Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. The internet has become an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike, offering a vast repository of educational materials, research, and collaborative tools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Bowen argues that unlike an internet search, where an instructor would simply change the term she’s searching for if she doesn’t like the results, the instructor is helping the machine learn the subject area, teaching it what she means by a term within the context of her instruction. Artificial intelligence can play a role in that, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

Listening to teacher lectures and doing rote, low-level desk work isn’t going to help her stay engaged. The student who’s sitting at home, trying to find a quiet place to concentrate and work, separated from his friends, juggling a variety of technologies and assignments, perhaps struggling with device / Internet access or parent support?

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Motivation Textbooks Lecturing Critical Thinking 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

For years, my teaching revolved around textbooks as my resources. When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. Using the Internet in classrooms has morphed from optional to organic.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Internet Learning 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over winter break in 2015, I found myself scouring the internet for career alternatives that would take me out of the classroom. I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., Anonymous student.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Within these walls, knowledge transcends textbooks, as discussions, debates, and collaborations spark deeper understanding. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. That means you can focus on student progress and commit less time to scouring the internet for something useful.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2018

Also, the high-speed internet makes streaming a reality which means video can be accessed from any location allowing students to attend classes remotely while enabling teachers to upload video lectures to complement their students’ learning experience. Which Tech Is Set to Emerge in Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

When I went to school, it was all about the 3Rs, desks in rows, and a teacher lecturing from the front of the room. Less about textbooks and more about authentic resources. Textbooks used to be de rigueur in a classroom. No more waiting for the expensive update to a textbook. Now, they’re reference material.

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Education Gamification Textbooks Critical Thinking 79

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Welcome to the Hidden Curriculum of the Internet We often imagine learning as something that happens within school walls, books opened, teachers talking, students taking notes. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning. But in 2025, that idea is rapidly fading. This is informal learning.

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EAB

APRIL 11, 2023

So we took presidents to Zappos, a shoe sales company, a internet portal to get presidents to think about customer service and innovation and organizational values. It's hard for me to imagine colleges and universities across the country, all have VR headsets in their lecture halls, but perhaps I'm not being imaginative enough.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Late last week, an economics professor at Arizona State University sent an email to students that quickly went viral arguing that he is being dismissed from the university because he refused to assign an online textbook that he says “requires students to pay just to turn in homework.” What’s Going on at ASU?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

High-quality curricular materials that emphasize historical thinking skills, such as the Stanford History Education Group’s “Think Like a Historian” framework, are now readily available on the Internet. It’s now rare to find a textbook that doesn’t include a spotlight on key primary sources. That’s no surprise.

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History Teaching Social Studies Textbooks 129

Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

If you have worked tirelessly and jumped through many hoops to adopt an OER textbook in order to bring down the cost of education for your students, you may feel guilty about adding back the expense of these educational tools. For this method, students will need an internet-capable device.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2023

If you have worked tirelessly and jumped through many hoops to adopt an OER textbook in order to bring down the cost of education for your students, you may feel guilty about adding back the expense of these educational tools. For this method, students will need an internet-capable device.

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Instructors Multiple Choice Questions Internet Participation 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This demonstration of the subject’s impact to their future success resonates with students and can be delivered in any class format with a lecture, video, or assigned exercise. Part 2 will cover the art of the check-in, an after class summary, and last day thank yous, and will be published on Friday, March 3, 2023.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This demonstration of the subject’s impact to their future success resonates with students and can be delivered in any class format with a lecture, video, or assigned exercise. Part 2 will cover the art of the check-in, an after class summary, and last day thank yous, and will be published on Friday, March 3, 2023.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2025

What once was a space filled with lectures, textbooks, and rigid routines has evolved into a dynamic, interactive environment fueled by digital learning tools and creative teaching strategies. But this transformation must happen for every learner, not just those in well-funded districts.

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