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APRIL 27, 2018

But because she is legally blind, she had an added challenge of not being able to see the diagrams and notes projected in the lecture hall or assigned for homework. student at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2024

As educators, we understand that true learning happens when barriers are removed and diverse voices are amplified. Recently, we took the stage at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference to share our experiences designing accessible conferences and events. Image credit: Rebecca M.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. This change reflects both the advancements in technology and the increasing availability of information at their fingertips.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, technology can play a pivotal role in shaping the learning experience. Verizon is working to empower educators and students with cutting-edge tools essential for unlocking the full potential of education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2017

Technology continues to raise the bar of what is possible in education. As more schools discover the power and benefits of education technology, mobile devices such as Chromebooks, Macs and iPads in the classroom are becoming commonplace. Ridley School District: 1-to-1 iPad Program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The AI Revolution: Google’s Developers on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (60 Minutes) AI in the K-12 Classroom (AVID Open Access) Artificial Intelligence (U.S. Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. Here are a few good options to get you started.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To increase equity, you should set up your asynchronous learning environments to maximize accessibility. Extensive lecturing is not a good use of your time, or learners’ time, in synchronous online learning. At a minimum, you should break up lectures with polls or discussion prompts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. Our main goal is to give access to world-class technical education for folks who may not otherwise have it.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One of them was just listening to lectures, a core experience: “Play my next lecture.” People that can't normally get access to this kind of information will get access to it. What do you see as the future of voice technology in education? In education, it's already started to take off. More from AWS.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Unfortunately, across the board, educators have not been prepared to teach well with technology, let alone teach remotely with technology. In some teacher preparation programs, pre-service teachers are not provided with any opportunities to engage with technology in meaningful ways.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Offering a diverse catalog of award-winning college courses with cinematic lectures from top-rated instructors, Outlier by Savvas provides high school students multiple pathways to college and career. “We In support of the research, data was gathered from company applications, annual reports, media monitoring, and other public sources.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. Students now have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips, allowing for self-directed exploration and reinforcing classroom concepts. What are the educational technology trends in 2024?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

was free, and people had to pay at least $20 a month to get access to the state-of-the-art model. It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

In response, education technology companies have been quick to create products that attempt to replicate in-person teaching. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems. When would we encourage students to give a stranger access their webcam?

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

So does lacking reliable access to a computer. But even students who do have Wi-Fi and digital devices for schoolwork may not be able to fully participate in their courses if the technology they have is old, outdated or not powerful enough to handle the demands of today’s higher ed software and streaming services.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. Naturally, all this is causing concern among some educators, who see students off-loading the hard work of synthesizing information to AI at a pace never before possible.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

How does classroom video capture technology address this issue? This technology captures whatever is going on in the classroom and turns it into easily searchable and referenceable video content that students can access anywhere, anytime, on all their devices—which is one piece of the puzzle. Source: Echo360.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Using edtech in teaching, educators and school leaders can reduce environmental impact while enhancing student engagement and creativity. Rethinking teaching methods in the digital age Teaching methods have undergone significant transformation with the rise of educational technology.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Surveys of remote college students show that their top priorities are convenience and flexibility.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So how do you make that data accessible, relevant and maybe even fun? American University is one of 10 universities working with census data as part of the Opportunity Project’s fall technology development sprint, which focuses on decennial data accessibility. If you’re the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley?18 Stanford University, Google, Facebook, AT&T?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. MORE FROM EDTECH: How to keep accessibility in mind for the modern K–12 classroom. 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives. MORE FROM EDTECH: CSee how schools use virtual reality to improve assistive learning programs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

In most cases, what professors ask students to do outside the classrooms is watch video lectures, and Barba thinks that part of the flipped approach needs to go, and that professors are relying too much on such videos as a crutch. STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.”

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

And that goes for faculty members, too, who might now have access to new opportunities to teach remotely for institutions around the globe—and let colleges hire online faculty with attractive strengths who happen to live far away. As a result of the pandemic, remote teaching arrangements like these may have already started.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Today’s technologies, he notes, make it easier than ever to create, distribute, and navigate such a curriculum. “If His choice: modular learning. What is Course Hero?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Experts working to develop the new technology have noted three key areas where 5G will improve on the current 4G LTE networks that are used right now: increased device capacity, faster network speed and lower latency. . And with the race to 5G in full swing, educators are wondering what this network will mean for them. .

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. By designing instruction that meets the diverse needs of all learners, educators can help to create an environment that is welcoming and supportive for everyone.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We want it to be equitable—so it's accessible by all kids and not just kids who can afford it. But Socrates knew that having a conversation, a dialogue and experience, is so much better than being lectured at. How many times has your audience been lectured at and how much do they remember about the lectures they got?

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. For example, some students mistakenly assume that recorded lectures are “optional resources” rather than asynchronous assignments, Roeger says. Smith University.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. The problem is finding the will to pay for that, and to make high-quality education accessible.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. The hope is this isn’t going to be an ordinary class or lecture series for you,” Santos tells students in an introductory video within the MOOC. The science of psychology has a lot to say to people about how to live.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Key points: Edtech objectives and student engagement goals should drive technology selections Leveraging edtech for differentiated instruction A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 For more news on interactive learning, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Education today looks dramatically different from classrooms of just a decade ago.

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