eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2024

Keep them reading Students in grades 3-5 often lose an average of 20 percent of the reading progress they made during the previous year, so it’s vital that they choose to keep reading even when school’s not in session. Selecting a summer program can be daunting.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2017

classrooms (accounting for more than half the mobile devices shipped to schools) is signaling a “profound shift in American education;” and they’re calling it the “Googlification of the classroom.” But is Googlifiction spurring a much bigger shift in today’s K-12 classrooms than simply switching devices?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Apps are fun and engaging tools for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to use digital resources with students. It can be used in math class or as a critical thinking lesson. There isn’t much reading involved, so it can be used with pre-readers or English language learners.

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JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges. But where to start?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. Beanstack helps educators and librarians encourage reading by making it easy to create and promote reading challenges for their communities. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly common in schools because they cost so much less than computers—especially since so many students are willing to bring their own devices to school. Another advantage of having students compose their written work on mobile devices is the ability to save and organize work.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Turnitin ’s Feedback Studio for iPad app has merged the benefits of mobile technology with the power of learning and engagement through feedback. More than ever, students use mobile devices to manage their assignments. Global learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the launch of GO Math! Read more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

the developer of Canada’s most widely used all-digital math program. Headquartered near Toronto, Rubicon is the provider of MathUP, an inquiry-based math program for students in grades K-8 that has become the best-selling online math product in Canada. To learn more, visit Rubicon.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Smartpads pair with any paper and can project onto a PC or mobile device in real-time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. You can just use your phone or any mobile device.” Dawson is just as excited about using AR in math and science classes.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

“It’s incredibly rewarding that IXL Math and English Language Arts are recognized by the CODiE Awards as the most effective ways for learners to master essential concepts,” said Paul Mishkin, CEO of IXL Learning. In addition, IXL guides teachers to the specific skills that align to more than 35 math textbooks. .

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. The app offers a library of books and videos and 2,400 learning activities across 22 sessions covering math and reading.

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MAY 22, 2023

Studies vary on how much knowledge students lose during the summer months–some say up to two months of reading and math skills –and results are heavily-dependent upon demographics, but the loss is real. Here are nineteen suggestions students will enjoy: Math Youngers: Take a picture of making change at the store.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Advancements on the consumer side—where we see things like accessible mobile devices and the new digital assistants—have raised expectations in the community of individuals with disabilities who use assistive technologies at home in their daily lives. How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

“Most of our preschool kids who are native Spanish speakers come to school without anybody having read to them,” said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko. Most of the parents of those children are not even literate in Spanish, so they’re not reading books of any kind.”. fourth graders read at or above proficiency.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Whether your role is as an administrator, teacher, parent, or student leader, if you’re reading this, you are probably interested in helping other school community stakeholders understand the power of technology in a teaching and learning environment. Are they analyzing data or using math to solve real world problems?

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Kajeet ’s ConnectEdNow campaign , announced in June, aims to make broadband access more affordable by providing students with portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices, a $200 mobile device subsidy and discounted data plans from Verizon , T-Mobile and other LTE providers. Broadband access still is limited in some rural areas.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2016

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. Every Friday, I’ll recap some of the most interesting and thought-provoking news developments that occurred over the week. A bigger annual cap isn’t the only recent change to the E-rate program.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Representation For many students who learn differently, their days are filed with worksheets and other print materials that they are unable to read. Apps like Seeing AI , Claro Scan Pen and Prizmo Go use the camera on your mobile device to take a picture of text and then read it aloud.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device. Once the code is read (which happens within seconds), it will automatically activate the data. For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem, the QR code will take them to help.

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APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. Older students can also read articles on living wages through the United States. This app works on desktops as well as mobile devices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Starfish Early Alert and Connect solutions, and organized a pilot of 25 English and math first-level, for-credit, gateway course sections that enrolled a total of about 600 students in Fall 2014. They are getting the messages through the system; they are reading them, but sometimes they are not responding through the system.”

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MARCH 29, 2022

When kids read that America’s $30 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. Older students can also read articles on living wages through the United States. This app works on desktops as well as mobile devices.

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Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 24, 2015

Students will be turned off from reading or math if they’re constantly required to tackle content or lessons that are too difficult for them to understand. Encourage students to interact with their classmates in a safe manner using tools like Whooo’s Reading , ClassChatter or even Google Docs with Gaggle Safety Management.

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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. More specifically, he adds, “we need [solutions] that work when electricity fails, and things that don’t need much data.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device. Once the code is read (which happens within seconds), it will automatically activate the data. For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem, the QR code will take them to help.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students? With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. 126 on the waiting list.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device. Once the code is read (which happens within seconds), it will automatically activate the data. For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem, the QR code will take them to help.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The resulting picture is easy to read from anywhere in the room and the sound is clear and crisp, never garbled. It can be plugged into a heavy base for free-standing use or directly into a laptop for greater mobility. Applications for the Classroom. But there’s more: Record videos or audio and share it. What’s Coming UP.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device. Once the code is read (which happens within seconds), it will automatically activate the data. For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem, the QR code will take them to help.

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APRIL 5, 2018

The site includes Common Core Math Standards addressed with play. Older students can also read articles on living wages through the United States. This app works on desktops as well as mobile devices. The app also includes which Common Core Math Standards are addressed by the gameplay. How the Stock Market Works.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. Education.com Songs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Among them: a blog post from a Microsoft executive, touting new Windows devices that provide “more options for schools who don’t want to compromise on Chromebooks.” K-12 mobile devices, Microsoft still has some catching up to do. percent of K-12 mobile computing shipments in the United States, whereas Windows had a 22.3

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device. Once the code is read (which happens within seconds), it will automatically activate the data. For example, if the student forgets how to solve a math problem, the QR code will take them to help.

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Mobile Devices Art Grades Activities 100

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Both are based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Harold Gardner’s iconic model for mapping out learning modalities such as linguistic, hands-on, kinesthetic, math, verbal, and art. Understanding how they learn explains why they remember more when they write something down or read their notes rather than listening to a lecture.

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MAY 22, 2017

Studies vary on how much knowledge students lose during the summer months–some say up to two months of reading and math skills –and results are heavily-dependent upon demographics, but the loss is real. Here are nineteen suggestions students will enjoy: Math. Any age: Read ebooks.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

It can be used at home, in school, or as an extracurricular tool for teaching STEAM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). To get started, I needed a mobile device (like an iPhone, Android phone, or an iPad–the latter is recommended), a Bluetooth connection, and a risk-takers mentality.

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