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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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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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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. Most of our preschool kids who are native Spanish speakers come to school without anybody having read to them,” said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko. Houston has a similar initiative.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text. 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.

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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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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. Reading a book, writing a book. And so it was just fantastic. Everything lined up.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But one of the most pressing barriers I’ve come across—on campus and off—has to do with processing the information we read online everyday, and teaching students how to think critically about sources as well as how to share and articulate credible information.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Last summer, when I was working for ThinkCERCA, which helps students develop critical thinking skills through reading and writing, the edtech startup was facing a big decision: should it try and break into the lucrative Chinese market? At least I can say my high school has Wi-Fi and does not restrain the use of mobile devices after class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students? With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. 126 on the waiting list.

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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2015

Hopefully, after reading this article, you will have a better idea of how these devices fit in your educational setting. In plain English, it is a laptop that only goes online so all applications need to run in the cloud. I’ve worked with other mobile device managers, and I think this is definitely the simplest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. The delivery platform is YouTube making them available from desktops or mobile devices and embeddable into LMSs, websites, or anywhere that takes embeds. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

Or read highlights from the conversation (which have been edited and condensed for clarity). 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. Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The game, publicly available today, works on web browsers and iOS and Android mobile devices. When we played the game, we read and answered a series of questions about a T-Rex, fulcrums, tesla coils and the spoonbill bird.) Creating a game that is both educational and entertaining is not for the faint of heart—or capital.

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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. A second, Novel Effect, provides sound effects and background music for parents who read certain books out loud to their children at home.

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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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