A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

If you were to go back in time and pinpoint when disruption began to take off, I would wager that it correlates with the proliferation of the smartphone. Had it not been for the smartphone their innovative apps might never have come to fruition or experienced immense scalability as they have. Powerful learning devices.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 29, 2024

Benefits of Interactive Digital Textbooks Enriched Learning Experience Personalized Learning Opportunity Accessibility and Portability Collaborative Learning Sustainable Mode of Learning III. Future Trends in Interactive Digital Textbooks Virtual and Augmented Reality Artificial Intelligence Mobile Learning IV.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? E-learning is mobile. Kids live in the same world as we do, and they keep up pretty well in terms of mobile devices ownership.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 8, 2020

Mobile Internet Offers. As schools all around the country are closing due to COVID-19 and classrooms are moving online, many districts are scrambling to support their educators and students with distance learning. Mobile Internet Offers. Mint Mobile (T-Mobile network). Boost Mobile (Sprint network).

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Digital learning tools are the pen and paper of our time. Digital technology is the lens through which we are experiencing the world now. In typical classrooms, students learn from textbooks or lectures and then solve the problems given at the end of the chapter. It’s a great app for field trips. About the author.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

We believe the digital learning initiative has been a foundation for their success. Kendra LeRoy: Connecting to today’s smartphone-toting parents. In the past three years, our attendance rates have increased, along with our assessment scores in grades 3 through 8.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2015

How are students using mobile devices for educational purposes? Next page: How students and smartphones mix. Googling, tweeting and texting are an integral part of Professor Andres Caiaffa’s classroom’s culture. “As

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And Urdan says Duolingo brought a mobile-first approach to the sector. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7 Duolingo has a few things going for itself.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. Phil Hill, a prominent edtech consultant, told me that because Africans are forced to introduce mobile, not as an add-on, but as a priority, “from day one, Africans optimize digital learning for mobile. While here in the U.S.,

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In general, education in the metaverse relies on the use of avatars, digital representations of users, which students can use to interact with one another. Educators can also interact within these digital learning spaces using their own avatars, resulting in a classroom situation within a virtual learning environment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

A separate Pew Research Center survey found that 17 percent of adults access the internet exclusively through smartphones. That can make it tough to move to a digital workflow even when classes are meeting as scheduled. And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

The school is not only getting advanced devices powered by our latest processor technology and access to connectivity—many of these schools don't even have WiFi available—but also introduced to curriculum teacher training and assessment elements to model the embracing of digital learning that can occur. We can't ignore them.

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Veative

JUNE 14, 2018

Setting this up in schools can be time consuming, requiring such mundane tasks as loading the content in the smartphone, adjusting it once inside, and sufficiently deleting once the learning module is used. The post Virtual Reality Headsets in the Classroom – All-In-One or Mobile? This has to be considered.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Photomath is free and simple to use and acts as a digital math tutor for students and parents struggling with math homework. By scanning a handwritten or printed math problem from a smartphone, Photomath uses computer vision and machine learning to recognize and instantly solve basic arithmetic to advanced calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015. Most high schoolers have a way to send an email from home, whether it’s from a smartphone or a family computer. Subscribe today! Their peers can fill in the gaps.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

For education, this means heavy focus should be placed on incorporating not only digital materials in the classroom, but incorporating mobile devices in class and mobile strategies within the school or institution. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ].

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2021

A large interactive display —equipped with the tools needed for instant collaboration—can be the centerpiece of a learning environment. Notes are easily shared across remote laptops, desktop PCs, smartphones or tablets, allowing remote students to actively collaborate with their classmates.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Because students will need to be digitally literate to be successful in the workplace, I sought a way to keep things relevant, engaging, and valuable through technology. My solution was to find digital learning tools that are fun and produce valuable learning opportunities.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Managing Smartphones in the Classroom. Smartphones are a monumental challenge for teachers and schools. Or on the other, is it possible to harness the potential of smartphones as learning tools? Or on the other, is it possible to harness the potential of smartphones as learning tools?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

Learning is more digital than ever and it will only continue in that direction. But along the advantages and immense potential of digital learning, threats are lurking in the binary universe as well. Digital security threats can come from new and unexpected sources. Today’s students are digital natives.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Balancing access to educational resources with security needs remains a top challenge for school district IT leaders, according to new findings from the Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning. Students are leveraging more online content and social media for communication than ever before.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. Digital equity and access, particularly outside of school, remains an issue important to administrators.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Members of Ray’s lab take mobile VR tech tools into K-12 schools, where students and police participate together in simulations and conversations about how law enforcement officers interact with the public. Even students accustomed to using smartphones are often surprised and excited to try the immersive technology, Ray says.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 11, 2019

This is the digital age. Although this isn’t really a game, but rather, it’s a digital learning session. The child smiles and moves to the next learning chapter. Benefits of Digital Technology in Pre-K Learning. A child of age four picks up an iPad and starts a game. Enhanced Hand-Eye Coordination.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 29, 2022

As education goes online driven by the evolution in digital technologies and the COVID 19 pandemic, several companies are wooing the learners, academic institutions, and corporate houses with powerful tools to conduct online and blended learning programs. 4 Key Challenges for Digital Publishing. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 11, 2016

Suggestions to Heed if you Want to Make Sure Your Mobile App or Content is Easy to Use This post is geared primarily towards ed tech developers and technologists, as opposed to our typical articles. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. Related: Do Millennials Learn Better on Mobile Devices.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Cybercriminals often use mobile IoT devices to get inside the institute’s network. These include laptops, desktops, smartphones, or tablets that students use to enhance digital learning. Hence, educational institutions must include mobile security as a part of their cyber security strategies.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2016

As mobile technology becomes more commonplace in classrooms and nearly ubiquitous for school leaders, the convenience of having access to emails, text messages, social media and other tools might be taken for granted. These 7 edu convenience tools offer functionality and ease of use.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

However, it is possible to use the digital universe to encourage the habit of reading. Being able to read on tablets, smartphones and even e-readers , besides being very practical, is an excellent way to motivate young people who do not let go of the small screens to discover the world of reading. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2019

Well, they sure are cute, but what you need to really notice here is that they are already familiar with how to use a smartphone! Basically, there’s interaction happening, and that is what attracts them towards a mobile phone. Schools and universities understand the power of digital technology that kids find so appealing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

An astounding 98 percent of children aged 8 and under have access to a tablet, mobile device or computer within their household. With 96 percent of adults owning a smartphone , app use constitutes most of our time on our device.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Chando explained that Microsoft Teams’ efforts to support asynchronous learning were also driven by a desire to “make sure that we have equity in access” between students with reliable internet and those without. In many ways, the process for making such changes to products resembles what companies had done in the past.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Leaders have largely had to find their own way, spurring a hodgepodge of local innovations. on April 10, 2020.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 22, 2020

Here are a few tools that have become increasingly more popular for educators in the digital age. GroupMe is a mobile group messaging app owned by Microsoft. The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Windows 10, though a smartphone is not required to participate with GroupMe. Tool #1: GroupMe.

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