the convention.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 12, 2017

Traditionally, multiple health and child development establishments have been advising parents to avoid exposing their children to screens and media tools such as TV, video games, computer, video, smartphones and touchscreen tablets to name a few. Not taking their tablets during outdoor activity time go a long way. *

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. The academy used social media to recruit its first class.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

For many years, educators like myself have turned to the education community on Twitter and other social media platforms to network, find inspiration and share fresh ideas for how to spark active learning in our classrooms.

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TeacherCast

MAY 27, 2019

Create Animated Gif's and Animated PNG's to share on Social Media. One of the great features of ScreenFlow is the ability to record directly from your mobile device or tablet. When you are finished, I always back up my projects onto a secondary hard drive. Record from your iPhone or iPad in HD. How to Edit.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Another aspect is the gradual disintegration of computing , as we move from desktops to laptops to tablets, phones, cameras, trackers, and gewgaws attached to various locations in our spaces and on our bodies. From non-edutech trends.

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MindShift

JUNE 4, 2021

“When it’s not face-to-face, kids can be a little more vulnerable and a little more specific about the feedback they give, because sometimes in sixth grade, it’s a social thing,” said Reeder. With direct messaging, students could ask questions they might not feel comfortable vocalizing in front of the class or typing in the chat.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

Young people huddle over tablets, fiber optic cables run along the ceilings and a cybersecurity lab occupies the basement. Photo: Bekah McNeel/The Hechinger Report. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google.

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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 academy used social media to recruit its first class. And they think this is how they can do it. This is a perfect fit for them.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“A Kayak for Credentials” – Inside Higher Ed on Credential Engine ’s plans for a big database on post-secondary credentials. But Do Tablet Programs Work? Two different opinions on WIkipedia : “How Social Media Endangers Knowledge” by Hossein Derakhshan in Wired. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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