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12 Ways to Update Your Online Presence

Ask a Tech Teacher

Update your online profile –on your blog, your gravatar, FB, X/Twitter, professional groups, your PLN. Use images and videos. Surveys are unanimous: Pictures and videos draw in readers. Here’s a short list of items that won’t take long to accomplish. The ones you read last year, consider a reminder!

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3 Levels of Connectivity K–12 Schools Should Consider

EdTech Magazine

Video, Virtual Reality and Other Rich Media Use. Video has proven to be an effective learning tool as well. According to a ViewSonic survey , 75 percent of teachers reported that media improves student engagement, and 72 percent reported that students used video material outside of class to learn on their own.

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K–12 Videoconferencing Offers New Opportunities for Understaffed School Districts

EdTech Magazine

In a Gallup survey of K–12 district superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the number of new teacher candidates is decreasing; 39 percent said quality is also declining. Whether teachers or students are out of school, modern video devices can help classrooms meet in the virtual space. . The number of teachers in the U.S.

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How to Start Class with Opening Questions

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Leigh Zeitz from the University of Northern Iowa surveys his students. Blog = [link] Twitter = @zeitz. But when you surveyed your students at the end of the semester, did this have and it really did. That can be adapted for all ages.

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A Teacher’s Best Evaluator

Ask a Tech Teacher

If a teacher wants a good picture of how teaching impacts students, I suggest using a Google Form survey or Microsoft forms. Another approach is to use Flipgrid if students are comfortable responding through a video or audio recording. He can be found on Twitter @T4edtech, Linkedin , and on his YouTube Channel Transformative Edtech.

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CoSN 2019: How Teachers Can Revolutionize the Future of Education

EdTech Magazine

JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued COSN 2019 coverage! A preview of the CoSN 2019 IT Leadership survey — which will be released during the conference — noted 95 percent of respondents said digital inequity was a significant concern in their classrooms. Give Students the Wheel to Their Own Learning.

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Kids’ Media Use Is Up. Blame the Pandemic — And TikTok.

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Robb points out that the survey, which had about 1,300 total respondents, was completed in September 2021, just as many students were returning to in-person school—in some cases, for the first time in two years. According to the report, kids prefer watching videos on platforms like TikTok and YouTube to any other media.