eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

the deployment of mobile devices. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. Additionally, mobile devices were provided to additional subject areas, including laptops to all elementary schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power. As a history teacher for nearly three decades, I have seen this transformation firsthand.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

For students across Texas and around the country, bridging the digital divide and providing reliable Internet connectivity that enables distance learning for students without Internet access are among the top priorities for state governments, school districts, teachers and parents alike. Many students across the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Cyber Legends has reached out to teachers, schools, school boards, cybersecurity experts, and online safety professionals to collect data over the past 2 years to learn about their challenges. Cyber Legends also comes with tons of free resources to help teachers, parents, and children. and Canada.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2015

Edthena – a platform for teachers to record themselves and receive feedback online. Qustodio – allows parents and educators to set controls over kids’ internet usage, and track it using a dashboard. Allcancode – an app that introduces younger students to computer science through gameplay.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Counties across the state have worked to increase their broadband capacity as online assessments, video resources, and mobile devices have become more prevalent in schools. This new connectivity exceeds a national network infrastructure benchmark of 100 Mbps, which was set by the State Educational Technology Directors Association.

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Mobile Devices Internet Accessibility Educational Technologies 222

eSchool News

JULY 14, 2016

School districts in the United States spend billions of dollars each year to purchase technology for the classroom, yet the lack of technology and internet access in the nation’s public schools continues to be an issue. This article outlines strategies for teachers to increase the impact of the technology to which they are limited.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

This means you know exactly what technology will best benefit your students and teachers, you know exactly what it will cost to upgrade, and you know exactly how to update your technology without any interoperability or other issues. It involves far more than picking up the latest mobile device and downloading one or two educational apps.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2021

Powerful VOD capabilities enable school district to easily and reliably share high-quality student, teacher, and board-produced videos as medium takes on an increasingly important role. Many teachers and groups are also turning to the Media Arts Studio to create and host online video to achieve their educational goals.

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Mobile Devices Art Internet Schools 246

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. There are numerous reasons why we overblock the Internet. The way we should be thinking about Internet filtering.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. The aim is to make it easier for teachers to integrate VR and AR resources into their existing instruction by equipping teachers with the tools they need to be able to teach within that environment.

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STEM Math Internet Mobile Devices 339

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The increasing digitalization of education has put even more emphasis on internet access in K–12 schools , leading more school districts, nonprofits and government agencies to invest in programs and services to ensure each student is connected. . Students are also using their mobile devices to assist with their education now more than ever.

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Mobile Devices Schools Internet Activities 162

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

For increased engagement and collaboration, teachers are relying on new teaching methods such as microlearning and gamification. What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards. Finally, there’s also a drive toward more community and outreach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson. According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. But where to start?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Teachers from Citrus County Schools highlighted the ease of use and intuitiveness of the BenQ Board smart boards.

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Mobile Devices Gamification Science STEM 345

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

So maybe you thought internet connectivity to schools was a done deal. But when kids and their devices return to classrooms, school bandwidth will again be in the spotlight. On the home front, three organizations have released a “guidebook” to help schools and states close the internet access and device gap.

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Mobile Devices Internet History Accessibility 209

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. As a teacher, you can manage your class, track what’s being read, supervise equizzes, and more.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2016

Teachers have become pretty adept at doing more with less, but in our efforts to offset funding cuts, we often overlook a very important, and inexpensive, resource: parents. Discussing changes in a child’s readiness skills can open a dialogue about the child’s strengths and any areas of potential concern for families or teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. At Khan Academy, employees have been focusing their efforts on mobile devices in order to achieve one-to-one for students. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Educational Technologies Technology Mobile Devices Education 167

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. In some cases, a lack of internet access at home is financial in nature. The root problem.

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Internet Mobile Devices Accessibility Instructors 189

eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

One-to-One Learning Initiatives : Many districts are empowering their students by opening a whole new world of learning by swapping traditional, printed textbooks for tablets, laptops, and computers, giving students the latest technology and access to the internet and building new curriculum in and around this marriage of education and technology.

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Mobile Devices Textbooks Schools Testing 172

eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

One was set in a pair of rural Ethiopian villages with no schools and no written culture; one was set in a suburban South African school with a student-to-teacher ratio of 60 to 1; and one was set in a rural U.S. The trials examined a range of educational environments. school with predominantly low-income students.

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Mobile Devices Technology Teaching Testing 170

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Kajeet, a provider of safe mobile student internet connectivity, has launched its 2016 campaign to highlight the “real action heroes” in school districts working to close the Homework Gap for their students. 1 million Homework Gap hours ‘rescued’ by Kajeet Customers.

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Mobile Devices Internet Assignments Intelligence 159

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Earlier this year in a webinar from edWeb , Jeff Meyer, director of education at Learning.com, outlined the importance of ingraining digital citizenship in students at a young age, and listed some of the educational tools available to teachers for starting these lessons early. Students are more exposed to the internet than ever.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Classroom management tools are useful for teachers to create an organized, productive, and conducive learning environment. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

K–12 students have more access to the internet than ever, thanks to the multitude of personal devices at their fingertips. . With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . Sun, 04/14/2019 - 10:28. by Jennifer Brown.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . teachers also assigned internet-based homework last year, according to the Pew Research Center. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

New whiteboarding software offers instant sharing to any student device, classroom management, and advanced interactivity building without an internet connection. Ormiboard Pro 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.

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Mobile Devices Internet Classroom Management Participation 118

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. million teachers across the world, and in 75 percent of all U.S.

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Mobile Devices Learning Quizzes Science 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2021

I selected these three because they are intuitive, multi-functional, and work as a classroom tool rather than just another new widget teachers must learn. This untethers teachers from their desk. SyncSpace is a sharable, zoomable, collaborative whiteboard for iPads, mobile devices, laptops, and computers. Free to try.

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Mobile Devices Internet Curriculum Math 167

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Chile has more mobile cellular subscriptions (127 per 100 people) than the U.S. 122) and China (105), plus a higher percent of internet users (82 percent) compared to the U.S. (75)

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Educational Technologies Technology Teaching Mobile Devices 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2021

Here are some suggestions to help you with that issue (from the Ask a Tech Teacher team): How Parents Can Protect Their Kid’s Privacy and Safety Online? Let’s face it, the internet is taking over the world and from school to home to playing games, children are spending more time online. So let’s get started: Use an Encrypted Network.

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Internet Mobile Devices Activities Curriculum 159

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

The device-agnostic, Google Classroom-integrated, collaborative tool allows teachers and students to build lessons, activities, and interactive games. 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.

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Mobile Devices Quizzes Exams Assignments 133

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).

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Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 184

eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

Digital solutions such as classroom management, collaboration, and online polls allow teachers to be more productive so they spend less time administrating and more time teaching and interacting with pupils. However, along with the benefits of mobile devices come the associated challenges. Social etiquette.

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Mobile Devices Schools Internet Coaching 189

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , I run a column called Dear Otto where I answer teacher questions about how to integrate technology into their classes. Do you need teacher or District dashboards? Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” Do you need a Scope and Sequence?

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Knowledge Testing Mobile Devices Internet 190

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were addressed a decade ago. What do you do about personal devices that circumvent the school security to access the Internet? In many schools, Internet access is spotty, undependable, and a challenge to manage. And why not?

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