Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

To get my students to a point where they are able to choose strategies independently and problem-solve with autonomy, I have to intentionally engineer the learning environment to promote autonomous decision-making. One tool that does this remarkably well is Seesaw, a digital portfolio available on both desktop and mobile devices.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. This article will discuss some of the best tools for tutoring math online, and the way they can help teachers to improve their student’s skills. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of software tools for students with sensory or learning disabilities. It can be a challenge to meet those expectations.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The focus on improving organization is almost always teacher facing, not from the learner’s perspective. Teachers have little time to plan or communicate with peers about what is going on in their classrooms. The focus on improving organization is almost always teacher facing, not from the learner’s perspective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Gutenberg Project. One More Story.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. Earlier this spring, the school piloted pouches with 13 teachers, who locked up students’ phones for the duration of their classes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. The school’s one-to-one iPad program gives every student a sixth-generation iPad and every teacher a MacBook Air laptop and iPad Pro device.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the gaming industry, the term usually refers to a game played on a console or other device that connects to a TV, a handheld player, a computer or mobile device, and most game developers would say a video game involves rules and mechanisms to achieve goals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

The end of the school year is a time when both students and teachers alike are distracted by thoughts of vacation, sleeping in, and no deadlines. Teachers create a class account. Many students need help to learn the right way to keyboard and how to type with speed and accuracy. You can sign in as a teacher or student.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies. When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. Video Observation for Teacher PD. Whole-Class Learning is Here.

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