A Principal's Reflections

JULY 8, 2018

We still have a long way to go in many places, but the increase in access provides kids with an array of innovative learning opportunities that continue to evolve. Since the kids weren’t bringing in the devices, I inquired as to how they made it into the classroom. I can relate to this as well.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This framework focuses on turning students from consumers to content creators through game-based learning and computational thinking (CT) skills while developing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Scratch is a free coding learning platform with a simple interface available in more than 70 languages.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

It has replaced my use of iMovie in the classroom with my students because it is more robust. I’ll also dive into some of the features that have me most excited as a classroom teacher. For these reasons, gridlines are a must-use in my classroom. To access these features, just toggle from Auto to Pro.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The transformation to virtual learning means teachers now act as the tech support for students and parents who are also new to virtual learning. Use screencasts to help students and parents navigate your learning management system, complete and turn in digital assignments, or understand how to use a new tool.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

The world of mobile teaching and learning seems to be getting smaller and smaller and Nearpod is no exception. Last week, they brought their interactive and dynamic tool to iPhone. When opening the app, you are presented with three options: My Library – access and launch presentations that you have created from your computer.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

What are the best-flipped learning apps for K-12 grades in flipped classrooms? The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. Khan Academy. Open Culture for K-12 Grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2022

C-Span provides Americans with access to live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. Also included are direct access to elected and appointed individuals, audience call-ins to officials, audience-created videos, lesson plans for educators, and more. Best classroom strategy: Post all of these resources on an Election-themed page.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

My students love doing any learning when they get to brainstorm on their desks with a dry erase marker. Before students play with the concept mapping tools listed, I have them first learn about concept maps. Access a library of shapes, containers, stylized fonts and more. Concept Mapping Tools. Whiteboard.fi

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. AI is everywhere. Smith says. “If

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Technology has now facilitated the whole process enabling teachers to cut down classroom prep time and, instead, focus on creating hands-on learning experiences for students. It allows them to easily organize their lessons and subjects in visually appealing timetables accessible on the go.

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

With the release of iOS 11 in September of 2017 came a great new feature which can have multiple uses in classrooms. The ability to video record what is happening on an iPad or iPhone screen, as well as narrate over the recording, is now a built-in feature of iOS devices. You can view the slides that are in the video below.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 18, 2017

Bill Selak @ billselak shares how he’s using Amazon’s Alexa via the Echo and Dot in the classroom. Bill is currently obsessed with sharing his professional learning on Snapchat. Parker, Diana Maher, Always Learning Admin, and Teacher Mike. The Amazon Echo in the classroom. Transcript. About the Podcast.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

So it seemed like a good time to ask what she learned over the past decade, how COVID has changed teaching and what advice she has for other edtech entrepreneurs. A big push that we started to do with COVID was to make our website mobile accessible" because some students lacked enough laptops at home.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 20, 2016

Put that in the context of learning and what do you get? Mobile learning of course. Mobile learning is now a movement and it’s not just about picking up a tablet and off you go. Mobile learning is about transforming how everyone can access shared knowledge and resources. But that’s just the start.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Augmented Reality (AR) has exploded in the past few years, mainly due to the easy access provided by our mobile devices. The experiences are much more realistic and captivating for the user—and when these resources are in our classrooms, our learners are blown away.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2017

Though fairly new, Sway has taken over classroom production of visual presentations because the result is visually appealing while minimizing the amount of time students spend formatting a project, giving them lots more time to research and write. Sway works in Windows, on iPads, iPhones, and desktops. How to get started.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 9, 2024

The post No Child Left Offline: Confronting the Mental Health Crisis in the Smartphone Era appeared first on Shake Up Learning. But my bottom line has always been learning. This blog is about learning, not just about technology. It’s no secret that I love technology. The reality, however, was far from what we anticipated.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The technology I use in my classroom everyday? Powerschool Learning is today’s sponsor. They are the Learning Management System (LMS) I use. Topics include: Tools I use in my classroom every day. ” Want to learn more about cool tools? Powerschool Learning [link]. Check them out. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Every Earth Day, someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. digital portfolios for students–this can be accomplished with the LMS you use, Google Apps, Google Classroom, or even Dropbox.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 19, 2020

My students love doing any learning when they get to brainstorm on their desks with a dry erase marker. Before students play with the concept mapping tools listed, I have them first learn about concept maps. Access a library of shapes, containers, stylized fonts and more. Concept Mapping Tools. Whiteboard.fi

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

Today Donnie Piercey @mrpiercey , co-author of the Google Cardboard Book , shows how we can add simple augmented reality to our classrooms. You can have a private ebook classroom and interact with your students inside their ebooks as they highlight, annotate, ask questions, and talk about the books they are reading inside their ebooks!

