Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Mobile AR, VR, and voice technologies are creating more interactive learning experiences. And AI-powered education platforms can help to improve student engagement with global culture and history. Read on for three use cases of emerging technologies in education, and check out our recent prototyping projects here.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Teachers: Model appropriate etiquette with edtech for students When I work with teachers, one obstacle they say is in the way of them letting students use mobile devices every day in their classrooms is the distraction factor. Are they connecting literature or history to the present day? Empower your students/children.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

How to I provide equity for those without computers or internet access at home is challenging? Repurpose cart devices or class laptops to go home. Access the required site through mobile devices. Provide mobile hotspots distributed by school. Google’s Be Internet Awesome –abbreviated course. Keyboarding.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey makes available lesson plans and assignments that can be accessed from home, on the Internet: Before the snow fell, teachers were prepped, parents were warned and students had received enough assignments to fill a snow day. It is browser-based but work.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. They are funny, entertaining, educational, often short, and rarely boring.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S. K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device. Five years later, these developments didn’t just upend the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Additionally, for some independent schools, the potentially disruptive nature of these devices and online spaces presents perceived threats to institutional history and norms. While it is possible to enable greater student agency without digital technologies, computers coupled with Internet access are powerful amplifiers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It is a physical device connected to the Internet via WiFi that you can talk to, ask questions of, and get help from on particular topics. Although each is a bit different, basically, plug the device in, activate its app on your mobile device and/or tablet, find the school Wifi, and you’re ready.

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APRIL 4, 2019

If you have students who still hunt-and-peck, who fall behind on homework because they’re searching for the F key (or any of the other 25 letter keys), or try to “thumb” the keyboard as they do a mobile device, you know this often doesn’t work (see this article from the Washington Post on keyboarding in the classroom).

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

This is a great opportunity for students to make good use of their mobile devices, which most own, and those devices usually have recording features that allow them to record an interview using just audio or audio and video, or even record right into a learning management system.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

This is a great opportunity for students to make good use of their mobile devices, which most own, and those devices usually have recording features that allow them to record an interview using just audio or audio and video, or even record right into a learning management system.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

We identified a broad device ecosystem of laptops, tablets, smartphones fitness trackers, smartwatches, computer-enabled shoes, game players and e-readers, then examined how moving content between those devices was enabled (open standards, the web) or discourages (hardware-specific formats, siloes).

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