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Measuring Student Engagement with Digital Tools

ViewSonic Education

Most teachers and experts would state that student engagement is mandatory for learners to fulfill their potential, but actually measuring student engagement has always been tricky. It is widely accepted that the higher the level of student engagement, the better. But what exactly is student engagement?

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Edtech integration, student engagement are top goals for new school year

eSchool News

The survey of more than 1,100 educators from across North America highlights back-to-school excitement, challenges, student engagement, and technology usage. The survey of more than 1,100 educators from across North America highlights back-to-school excitement, challenges, student engagement, and technology usage.

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10 Good Tools to Create Free Surveys and Polls

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of handy tools to use to create surveys and polls. These tools are simple and easy to use and offer a wide variety of features that enable you to design different types of surveys and polls. Zoho Survey enables you to easily create your own surveys.

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Getting up to Speed: Teacher Prep and Technology Integration

Ask a Tech Teacher

We know technology is a challenge for veteran teachers. What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. The student today learns much differently than students did five years ago.

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What’s Next for Teaching and Learning? 6 Key Trends in K-12 Education

Speaker: Trenton Goble, Chris Giles, and Cat Flippen

Working with Hanover Research, Instructure surveyed educators and parents in the United States on technology use and its impact on student learning, factors that influence student engagement and metrics for student success. Technology is no longer a “nice-to-have.” The consensus?

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

The number of American teachers using games in classrooms–particularly with younger students–has doubled over the past six years, according to a large survey released last week that measures national ed-tech use. The full report offered a variety of reasons for why students grade 6-12 see value in online educational videos.

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Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use

Digital Promise

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. New rubric guides classroom technology use. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use.