Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources. Mystery Science had raised just $4.5 million in outside capital.)

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

However, along with the benefits of mobile devices come the associated challenges. These challenges range from mismanagement and carelessness to misconduct and theft of school devices — often putting students at risk. But most importantly, you must establish safeguards for the students that use these devices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Nemko and her staff were aware of the “30 million word gap”: the research-backed idea that children who grow up in poverty come to school having heard 30 million fewer spoken words than their peers from middle-class or upper-class homes putting them at a sharp disadvantage in terms of their language skills. Audio books aren’t ‘cheating’.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of households don’t have internet subscriptions, according to the 2016 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. (In

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. Across Africa, feature phones make up 56 percent of the overall mobile phone market, according to technology research firm IDC.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If your product or services can easily pivot to English-teaching or improving students’ readiness for standardized tests as ThinkCERCA did by redesigning its curriculum to focus on supporting English language learners, then Asia may provide a big potential market. A year ago, I took a group of exchange students from Chicago to Taizhou No.1

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Dictation, a voice recognition feature that was once limited to powerful desktop workstations, has recently been integrated into the operating systems of most mobile devices. For poor connections, you can install Enhanced Dictation on a Mac laptop or desktop, which allows you to dictate without an internet connection.

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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. It will sit passively on a desk or shelf until activated by a key phrase (such as “Hey Alexa”) and then will respond in conversational language.

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Mobile Devices Intelligence Exams Questions 86

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

If you want to be picky about it, there’s no one under the age of 30 who has not grown up with the internet. 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. In October 2018, 40.7

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Mobile Devices Internet Intelligence Evaluation 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

You’ll need a smartphone or tablet with a back facing camera, an augmented reality app (many free), a trigger image (you create yourself, probably for free), and an Internet connection. Then, scan the trigger image with a mobile device app and see what happens! 10 Ways to Use AR in the Classroom.

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