Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers The internet has provided teachers with numerous tools to enhance their students’ learning experience. Common Cyber Threats Facing Educators Every profession has had its fair share of internet-based troubles. Read the data protection policies of online platforms before signing up.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. And kids double down on digital reading—all in this Edtech Reports Recap. adults lost their main source of internet access as libraries started to shut down in March 2020.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. A note: Any time students use the internet, start with a discussion on how to use it safely. Game playing develops reading skills. Close reading to determine what text says and make logical inferences. Which they love.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Enhanced internet connectivity In today’s digital age, robust internet connectivity is essential for effective learning. Smart campuses leverage high-speed internet to support a range of educational tools and resources. For example, during reading or studying, cooler, brighter lighting can help increase alertness and focus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2023

Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you (click here for updates to the list): For Children Aesop for Children –collection of fables Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

Our student learning is anchored around Harkness discussions, an educational approach in which students discuss class readings, course material, and other texts. Lack of regulation: The SEC failed to adjust its regulations to the new realities of the internet and the stock market. I welcomed our first “speaker,” ChatGPT.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2023

These natural tendencies, exacerbated by the pervasiveness of social media and the limitless access to information on the internet, leave us vulnerable to being duped by disinformation. Whatever you read comes from someone with a particular history, perspective, and set of interests. But we are not defenseless. Explore context.

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Critical Thinking Skills History Internet 352

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2021

Unlike Matt and too many other children, he had a quiet place to work, parents able to help him, and reliable internet service. A McKinsey report predicts that because of the pandemic’s disruption to America’s schools, students will lose 8-12 months of math, and the forecast for reading loss isn’t much better. The lost generation.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

that is copied–often with slight variations–and spread rapidly by Internet users. Just in time for summer reading! Yesterday, I stumbled onto the KQED YouTube video about making memes. I love memes! A meme is a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. I decided I wanted to find a way to incorporate memes in my English class.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For students in the 21st century, it’s almost impossible to overemphasize the importance of the internet and digital learning technologies. E-rate provides 20 to 90 percent discounts for telecommunications, telecommunications services, internet access, internal connections, and managed internal broadband services.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Since 2019, France has ensured wireless devices are labeled with warnings which read: “Keep radio equipment away from the belly of pregnant women, and away from the lower abdomen of adolescents.” To protect children’s health, countries such as France, Israel, and Belgium prohibit Wi-Fi in kindergartens. Birnbaum, L., Ben-Ishai, P.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2019

I had not heard of the concept of “ information privilege ” before reading Joyce Valenza’s thoughtful and comprehensive post last month. Keep our internet access as open as possible to all learners. My family valued education and reading. The absence of access is one symptom of information poverty.”—

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Some families had internet access, computers, and the ability to work from home while supporting their child’s online learning. students will return to school in the fall of 2020 with only 70 percent of the learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year. Related content: Study shows major learning loss for grades K-2.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Today’s actions might focus on internet access at home and the impact of social justice movements, but new equity challenges could arrive tomorrow. Instead of trying to give each student the exact same experience and expect them all to graduate, leaders need to figure out what each student needs to complete their educational goals.

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Education STEM Internet Discussions 305

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2015

I wish I could protect my students from the Internet, but I can’t. A popup window with a button reading “Creator Studio” will appear. As soon as they share a YouTube video or post a comment online, they open themselves up to possible ridicule and unkind remarks. Click “Creator Studio.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2022

The internet has changed writing forever. Our students don’t only write about their personal life but share community and society news – and their opinion matters, as people read those writings online, “listening” to those thoughts. Now they write more than speak.

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Writing Teaching Students Internet 271

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in math, reading, and all subjects combined. Therefore, to reach these students where they are, we need to evolve our instructional strategies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Social annotation as an e-learning vehicle within UDL Social annotation tools can improve reading comprehension and student interaction. Teachers can use them to allow students to make annotations that are shared with their peers, making them consider reading as a social element instead of something that is maybe individual and dull.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Students today tend to think they know everything there is to know about the internet, and although it’s true that they’ve grown up with the technology that some of us are still getting used to, our job is to teach them to evaluate and analyze the at-times overwhelming amount of information that comes to them via their screens.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Efficient reading is best for some students to gain knowledge, while others rely more on audio visual materials. Digital learning tools include any program, app, or technology that can be accessed via an internet connection. (2) There are numerous advantages to educational technology.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2022

Let’s see how to use web filtering to stay safe out there on the internet and make full use out of it. The Children’s Internet Protection Act, signed into law in 2000, is a document that regulates the exposure of inappropriate content to children. The key to teaching kids internet hygiene is to balance between those.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In one study, even after all students were provided with a laptop computer, internet access, and headphones, low-income students’ school attendance and engagement were consistently less frequent than their higher-income peers (An, 2021). Some students lacked necessary resources. So now, we’re all back at school, but things have changed.

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Fairness Schools Social Studies Internet 297

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2020

The library includes books both in English and Spanish for grades K-6 and is accessible to users using nearly any device with internet access. The books are organized by subject and reading level making it easy to find the books that will interest your students while they are reading at home.

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English Accessibility Internet Grades 214

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

AudioPen is an AI-powered tool that converts voice notes into text that’s easy to read and ready to share with students and fellow teachers. Clicking on the Brisk extension lets teachers see the reading level of any text on the internet. Students in a classroom learn and consume information differently.

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Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

A couple months ago, I wrote a post entitled “the end of reading,” predicting that in the next couple decades reading would outlive its usefulness and become extinct. Reading has a unique role to play in the world of education. “But, I taught myself to read at the age of two”, you say!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Workshops on internet and information literacy. As leaders, librarians are prepared to guide students through reading and research processes at the same time that they offer necessary support to teachers. Access to audiobooks and online tutorials. Online or in-person tutorials on how to use video-, audio- or photo-editing software.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Today, nearly three-quarters of K-12 school districts provide internet bandwidth at a minimum rate of 1 megabit per second, according to the 2023 Report on School Connectivity. On the 1st Day of Edtech, our story focuses on the E-rate program.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Students asked to produce writing on digital documents may not have access to a device and a reliable internet connection to complete that work and submit it digitally. by January 8th , we’ll send you the “Active Reading Observation Journal” Choice Board that you can begin using right away!

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

In the average district, white and more affluent students lost about the same amount of ground in reading and math as Black and Hispanic students and students from low-income families. The report offers some insight into why school districts experienced a wide range of academic losses during the pandemic.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

This student often struggled with reading instructions and questions, which made it difficult to participate in the general education classroom. For reading comprehension exercises, Classkick’s built-in text-to-speech feature makes reading comprehension activities more accessible for all students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. I was especially struck by the show’s two-part series on “ The Paradox of Pleasure ,” which analyzed the challenges of coping with the addictive lures of the internet and other tech. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its very expensive. Through one of our internet providers, families can also get internet access for $10 per month. Thats what this is designed to do.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

People were just applying approaches to information on the internet that weren't really appropriate to the internet, that people were applying some of these pre-internet approaches that weren't really applicable.” Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. I mean, that's horrible, horrible advice.

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Internet Attention Students Evaluation 215

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Many educators who use Vernier probeware in their classroom have noted a deeper engagement and understanding when students watch an event and collect data simultaneously when compared to only reading a table of measurements in a textbook.

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Science Mobile Devices Teaching STEM 319

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. One roadblock Sparks encountered was internet access. About 93 percent of Kanawha students report having Wi-Fi at home, so that left some students without an internet connection and a way to access lessons.

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