eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

With this new view, teachers and students can see the status of every assignment, and can use filters to see assigned work, missing work, or returned and graded work. Decimal grading: As teachers know, grading is often more complicated than a simple point value. G Suite for Education-Decimal Grading. Ready the selfies!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum.

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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2016

If there’s one thing schools have learned from the multiple one-to-Kone mobile device implementations that have rolled out during the last few years, it’s that they’re hardly “set it and forget it” projects. After the Chromebooks and iPads are distributed, admins and IT teams must keep asking the tough questions. Smith, Ed.D.,

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. They wouldn’t miss anything if I started them in first or second grade would they? eating around devices –This is a horrible habit.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. While one of the district’s elementary schools was nearly 1:1, it was far from being able to provide every student with a mobile device to use at home.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

If you’re planning to participate in Hour of Code, here are a series of activities — broken down by grade — that will kickstart your effort. Grade-levels below are guidelines. First Grade — Follow one of the free online Hour of Code activities. Scroll to the section for first grade.

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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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MAY 8, 2017

For nearly a decade, the founder and CEO of Desmos has been building a free alternative that works on web browsers and mobile devices. Yet some test-makers are taking notice and, more importantly, action. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), which administers standardized tests for 15 U.S.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. I was buried under lesson plans, grades, and parent meetings. They wouldn’t miss anything if I started them in first or second grade. eating around devices –This is a horrible habit.

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MAY 15, 2019

In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania. It is developed by Enuma, which also develops Todo Math, an app for children in pre-K to second grade with over 700 math activities. Across the world, 198 teams applied. Each of them received $1 million.

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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. Give ByteLearn a try in your classroom today! 2 Khan Academy.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Here are the five most common reasons schools feel the need to assess student and faculty digital literacy: To complete online testing. The growing reliance of schools on web-based testing has forced many schools to confront the lack of digital literacy in their students and staff. To use tech in classes. NorthstarDigLit.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The WDC20E allows educators to simply tap to teach — sharing content from any digital classroom device to the classroom’s existing interactive display or projector at a touch of a button. Schools interested in testing the InstaShow WDC20E screen-mirroring system can take advantage of the BenQ Try and Buy program by signing up.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The diagnostic pinpoints students’ grade-level proficiency in key strands, generates personalized action plans that help close gaps, and assists teachers in making smarter instructional decisions. With Wyzant, learners can book a tutor anytime they need one, and meet online from a computer or mobile device.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2019

Make it mobile friendly – Making your website mobile-friendly means that it provides a great user experience regardless of the device it is viewed on. Provide grade-specific updates – Busy parents don’t want to spend time sifting through information that doesn’t affect them. or the extended WCAG 2.1

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MARCH 29, 2022

Students start the course with a pre-test to determine a baseline for their financial literacy. At the end, they take a post-test to measure improvement in their financial literacy. The Game is free, suggested for grades 4-12, and delivered via website or mobile app. This app works on desktops as well as mobile devices.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. Many students use popular apps like Quizlet for last-minute cramming before a test, for instance. What do Dave Chapelle shows and a growing number of schools have in common?

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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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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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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Seven million students took the SAT test last year. Driven in part by the educational imperative to minimize student testing, what better solution than a test already heavily vetted as being inclusive and cross-cultural that many students are familiar with. take practice tests. Free, web-based or mobile device.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

Review games often inject energy into a classroom before a test, and right when students need a jolt of energy to get that over that summative assessment hump at the end of a unit. From upper elementary to 12th grade, students are unable to resist standing up, moving around the room, and even cheering at the results.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Students start the course with a pre-test to determine a baseline for their financial literacy. At the end, they take a post-test to measure improvement in their financial literacy. The Game is free, suggested for grades 4-12, and delivered via website or mobile app. This app works on desktops as well as mobile devices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The children who heard more words were better prepared for learning when they started school, Hart and Risley found—and these same children, when followed into third grade, had larger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. The most recent NAEP scores showed that just 36 percent of U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 18, 2019

The Dell Latitude 3390 2-in-1 notebook tested for this review is the high end of a product line specifically created for educational or business functions. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how mobile devices are proving to have a positive impact on K–12 learning. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 06/18/2019 - 13:36.

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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. Now, using an app teachers and students are already familiar with, NearPod VR allows students to join virtual tours regardless of the device used in their schools — iPads, Chromebooks, Mac, or PCs. Tour Creator.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We are actually a kinder through 8th grade school district. Kevin Hogan Now you mentioned devices as part of that initiative and what I read at mobile devices are a. And so as an example, we are testing we. This is what’s called the high Desert Antelope Valley in my school district, there are 30. Big part of.

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APRIL 18, 2016

This includes an app to develop vocabulary (Spelling City), three to build overarching reading skills (Starfall, Flocabulary, and Teach Your Monster to Read) and a great game-based program to test out new skills (the Sports Network). Spelling City is a word study website or mobile app that uses popular games to teach vocabulary.

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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. There are so many programs out there that are saying they are educational for kids—like us, buy us or watch us because we are educational.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

District leaders and community stakeholders typically express more excitement about highly visible end-user technologies such as mobile devices and interactive whiteboards, Brantley says. “A Very quickly, they saw that the district’s existing wireless network would struggle to handle the influx of devices.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were addressed a decade ago. Because mobile devices are faster, it satisfies student curiosity and builds their passion to be lifelong learners. The French government actually banned cell phone use in French schools for grades kindergarten-9th.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

In K-12 education, employing effective teaching methods and strategies is paramount for engaging students and facilitating meaningful learning experiences across diverse subjects and grade levels. These visual representations enhance the learning environment and provide valuable reference points for students throughout the school year.

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MAY 1, 2018

Study.com also offers a special (fee-based) Teacher Edition where educators can set up five virtual classrooms with up to 50 students in each, share class-themed videos, assign lessons and quizzes as homework, grade student work, print out worksheets, and get detailed reports on student progress. Create a classroom (in about ten seconds).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our test scores have gone up, you know. I mean, how is your position changed to say, maybe FTC 10 years ago where you’re talking about, you know, I don’t know, implementing social media or talking about mobile devices or like pure techie stuff, you’re not talking about social emotional learning you’re talking about?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our test scores have gone up, you know. I mean, how is your position changed to say, maybe FTC 10 years ago where you’re talking about, you know, I don’t know, implementing social media or talking about mobile devices or like pure techie stuff, you’re not talking about social emotional learning you’re talking about?

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Currently in beta testing, KiraKira plans to begin raising a $2 million seed round in January—the same time it’s planning to launch a mobile app. report cards have by and large stayed the same over the last century—there’s not always good feedback, and it’s too late once bad grades get in. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For instance, Remind makes it possible for teachers to let families know what assignments or tests students have coming up. Kaymbu helps teachers, particularly in early grades, share snapshots of student work and learning with families. All the work happens via mobile devices. We were a little nervous,” conceded Baer.

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