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. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—is running a new TV ad showing a future in which college students slip on a lightweight VR headset to enter a lecture hall where a professor can toss 3D models of biological cells to students who can pull them apart to demonstrate some concept.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. College in the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

K-12 tech innovation is driving a paradigm shift in education, embracing interactive tools, personalized learning, and digital resources to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the evolving global landscape. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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MARCH 19, 2017

Photo Courtesy of Katy Kasmia In one of her introductory lectures, she uses Elon Musk’s Mars colonization efforts to set the tone before the students brainstorm ideas to solve climate change. Her program works to help students rekindle their imaginations so they can think creatively about solving community issues.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough. Department of Education.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The perpetrator later took control of the audio, and Ishmael, a senior policy manager of education policy at New America, recalls a male voice spewing misogynistic epithets. It’s essentially internet trolling on video conferencing, involving somebody who takes over the audio and video controls to broadcast inappropriate materials and remarks.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Well, Downes says the problems with requiring registration, even when it’s free, are many—including that it makes it more difficult or even impossible for students to easily find potentially helpful lecture videos in internet searches or for other professors to assign pieces of the courses as resources in their own teaching.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The technology gives new resonance to that old “ infinite monkey theorem ,” which holds that a roomful of monkeys and typewriters, if given enough time, would eventually compose the works of Shakespeare. Except that educators aren’t laughing. They can just have the essay generator do it.” Welcome to the next frontier in cheating.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

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. Both countries are relying on digital technologies to accelerate the education pedagogy and create a future-ready workforce.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Talk of the metaverse is everywhere, even though the new, more immersive internet isn’t exactly here yet. Even so, some educators are trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in the metaverse. Maybe [students] could meet Socrates when they go back. Probably not much.

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JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Do you think we’re still going to see major disruption in higher education because of online education? I wrote a book in 2001 called “ Ruling the Waves ,” which was looking at the internet in historical perspective. I think undergraduate education is being disrupted for lots and lots of reasons.

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MAY 26, 2020

Though he’s based at Kansas State University, where he is a professor of cultural anthropology, he’s increasingly kind of a professor-at-large on the internet. For this week’s episode, I connected with Wesch to hear about his vision of how to turn online educational videos into what he calls “adventure lectures.”

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APRIL 8, 2019

Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. I value my lecture time,” says Wooten. “I Review key terms and definitions. “I

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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 such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. I have trouble opening up my classes, viewing lectures, downloading lectures or material, and can never hand my assignments in on time even if I finish them before the deadline because my laptop is so slow it takes forever to upload work.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

In the past, any new approach to cheating has spread slowly, often in secret on dark corners of the internet. That’s among the professors open to change, she notes: “The other prevailing mood is terror, thinking ‘This throws everything that I do into chaos. With ChatGPT, adoption has become widespread in just a few months. “I

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APRIL 27, 2020

I definitely worry about some of my teachers and the level of burnout they’re feeling,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at Bullis School in Potomac, Md. These questions were in the spotlight during the latest installment in our EdSurge-ISTE webinar series. “I

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MAY 18, 2023

For example: A review of how companies handle student data by Internet Safety Labs, a nonprofit that tests software products, showed that 96 percent of apps used and recommended by U.S. educational institutions shared that data with third parties.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Bowen argues that unlike an internet search, where an instructor would simply change the term she’s searching for if she doesn’t like the results, the instructor is helping the machine learn the subject area, teaching it what she means by a term within the context of her instruction.

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MAY 14, 2021

One learning that students, whether in-class or online, seemed to welcome: break lectures into 15 minute chunks, followed by 15 minutes of class dialogue. Faculty have been sharing stories about what pedagogical practices worked best online. The provost’s office created an extensive resource collection to help faculty.

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APRIL 25, 2023

They are organized into five categories — science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics — and further indexed by relevant courses, like AP Physics, or topics, like digital photography.

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APRIL 18, 2019

On the consumption side, the uses of video were quite clear: digital video is another channel for educational content; one that allows time-shifting and scrolling through clips. Videoconferencing requires robust internet connection that not all students have access to, and even downloading video clips can be challenging on some connections.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital. Television turned popular radio programs into TV shows like “The Lone Ranger,” “Life of Riley,” and “Jack Benny.” The interactive medium was used for one-way communication, from teacher to student.

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JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. Without having to get political, the internet has opened up lots, and lots, and lots of alternative facts. What do you think about Lecture Capture. Do you not do that at Goucher?

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JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. How will faculty learn how to deliver effective courses virtually—not just their old lectures via Zoom?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Experts are speculating about its potential uses in business, law and education, and San José State University’s School of Information has received a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to find out whether blockchain could be useful for libraries. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In general, 3D printing has numerous advantages and in education, one of its biggest advantages is producing scaled models of objects that are simply not accessible in other ways. Instead of Internet searches or museum excursions, students can hold in their hands accurate representations of fossils, tools, and other artifacts from the past.

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JUNE 12, 2020

First, educators had to rethink infrastructure. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. When our school buildings closed, districts and teachers were tasked with creating remote learning plans for their students. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Faced with administrative concerns that the need for Internet access and Internet-enabled devices would limit student access to digital textbooks, Billings began the daunting project by testing an introductory English course to obtain student feedback. Electronic whiteboards allow for on-screen annotation and remote Internet access.

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JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. We can’t meaningfully listen to the deafening roar of the internet. Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online.

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MARCH 21, 2017

After all, the original promise of teaching on the internet was to reach remote students who couldn’t easily get to a campus. One thing University of Central Florida has become known for is large lecture classes. As I recall, some in-person courses are so big you have overflow rooms where students watch the lectures on TV.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. For instance, teachers may consider replacing one-sided lectures with more group discussion, or they may make sure to ask follow-up questions to students’ answers.

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