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.” Spierenburg likens AR to a safety net for students. “It You don’t need any special hardware.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Mobile devices are the pencil, paper, and textbooks for students today. Is your school ready to onboard hundreds of mobile devices at the same time? Drivers for Wi-Fi adoption in K-12 school districts. Will students have to wait, idle and disengaged, while your IT staff troubleshoots connectivity problems?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and 77% of school districts have high speed broadband. Thankfully, increasingly accessible technology is allowing teachers to look beyond textbooks, worksheets, and five paragraph essays. For many schools, this isn’t for lack of technology. Insist on quality.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. Since introducing the iPad initiative, Lynn has adopted a comprehensive system for ongoing e-textbook development. They help you explore the topic more deeply,” she says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

The conferences were the most publicly visible part of SIIA’s education programming, attracting executives from big textbook publishers along with their peers from major technology companies with growing education footprints, including Apple and Microsoft. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Available as a 30-day free trial and for a site-license subscription, Vernier Video Analysis enables students to use their Chromebook or another mobile device to insert a video with recorded motion and mark points to track the object in motion.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

IXL’s skills are aligned to content in 21 popular textbooks, making lesson planning easier. In addition, IXL guides teachers to the specific skills that align to more than 35 math textbooks. . The IXL app provides a fun, immersive experience for students of all levels, and is available on all major mobile devices.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Hopefully we all realize by now that our environment of mobile devices connected to the Internet constitutes the dominant information landscape of our time. Given the necessity of the Internet in our lives and the need to teach students digital empowerment and citizenship, the emphasis should be on opening up rather than closing down.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

All you need (for VR) is the Expeditions app, a mobile device or Chrome OS, and a Cardboard or Daydream viewer. If you’re teaching from textbooks and your students yawn too much (or don’t study for tests), try VR. It is designed to be explored with Google Cardboard.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

I have experimented with writing open textbooks, thanks to the inspiration I received from Robin DeRosa on episodes 183 and 195. For example, at a recent speaking event, I was asked about how to address the issue of students potentially being distracted by their mobile devices in classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2018

More so, today’s education prioritizes mobile devices which don’t have the ability to read these mediums. For instance, seeing an interactive 3D model of an atom is a lot more valuable than simply reading about it in a textbook or slides. As mentioned above, mobile devices are going to become essential inside the classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. And they’re put out by recognized names in education — Khan Academy, BBC, Microsoft, Teacher Tube, as well as textbook providers like Origo. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. Education.com Songs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2015

I’ve worked with other mobile device managers, and I think this is definitely the simplest. So like most kids get textbooks, these kids got Chromebooks. The main administrative controller is so simple to operate as far as allowing permissions, adding apps, setting restrictions, adding users, organizational units, etc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Here’s more information on that option. Things to know.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Unlike traditional textbooks and library resources, Kiddom content providers are internet-based making them accessible from anywhere, on desktops and mobile devices, and easily blended into classroom lesson plans.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids. These are blended programs, so they’re not just a textbook. There’s a body of work we’ve been doing for a long time around diagnosing reading and math issues in young kids—these are observational assessments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

If you have students who still hunt-and-peck, who fall behind on homework because they’re searching for the F key (or any of the other 25 letter keys), or try to “thumb” the keyboard as they do a mobile device, you know this often doesn’t work (see this article from the Washington Post on keyboarding in the classroom).

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This new approach is fueled by trends that have impacted academic publishing over the past decade, including: The Rental Market: Companies like Wiley report textbook rental as the major cause for their recent 27% revenue decline in their Q3 (compared to 2016). We can’t merely digitize a textbook,” said Costantini. But it’s all doable.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The tool, which recently surpassed more than one million flashcards, uses artificial intelligence to generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and other quiz-based flashcards from user-uploaded PDFs, URLs, or even photos of handwritten notes or textbooks taken using the PrepFlash mobile app. It’s been used for more than 2.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2017

It has the advantage of generally being more engaging than a dusty textbook, especially since today’s students are digital natives. Build tech products that are hands-on and not behind screens Edtech is often immediately associated with tablets, mobile devices and computers, but that leaves many important tools out.

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