eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Second is the need to create a 21 st century learning environment that is accessible for all students, encourages engagement and collaboration, and can be more easily tailored for different learning levels and needs. What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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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. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Yet, in an age when students are accessing a vast array of resources on computers, tablets, and mobile devices, some school districts are still hesitant to take their assessments online. Homegrown online assessments prove invaluable to one district. It helps us better address students’ needs across the performance spectrum.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2016

Sixty-two percent of K-12 schools participating in a recent survey support Chromebook initiatives, and 22 percent of those schools use Chromebooks as a primary classroom device. Editor’s note: We’re always tracking mobile device trends for you; click here and here for the latest information.] .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It provides access to four new content suites that empower educators to transform classroom learning with dynamic, immersive VR experiences. Distraction caused by mobile devices has become a pressing issue in classrooms nationwide, impacting focus, security, and even academic performance.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2019

While traditional professional development is important — in-person and group education — today’s teachers need access to fast approaching and more relevant opportunities that cater to their personal goals. . For instance, once participants finish a digital breakout session, they can earn a badge.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Students can access the EmpowerU portal on any computer or mobile device. As active participants in their wellness journey, students receive engaging online lessons and daily motivational coaching that fuels improved emotional wellbeing, school attendance, and grades. More than 98.5%

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Ensuring wi-fi access at home or on the school bus is a top priority for a district still planning its one-to-one. Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Bloomz also empowers parents to collaborate with each other, volunteer, and participate in these school activities. Everything created or shared on Bloomz is protected by its strict privacy measures, which give teachers and administrators full control of who accesses the virtual classroom or school community. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

In all three cases, study participants’ performance on standardized tests of reading preparedness indicated that the tablet use was effective. At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Learning at Scale conference, they presented the results of the first three deployments of their system. school with predominantly low-income students. “The

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

But any high-tech solution brings challenges as well—such as whether all students will have the devices or bandwidth necessary to access them. They gathered around virtual bonfires to chat about conference sessions (or whatever else) and some participated in a scavenger hunt in the 3D virtual space.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Since our teachers and students each have access to iPad minis as part of our district plan to transform learning through robust technology-enriched learning environments, providing a video coaching tool they can use with their iPad minis really empowers teachers to own the observation and reflection process. A picture IS worth 1,000 words.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Ormiboard gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices. The device-agnostic Ormiboard goes beyond presenting and testing by opening up whole-class creation and participation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Ormiboard Pro gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices. The device-agnostic Ormiboard Pro goes beyond presenting and testing by opening up whole-class creation and participation.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2019

With easier access to social media platforms through mobile devices, students are spending significantly more time online. The realities of social media, both good and bad, spurred organizations like Project B3 to step in to teach students how to participate online in a healthy, thoughtful and safe way. .

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

Before the finalists’ field test in Tanzania, 74 percent of the participating kids never went to school, 80 percent never received reading instruction at home, over 90 percent could not read Swahili. XPRIZE plans to share the data collected during its field tests and help the companies add more support for other languages and mobile devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Through these devices, students access web-based study tools, simulation tools, and apps where they can interact with their teachers and fellow students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2023

She was enrolled in our virtual connection therapy group due to her severe anxiety about participating on screen. After three weeks of participating via the monkey, the client felt comfortable and connected enough to join the handshake, and soon after that, to join the entire group session. The “monkey” joined in the handshake!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Developed by CAST , UDL is comprised of three guiding principles that seek to increase engagement and accessibility: Providing learners with multiple means of engagement; representation; and action and expression. Providing text in a digital format will increase opportunities for accessibility and flexibility for all learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2020

The included DisplayNote Launcher software allows meeting participants to launch meetings using the most popular video conferencing platforms — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and Google Meet — with one touch or using the Launcher mobile app from their mobile device.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

One common complaint from educators about VR headsets is that they aren’t always accessible for all our students. I’m thankful that Oculus has put accessibility as a priority in their product. Sharing your VR view to a mobile device can bring in many more students to watch and participate—meaning it’s not such a solo experience.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Users participate in a conversation by following—and importantly, tweeting with—a particular hashtag. Participants respond via tweets using the #DLNchat hashtag! Physical Class Design #DLNchat: Accessibility and Digital Learning #DLNchat: Experiential Learning in the Digital Realm #DLNchat: Is PowerPoint still relevant?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Study.com , in partnership with Thomas Edison State University and Quality Matters , has been selected to participate in the Department of Education’s Educational Quality through Innovative Partnerships (EQUIP). At least half of the coursework in these programs will be completed by taking Study.com video courses. “I

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are expected to widen because many of those students still lack essential access to devices and internet connections at home, preventing them from participating in remote learning activities largely delivered online.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 19, 2020

Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are expected to widen because many of those students still lack essential access to devices and internet connections at home, preventing them from participating in remote learning activities largely delivered online.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

The expenses of operating Unmudl are shared among the community college partners and employers who pay to have access to the platform. In focus groups for her research, many people who participated in short courses said that their relatively brief classroom time did not prepare them for work as well as did actual on-the-job experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2023

When teachers make it optional, many don’t participate. Share it in a teacher-provided summer activity folder (this should be quick to use, maybe through Google Drive if students have access to that). These aren’t print–these are digital, on an iPad, a desktop, or a mobile device.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

Sure, they have tools that can do each of these but they either aren’t robust enough or only do part of the job or don’t excite students enough to participate. You either already use JotForm (as do over 2 million others) or you’ve heard of it as the gold standard for forms creation whether on PCs, Macs, or mobile devices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Each participating startup will receive roughly $40,000 in cash (U.S. These services include access to an in-house “technical team to help support our startups,” Martin adds. Other financial backers for Injini include an European impact investor, as well as the South African arm of a major international foundation, Martin shares.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For many university students, participating in an online math course brings about the distressing emotions of a monumental chore. emojicopy.com A searchable way to copy/paste emojis easily accessed via Chrome extension or website. Images can be saved and then used in any number of other contexts such as announcements or DB posts.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Students have steadily headed to larger schools, where they believed they had more access to more academic resources. Learners instead spent their mornings in traditional class settings, receiving direct instruction and participating in group discussions. Moore’s new model helped to make the curriculum more flexible and personalized.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2018

More so, today’s education prioritizes mobile devices which don’t have the ability to read these mediums. Thus, students will have access to all the studying materials in the shape of PDF files, presentations, apps, and streaming videos. As mentioned above, mobile devices are going to become essential inside the classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey makes available lesson plans and assignments that can be accessed from home, on the Internet: Before the snow fell, teachers were prepped, parents were warned and students had received enough assignments to fill a snow day. Google Hangouts. It is browser-based but work.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

“It’s hard to assign electronic journaling, blogs, or FaceTime when you’re not sure what the students’ various devices are able to handle,” she says. Now everyone will have access to the same kind of learning resources and training to help them prepare for coursework and take their studies seriously.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Despite technological advancements, textbooks remain a cornerstone of classroom instruction, offering reliable information in a tangible format accessible to all students. Active learning involves engaging students in activities that require them to participate actively in the learning process, rather than passively receiving information.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Everyone can participate at any time. From as little as one week to the full 5 weeks and from 1 class to the whole school – all may participate in the World Typeathon. Students can type from school or home on any device, including iPads. Round 2 starts Monday Nov 14th 2016 and ends Sunday Dec 18th 2016. Add your students.

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