Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., Ballard understands that better than most.

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Edthena

JUNE 3, 2022

That’s the reason why teacher self-reflection is included in most schools’ professional learning standards and rubrics. Luckily, technology can make the self-reflection process easier for teachers to effectively improve their teaching practices. Technology such as AI Coach by Edthena can serve as a teacher self-reflection tool.

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Vizor

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. Therefore, in this blog, we are going to review 5 technology workflows your school needs before getting Chromebooks. That’s where this technology workflow comes in.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. Legends of Learning has an amazing game based science experiences for students in 3-8 aligning with Next Generation Science and select state standards. Is technology a distraction? Listen Now.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

It proposes four questions that policymakers and educational stakeholders should reflect upon as technology is being deployed in education: Is it appropriate? Using technology can improve some types of learning in some contexts. Is it equitable?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Students would laugh as the teachers mumbled about the annoyances of technology. Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the shift to technology adoption in schools. However, this push to digitize doesn’t just involve remote learning technologies, but also tools for in-person learning. Why is engagement important?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Those are examples of the broader promise and end results. Digital Equity.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If newer technologies can foster creativity in students then educators must seriously think about how they can incorporate them into their classroom teaching strategies. The unfortunate truth is that, by and large, students view the classroom as a place where they are forced to learn via long-established teaching methods.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Those are examples of the broader promise and end results. Digital Equity.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Learning comes alive for students and the future moves within reach. . Those are examples of the broader promise and end results. Digital Equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

I asked Isabelle Hau, the executive director of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, to share about the potential benefits and challenges of AI in early learning. So discussion around how to leverage, for example, computer vision or some form of voice inputs in classrooms, or some gamified approaches that are AI-based.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Despite the dramatic impact technology has had on education, many classroom structures and teaching methods haven’t changed much over the years. The SCALE-UP classroom is one example of these dramatic shifts. SCALE-UP is turning many aspects of the traditional classroom upside-down, including how technology is used.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

While it is important to assess students’ learning and keep some records of what skills they have mastered, the more important process of learning involves dialogue, teacher feedback, student learning conversations and self-reflection. Still, we needed to identify the most important and critical areas to focus on.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The new National Education Technology Plan offers a vision and roadmap for technology-supported learning. A new federal National Education Technology Plan reveals 21 recommendations for policymakers, administrators, teachers and teacher preparation professionals. Next page: The 21 technology recommendations.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Simply adding technology to a classroom doesn’t make it an innovative space. Leaders looking to shift learning must think more holistically. Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray share their expertise on modern learning spaces. How does the technology actually improve on what we’ve done in the past?” meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The new National Education Technology Plan offers a vision and roadmap for technology-supported learning. A new federal National Education Technology Plan reveals 21 recommendations for policymakers, administrators, teachers and teacher preparation professionals. Next page: The 21 technology recommendations.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 14, 2022

Over the last two days I have attended 2 different #MyFest22 presentations ( Accessibility Crowdsourcing for Digital Literacies Toolkit and Open Learning Journey Week 2 Kickoff) where the heart of the discussion was the question: what happens if a student or community is unable to access learning (tools, resources, content, courses)?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

One opportunity worth exploring is a proposed digital early learning pilot program in North Carolina, which is designed to better prepare at-risk youth for kindergarten. Regardless of whether the program is Waterford Upstart or other high-quality alternatives such as Khan Academy Kids and Learn with Homer , the overall goal is the same.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Some districts are using fully remote learning models to start, some are opting for hybrid models, while others are implementing new safety protocols to begin in-person learning. Eighty-four percent said they felt “very” or “completely” prepared to support their child with doing schoolwork at home.

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TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

Previously on TeacherCast , we looked at how an Instructional Coaches Newsletter can be set up and created to support teachers in all types of school districts and coaching programs. In that post, we learned: What can a Coaching Newsletter do for an Instructional Coach. To Help Teachers Learn about” something”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

But it was only the first that the event convened a room full of researchers, entrepreneurs and practitioners to showcase innovations in early childhood development and learning. It’s not just technology,” she said, echoing a point made by others throughout the day. Innovation isn’t just about plugging something in.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. When McClary joined the district as the manager of educational technology in 2014, progress was less than stellar. no implementation support? It includes $4.6

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 6, 2017

Parents often find technology a roadblock to helping their children with classwork. With that comes either disinterest or pushback against your efforts to blend tech into learning. With that comes either disinterest or pushback against your efforts to blend tech into learning. Both are dangerous to your teaching goals.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

EdSurge: How is math instruction evolving, and how does technology support this? It’s really helped my students make fewer mistakes and learn the process. But if you jump in and realize the advantages, you will find yourself quickly learning how to use it. I’ve never experienced support like this before.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Welcome to a series of posts that are dedicated to going beyond the shine of technology by examining ways to use digital tools to engage students in real learning. In this fifth post you will discover how careful examination of the verbs in a standard can help you find resources to assist in proper technology integration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

A frequent question from readers revolves around technology goals for students. But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It scaffolds learning, making it blended, normative, rigorous, and granular. Everyone who uses technology knows it breaks down.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

The interventions support the eight to eleven percent of all children in DC who have signs, symptoms or diagnosable emotional and mental health conditions, including those related to trauma. Why did you decide to adopt special education case management technology? For example, a critical support we provide is school crisis response.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The answer is to value staff by providing them with relevant learning opportunities as they work. In many large organisations today this is changing, with learning and development now conducted largely while employees are on the move, or sitting at their work stations. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class.

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TeacherCast

JULY 24, 2022

Previously on TeacherCast , we looked at how an Instructional Coaches Newsletter can be set up and created to support teachers in all types of school districts and coaching programs. They might fill their newsletters with videos, blog post links, and other digital learning goodies. You might do this in two steps.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2018

Our Summer SuperHighway blog series celebrates the educators that inspire us and showcases the ways that digital learning impacts their students. I feel like their generation was brought up around technology. What kinds of technology do your students use in the classrooms? Technology is useful for me every day.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration? The technology was supposed to let teachers share their screens without being tethered to a desk.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. New digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0

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