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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MAY 20, 2022

Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Mighty Books includes over 600 K-8 animated storybooks, games, songs, and puzzles that can be read online or on mobile devices. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The school district is also working with Carousel partner Jamf to securely convert Apple TV devices into media players, and providing access to meeting room schedules on mobile devices. Based in Elkhart, Ind., Elkhart Community Schools serves approximately 12,000 students.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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MAY 14, 2021

Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Mighty Books includes over 600 K-8 animated storybooks, games, songs, and puzzles that can be read online or on mobile devices. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

At Khan Academy, employees have been focusing their efforts on mobile devices in order to achieve one-to-one for students. Earlier this year, the nonprofit partnered with the Carlos Slim Foundation to make the content free of data charges for mobile users in Mexico. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

They’re used to charge, secure, store, and distribute tablets, laptops, and mobile devices—and in schools that aren’t using one-to-one take-home initiatives, they’ve become a mainstay. Carts, those waist-high metal cabinets on wheels, often hold dozens of devices, perfect for classrooms that need technology on the go.

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MAY 19, 2023

Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Choices include fiction, poetry, and songs in English and Spanish (a limited availability). Books can be read online or on mobile devices. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2021

Multilingual Parent and Student Portals which help improve access and engagement for families who speak languages other than English. Students and families will have immediate access to the portals in Spanish, with other language options available soon.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how educators are using mobile devices to make a positive impact. With mobile technology more integral to people’s lives, it’s predicted that smartphone use in the classroom could reach 55 percent in 2018 globally. Smartphones Are Not Universal in K–12. by Larry Bernstein.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Many students with disabilities read below grade level and benefit from the text-to-speech tool that is universally available across computer and mobile devices. Similarly, some students benefit from dictation applications through which they say their thoughts aloud, triggering the device to convert those thoughts to text.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

school districts, IXL is an integrated learning platform that supports personalized learning in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. Since 2005, millions of learners have looked to Wyzant for help in K-12 subjects ranging from math and science to English language arts, history, test prep and more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. This gap is even wider when students grow up in non-English speaking households. The product features interactive books that can “read themselves” to children in English or Spanish, Nemko said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It's adding functionality to its myHostos mobile app and reaching out to students with Succeed@Hostos , an early warning system that enhances timely communication between students, professors and staff. They require remedial classes or English-language instruction. Out With Silos, in With Teamwork. A Pilot Program Takes Off.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

We’re so focused on content and checking the boxes of ‘Did you get your math and English?’ Each program comes with lesson plans, training guides, exercises and reflection questions for students, which are available in hard copies and through an app accessible via the web and mobile devices.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In English 202C, a technical writing course, students use our Invention Studio and littleBits to practice inventing their own electronic devices, write instructions for how to construct the device, and have classmates reproduce the invention.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If your product or services can easily pivot to English-teaching or improving students’ readiness for standardized tests, then Asia may provide a big potential market Back home, I’m a Chicago teacher, but I spend my summers consulting with edtech companies in Asia. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

All you need (for VR) is the Expeditions app, a mobile device or Chrome OS, and a Cardboard or Daydream viewer. It is available in English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese, The app is free to get started but includes in-app purchases to enrich the experience.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2018

For Hillbrook, the “Big Why”—the phrase Hare and Selak assign to an overarching vision—has become, by turns, about student autonomy, making and creation, as well as a seamless fusion of technology and environment in an era where ubiquitous WiFi and mobile devices have untethered kids from the traditional concept of a classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By investing $7 million in technology and implementing the bilingual “Footsteps to Brilliance” program, the district aims to provide equal educational opportunities for its diverse student population, including one-third English learners. The computer-generated transcript is below: Kevin Hogan OK. Is actually bilingual.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, it offers 94 courses across 38 languages, including widely spoken languages such as Arabic, Chinese and English, and more regional-specific tongues such as Navajo, Hawaiian, Welsh and Irish Gaelic. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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JULY 14, 2017

Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Mighty Books includes over 600 K-8 animated storybooks, games, songs, and puzzles that can be read online or on mobile devices. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. We have an 18 percent English-language learner population. Our elementary schools are almost one-to-one, with a 1-to-2 ratio of devices to students. Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Smartphones, however, offer limited access because several school data systems are more difficult to navigate on mobile devices. percent of students met proficiency targets on math and English language arts exams during the 2016-17 school year and only 8.38 According to the state data dashboard , only 7.98

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Kevin Wong, an adjunct instructor from NYU Children under eight-years-old view content on mobile devices for an average of 48 minutes per day, according to a recent survey by Common Sense Media. Yet, this language acquisition also varied depending on the child’s level of English proficiency.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

The delivery platform is YouTube making them available from desktops or mobile devices and embeddable into LMSs, websites, or anywhere that takes embeds. Topics include earth sciences, nature, science, technology, history, space, the human body, sports, politics, philosophy, and more. Education.com Songs.

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MARCH 30, 2015

In plain English, it is a laptop that only goes online so all applications need to run in the cloud. PROS: Portability: These little cuties are so light and mobile that kids carry them around in their backpacks or just in their cases (we have cases with shoulder straps). They also come with Google’s online office suite.”.

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Mobile Devices Internet Classroom Management Textbooks 145

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AUGUST 1, 2019

To get started, I needed a mobile device (like an iPhone, Android phone, or an iPad–the latter is recommended), a Bluetooth connection, and a risk-takers mentality. It comes in German, Swedish, and English–excellent. kids who love fiddling with mobile devices. That’s it! Who will love this robot.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

We just didn’t have the room to have a really nice, neat rack where we could say, ‘Here’s the server for math, here’s the server for English,’ ” says Thad Phipps, assistant superintendent for operations. In Artesia, space constraints played a major role in the district’s lack of centralized resources. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids. So we do K-8 English language arts curriculum and K-8 science curriculum. There’s a body of work we’ve been doing for a long time around diagnosing reading and math issues in young kids—these are observational assessments.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices. Learning activities in Adventure Academy (Screenshot: Tony Wan) The curriculum, built by a team of more than 40 experts, covers roughly 100 topics across English language arts, math, science and social studies subjects.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. After all, the first web browser—Netscape Navigator—was introduced in 1993, when today’s three-decade-old adult was in preschool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

All the work happens via mobile devices. Parents and guardians frequently work multiple jobs, are uncomfortable speaking English and some may even be nervous or distrustful of interacting with teachers. The materials, currently geared to grades 3 through 8, are available in Spanish and English.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It Studies show that modern learning environments improve student performance. It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says.

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