EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Then, flipped classrooms and blended learning introduced compelling ways of leveraging digital tools to maximize instructional time and student-teacher interactions. Here I consider some of the promises and pitfalls of using smart technologies in our learning communities. Your personal digital information is a commodity.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Technology in K-12 classrooms can revolutionize education Choosing the right edtech requires a thoughtful and strategic approach Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News Technology transforms K-12 education by enhancing engagement, personalizing learning, and fostering collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Enter the power of virtual technology. SPICE was meeting all of their learners’ needs except one, rural isolation, and this drove their focus on using technology to strengthen their program. In 2008, SPICE was already using technology in innovative ways. The Center’s anytime, anywhere learning alleviates attendance issues.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We’re providing flexible, learner-centered, blended learning environments, including access to inter­active curriculum for teachers, students, and parents. Districts around the country are enacting similar plans, and many start by deciding on what technology to use in the classroom. The purpose of Blueprint 2.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

I’ve known Sheila a long time and am profoundly impressed by how she passionately and energetically blends technology authentically into the learning lives of her students. I quickly assessed that the teachers didn’t realize that they will provide instructions regarding the technology their students will use.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, has interesting ideas on blending tech with tradition: Balancing Technology With Traditional Teaching To Enhance Performance In Class. However, blended learning takes the positive aspects of technology and combines them with tried and tested teaching methods.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

This will take many forms, from institutions evolving their operations to students optimizing their learning with technology to caregivers connecting directly with their children’s education through edtech services. To implement these technologies, edtechs must first establish a solid foundation and strategy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Instructional Technology Coaches can be helpful advisors for teachers if they learn strategies of encouragement and empowerment. Deb Ramm helps us learn the techniques to help powerful improvement happen in classrooms. What kind of things did you have to do to shift from classroom teacher to instructional technology leader?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

In response to the urgent need, LEANLAB worked with local philanthropy and the SchoolSmartKC coalition to fund and disburse emergency technology relief for the region’s most vulnerable students and families. million in funds to provide 1,528 laptops, tablets, and devices, as well as 869 hotspots for local students.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Some schools are relying on several different technologies, creating an environment that is no longer level.”. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how technology is key for boosting equity. The program covers blended learning and project-based learning. 3 Challenges of Digital Design for K–12 Classrooms.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Now more than ever HE is receiving students with different expectations of what a learning environment should look like. For example, information has to be readily accessible and technology an integral part of the learning experience. Students need to develop critical thinking skills and practice what they learn.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Welcome to this second post in a series that promotes PBL and 21st Century Learning through the examination of Seven Building Blocks. In this second post, I would like to build the idea of the Building Block I call Blended with Technology. In a sense this could be correct, although it depends on the definition of technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Limited quantities on desktops, gaming laptops, high quality monitors, thunderbolt docks, wireless mice and more. Check the deals out today at www.dell.com/epp/coolcatteacher and enjoy some awesome new technology this holiday season! They have everything from computers, gaming, laptops, or even a slick wireless mouse.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Related: Organic adoption of one technology leads to a seamless way to blend others. Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 20, 2018

Portable devices feature strongly in our blog, because they are a powerful way for teachers to design learning modules that students then can carry with them and complete wherever they are. 7 PROs and CONs of m-learning in the classroom. So, then, why all the hoopla about m-learning? In the end.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Trox , a leading North American provider of education technology and collaboration solutions, today announced the launch of its new proprietary Trox SHIELD SM Protection Program for Chromebooks and other mobile devices. Trox SHIELD helps educators protect their technology investment by ensuring that mobile devices and remain in circulation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

This past semester I had the opportunity to observe two elementary classrooms using technology in new and exciting ways. One was a fifth-grade class at Whelan Elementary School in North Providence, Rhode Island, that had just agreed to begin a commercial personalized learning program.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Add a Dash of Professional Development to Your Blended-Learning Program. That technology includes HP and Lenovo laptops, tablets, G Suite for Education, NEC projectors , eBeam , Schoology learning management system, LanSchool classroom management software and Kajeet hotspots (for students to use at home). “A

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 30, 2021

If you change devices (for example, if you lose your phone or get a new laptop), you’ll get your synced info back. Blended Learning with Google NOW AVAILABLE! My new book, Blended Learning with Google is now available for educators across the globe. Remote Learning Tips. Google Templates.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One way to achieve this is to use technology games and platforms that can be used for both learning and relationship-building. . Even before the pandemic, I’ve always been in pursuit of learning about ways to engage students without long periods of lecture. It helps with accountability and also keeps the students stimulated.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One way to achieve this is to use technology games and platforms that can be used for both learning and relationship-building. . Even before the pandemic, I’ve always been in pursuit of learning about ways to engage students without long periods of lecture. It helps with accountability and also keeps the students stimulated.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 laptops. First-year e-learning coach for South Ripley Community Schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Related: Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities? We’ve found that committing to focus on school readiness, partnering with community organizations, and looking to technology for an assist when needed, can go a long way toward helping provide students with the right tools to succeed. Find your focus.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

We discuss at length in this blog the benefits of a blended learning environment , where students — empowered with digital tools and access — take control of their learning, thereby creating a more inviting, engaging and successful learning environment.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2023

What is a Digital Learning Platform? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. The learning material can be in the form of courses, multimedia content, archives and evaluations.

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Saving Socrates

OCTOBER 17, 2013

How does this relate to technology and different teaching methods you ask? This year, we have a unique opportunity to recreate the learning experience for our students. Having been given a rather large grant (BOLD, Blended Online Learning Day Schools), we had ambitious goals, we still do. That I knew. Good question!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? From the Trough of Disillusionment Toward the Slope of Enlightenment: Blended Learning. That’s tougher to say.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2022

As I’m reflecting on this past school year, I think it’s the strongest bond I’ve ever built with a group of students, thanks in part to technology and the community building that had to initially happen in our virtual classroom. This works so well for educators who are virtually teaching on a laptop or only have one monitor.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

One way to achieve this is to use technology games and platforms that can be used for both learning and relationship-building. Even before the pandemic, I’ve always been in pursuit of learning about ways to engage students without long periods of lecture. It helps with accountability and also keeps the students stimulated.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

I had spent two exciting hours (about half of it with my mouth open) in a complete flow state exploring a new virtual reality world using the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset on my Acer Aspire 7 laptop with Windows Mixed Reality by Microsoft. And while some espouse a Ready Player One- type of environment, I do not.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2019

Teachers began by exploring the why and what for personalized learning by focusing on blended learning as one of the first paths to personalization. I’ve had this quote from the “Innovator’s Mindset” by George Couros on a post-it on my laptop for years. It serves as my daily gut-check in everything I do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.

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edWeb.net

JULY 19, 2022

Joyce Whitby, CEO and Co-founder of Innovations4Education and panel moderator, kicked off the session with a poll question for attendees, asking, “What’s your biggest motivation for using more technology in the classroom?”. Leveraging technology is one way to meet the challenge. Hybrid Learning and Flipped Classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. So, what happened?

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

What is the ideal blended learning environment? I have had a lot of noneducators talk to me about technology in the classroom. Many ask me what the best device is for learning. Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. This is another frequently asked question.

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