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

ClassDojo is a free online system that helps teachers promote positive behavior in their classroom by letting them track and share student progress and positive behaviors and areas of concern. Teachers can then walk around the classroom and reinforce positive behavior by awarding students with feedback in real-time.

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Class Tech Integrate

MARCH 8, 2018

Flipping your classroom, what does that mean? It's setting up your classroom as an asynchronous learning environment. Meaning that you can and will learn outside of the classroom: at anytime, anyplace. A flipped classroom involves communication from all stakeholders involved.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

The edtech seminar I'm teaching this semester recently explored the post-desktop world, and to get students thinking about the differences, I began with a quick exercise, asking them to rearrange the classroom into old-school rows. The iPhone, Android platform, and Kindle then took America quickly into the mobile universe.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2016

A lack of reliable internet access at home can make flipping a challenge, but by no means an impossibility. note: Jess Peterson will co-present a related session, “ Flipping the Classroom in Low-Socioeconomic Schools ,” at this year’s FETC conference in Orlando, on Friday Jan. The Barriers of Flipping the Classroom.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If it is easier to use, are we focused on creating better things with it and “deep learning,” or are we focusing on the “shine” of technology? . If you have an iPhone, do you remember taking out the manual and going over how to use your new device? But what does any of this mean in the context of education?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Apps used in your lessons should improve learning rather than just being a cool app kids might like. You may love what the app can do (like gamify math or quizzify science) but the technology required is more than you can handle, might require hours of time just to learn how to apply it. How does this apply to the selection of apps?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2012

With the rise of mobile devices and tablets in the classroom, I’m finding so many examples of organizations that are capitalizing on these tools to create new resources for teachers and students. It is a powerful tool for providing evaluation feedback and support more quickly and thoroughly to improve teacher practice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Offering three tiers of worksheets, four centers with varied ways to access content, or five levels of text was what defined a master teacher. But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning.

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Neo LMS

MAY 23, 2019

We may not realize this as they happen, but the recent advancements in technology are downright impressive; just think about the differences between an old Nokia phone and the latest iPhone or Samsung. Worldwide there’s a growing number of initiatives to include education technologies — or edtech — in the classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Writing Wizard Writing Wizard is an interactive app designed to help children learn to trace letters, numbers, and words, engaging them with a carefully crafted system that maintains motivation. The app allows for the creation of custom word lists, complete with recorded audio, and is fully customizable to meet individual learning needs.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Have a photo on your iPhone you need on your Mac? Another cool thing that can be done in this type of environment is that a picture taken on the iPhone can automatically be transferred to your computer as you take it. What about a learning environment has many types of devices? No problem, just AirDrop it!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

As high school students, we were born at the same time as the iPhone and after the launch of social media and YouTube. The way we access information and interact with each other is new. Girls everywhere need access to STEM learning beyond the classroom that gives them the freedom to be curious and explore and gain confidence in STEM.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2019

There are a lot of options if you want to bring programmable robots to your classroom. But Robo Wunderkind seems more accessible and a good way to try robotics before switching to Arduino and Raspberry Pi when your kid grows up. Suggestion : I started on my iPhone but quickly switched to my iPad. How to get started.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 27, 2021

Now it’s moving, from a singular there, to a plural everywhere –very much a new age of information and information access. The response to this access has been slow–and even when swift, it has rarely been compelling or long-lasting. And it can be accessed not simply from computers, but phones and gaming devices.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Learning to type with accuracy and speed has clear practical benefits, but there's more to it than that. To help you choose the best one for your classroom, we explored in-depth some of the best typing tools on the market and selected the best of the best below. Go to TypingClub's website. Go to search.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 20, 2019

I am wrestling with some ideas in my head…bear with me as I try to write to learn. If you have an iPhone, do you remember taking out the manual and going over how to use your new device? If you do, you are making up this experience in your head because the iPhone does not come with a manual. That is where I am struggling.

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