Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. As one player uses the Oculus Quest (playing as a tree), the other players (squirrels) work together on mobile devices. The following resources are applications for your mobile devices. Supernatural (VR; subscription).

Activities

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science. The kinds of questions we are seeking are broad ones having to do with the art and science of facilitating learning, not how-to questions on a particular application.

Art

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In addition, the district deeply appreciated that IXL Learning’s tutoring service, Wyzant, could seamlessly connect its students with experienced instructors to grow their math skills away from the classroom. With Wyzant, learners can book a tutor anytime they need one, and meet online from a computer or mobile device.

Math

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon — To support high school and college physics instruction, Vernier Science Education has released Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces. About Vernier Science Education. It features a number of real-world examples to help increase engagement and knowledge retention as students critically analyze data.”.

High School

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range.

Internet

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Google Voice allows you to share a professional phone number that will be routed through your personal device (thus hiding your personal info from students.) Since students are more apt to reach out with questions using their mobile devices, the messaging option is important. Retrieved from [link] Ben-Eliyahu, A., Graham, C.

Online Learning

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

To craft the curriculum, Jon Moore, an instructor at University of Connecticut’s School of Business, reached out to the farm to ask what the course could do to help its existing work. The aquaponics and business experiment is a service-learning course, meaning the work students are doing is intended to tie back to the community.

Mobile Devices

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

Google Voice allows you to share a professional phone number that will be routed through your personal device (thus hiding your personal info from students.) Since students are more apt to reach out with questions using their mobile devices, the messaging option is important. Retrieved from [link] Ben-Eliyahu, A., Graham, C.

Online Learning

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Even as learning sciences offer stronger evidence of how video can support learners, CIOs continue to invest in commercial video platforms that solve for yesterday’s use case—often without a clear picture of how demand will evolve in the coming years. Passive video linked from an LMS no longer cuts it.

Mobile Devices

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

Laboratory

EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As instructors seek new ways to connect to students and keep them focused, the power of narrative ought to be a core tool at their disposal. Consumer technology adoption can expand extremely rapidly, however, as vendors mature and costs/prices decrease.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2019

But in practical terms, the company logs and analyzes every time students connect their smartphones, laptops or other mobile devices with campus wireless networks to spot patterns and notice when, say, a student stops coming to meals or attending class. “On A former computer-science professor from Ireland, Keith W.

Mobile Devices

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

Laboratory

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. Using a patented scanner technology, the tool allows teachers to grade assignments in seconds using a mobile device or tablet.

Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

Then, scan the trigger image with a mobile device app and see what happens! Faculty Photos: Display faculty photos where visitors can scan the image of an instructor and see it come to life with their background. Lab Safety: Put triggers around a science laboratory that students can scan to learn safety procedures.

Laboratory