eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

In the era of mobile devices and tablets, interactivity has become the norm for schoolchildren. Or they might find it challenging to compete against fellow students to become the first to finish a task or answer a question correctly via touchscreen. It will also disable or freeze devices after repeated attempts at access.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

Features include real-time comprehension checks with multiple-choice polling questions, virtual hand raising, non-verbal emoji feedback, whiteboarding, attention tracking, and more. 100% cloud-based phone, mobility and unified communications system gives districts a collaborative edge. OfficeSuite UC e-Learning solutions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apps can be a valuable resource for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to engage students with digital resources. The editors of Common Sense Education review and rate apps for students of all ages. With a bit of digging, teachers will find ready-to-go quick-writes as well as discussion openers or closers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

According to Common Sense Media’s study “ Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in America ,” the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. What’s more, about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2018

Mobile devices are a key component in many classrooms, and apps go hand-in-hand with those mobile devices. When those apps are free and device-agnostic, it’s even easier to integrate them into the classroom. We Video is a cloud-based app helping multiple users work on a video project across multiple devices.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

It involves far more than picking up the latest mobile device and downloading one or two educational apps. There are thousands of edtech options, as well as other applications, IoT devices, and infrastructure needs to consider. It’s these solutions that let people “raise their hands” when we asked our opening question.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Compelling research shows that following up text reading with quiz questions improves comprehension, retention and final test performance, more so than questions that appear in advance of materials or interspersed throughout the materials ( Chan, McDermott, & Roediger, 2006 ). Fill-in-the-Blank Questions. Frequency .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

My question: Why haven’t we started this conversation sooner? The controls teachers had, a wide variety of content and worlds, and Minecraft’s “low threshold but infinite ceiling” (as Microsoft says) made it a title that was accessible to nearly every student. Diversity, inclusion, and access do not happen accidentally.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

The free resources from Vernier include the following: Experiment and Sample Data Library: Teachers can access more than 250 free experiments covering many subjects to distribute to students at home. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

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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. Instead of seeing only a total score, we can now easily see how students respond to each question.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Interface Expansion : Full-screen expansion of the classroom experience to support the user experience on desktop and mobile devices. All eBooks include prediction and comprehension questions. It provides users access to a safe and secure learning environment for children—free of pop-ups, ads or links. New Content.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button. With itopia Labs, educators can provide anytime, anywhere, any device access to software applications that students commonly use for Career Technical Education (CTE) and various certification programs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Food Chemistry Experiments , which is available in both electronic and print versions,includes 14 ready-to-use experiments utilizing Vernier technology such as the Go Direct ® SpectroVis ® Plus Spectrophotometer, Go Direct Temperature Probe, and Go Direct CO 2 Gas Sensor to help students investigate complex questions involving food.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

The use of AR can make learning more accessible while increasing the engagement of all students. AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. You can just use your phone or any mobile device.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2016

More often than not, students pick up a mobile device or use a computer to access videos and digital media online. Once they locate the video they wish to use, they next use the TED-Ed Lesson editor to add questions, discussion prompts and additional resources.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

To help tackle this tech issue, and ensure these devices don’t become distractions, many schools are turning to mobile device management. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 schools need strong mobile device management services. Mobile Device Management Basics for Schools. According to NPR , 53 percent of U.S.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2023

There are many ways we can get sidetracked and lose focus on a very important question: Why use AR or VR? Understand the Benefits and Limitations of Your Classroom Devices The majority of classrooms in the U.S. now have access to student devices. Additionally, only a few immersive apps have access to Google Play.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Popular mobile devices may come and go, but the iPad has remained a hit in the K-12 classroom. But even though they’re in schools, our work with teachers has led us to understand that while many of them would like to use iPads meaningfully in their classrooms, they can’t because of time, access, and training.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Edtech spoke with Leila Nuland, managing research director for K-12 at Hanover research to discuss some of the trends surrounding computer science in K–12 and how to overcome issues of accessibility and underrepresentation in certain populations. There are enough challenges with equitable access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

With just one click, teachers may produce 7th Grade Math worksheets like Combining Like Terms , Grade 7 Math quizzes like Distributive Property , Seventh Grade Math unit tests , and 7 Grade Math Practice Questions on Distributive Property etc. Additionally, is it necessary to have practice questions and detailed reports?

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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. . Administrators may be baffled by those results, but they shouldn’t be. .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Hard questions lead to the right answer. That, in turn, accelerates the rate at which teachers implement changes to improve their craft because they can now upload videos of classroom instruction directly from mobile devices. But our decision also created some cognitive dissonance as we migrated to video coaching. It’s powerful.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Anywhere Access Benefits From Dedicated Space The students who are least likely to ask for help are those who need it most. A devoted space can lend itself to learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Adolescence is a time when many students are trying to figure out their place in the world, and questioning what matters and why. Wayfinder aims to help high schoolers break down that big “why” question into smaller ones through two programs: “Purpose” for grades 9 to 12, and “Belonging” for grades 7 to 10.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Ed tech leaders throughout America are invited to take a short 10-question quiz to find out which action hero best fits their personality. The Homework Gap refers to the number of school-age children who don’t have broadband access at home and cannot complete their school assignments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Users choose a template and then add a title along with written and/or voice-recorded instructions and create their questions based on videos, images, charts, tables, and more. Teachers can opt to give students a choice of response format, such as verbal, written, or drawn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

In-class whiteboards or video kits that can be accessed remotely—and in real time—by students create an immersive experience for at-home students that’s more akin to the classroom. Engaging remote learning tools , such as polls and interactive questions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

More than 500 schools will use IXL to supplement math instruction and approximately 20,000 students can access one-on-one virtual tutoring opportunities through Wyzant , the nation’s largest tutoring network. Through IXL, Florida schools access a B.E.S.T. Currently used by 12 million students and in all of the top 100 U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. Backchannel : Provide a form with a simple starter question, say, “Questions? Quick assessments: Send out a question during a virtual meeting.

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