Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. I have the good fortune to interact with schools all around the world.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Just to get things going, here’s a recap of 2015. First, mobile learning. Sure, there were lots of devices released in 2014 and the years before, but 2015 was the mobile age. And learning platforms are starting to get mobile developers to publish mobile apps and have them updated on a regular basis.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That happened waaaay back in 2015 (which in online time seems like a few decades ago). The online world has a vast number of web and mobile applications and programs that claim to enhance critical thinking. I’m talking about that magical time when the NEO Blog first saw the light of the Internet! The NEO Blog is now 4!

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. On April 5, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

And, ownership of smartphones — mobile devices with an internet connection — has tripled in recent years among young people. In 2011, 22 percent of students starting high school had a smartphone; by 2015, the number rocketed to 68 percent. Their kids are also kept busy with dance and other activities.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Now, however, access to technology is becoming a rights issue. Digital divide: facts and figures.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 25, 2015

Images are often much easier to access on any device than video. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Current 2015 Goals. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. . Free Tools and Apps. Canva, Buncee, Tackk, and Easel.ly

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 25, 2015

Images are often much easier to access on any device than video. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals ! Current 2015 Goals. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. . Free Tools and Apps. Canva, Buncee, Tackk, and Easel.ly

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

2015 was another great year for learning apps. Of the hundreds of apps reviewed on Common Sense Graphite this year, these 12 stood out as some of the most innovative, effective, and enjoyable tools for mobile platforms. Canva is an accessible way to get kids -- especially design novices -- creating digitally in your classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were addressed a decade ago. What do you do about personal devices that circumvent the school security to access the Internet? In many schools, Internet access is spotty, undependable, and a challenge to manage. And why not?

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Educators who design learning experiences that are personal and accessible , authentic and challenging , collaborative and connected , and inquisitive and reflective create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences for their students. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Halloran School No.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of the challenges, from an African perspective is Internet access, as well as consistent power. What researchers have found is that mobile technology is widespread and heavily utilized, although the majority of mobiles are still non-smart phones with basic features. billion in education budget cuts made in 2015.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Below is the first goal of 2015. Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Collaborate with Colleagues. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Below is the first goal of 2015. Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Collaborate with Colleagues. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

Vicki: Stephen Ritz @ StephenRitz is with us today, a finalist from the 2015 Global Teacher Prize, and just a very excited amazing person who really has a green classroom. We have a Green Bronx Machine mobile classroom kitchen. Shownotes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e131. Transcript: [link]. Monday, August 21, 2017.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2015

Byte Size Potential 2015 Workshop from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. GET YOUR COPY OF THE 30 GOALS FOR TEACHERS OR LEARNING TO GO , WHICH HAS DIGITAL AND MOBILE ACTIVITIES AND HANDOUTS. Mobile Show and Tell - Divide students into small groups (3 to 5 students). Mobile Me Pictionary - Give each student 3 notecards.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. There is so much great content already published and accessible, that curation matters as much as creation. 14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 2, 2015

Find all the 2015 goals here ! Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Our third goal is send them on learning missions. Integrate Technology Effectively.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 2, 2015

Find all the 2015 goals here ! Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Our third goal is send them on learning missions. Integrate Technology Effectively.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

You have to be a Certified Innovator to have access to the group, but there are Google Plus groups out there too.). Classroom Mobile App for Android and iOS. Google Chrome Desktop Plugin lets you access another person’s Chromebook or Chrome browser from your teacher computer (or vice versa). Blog Posts. Dotson, K.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It’s an economic concern, as schools consider how they can ensure equal access for all. DEFINING EQUITY: EMPATHY, AUTHENTICITY, AND ACCESS Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, William J. Wybrant cites the North Dakota Access Pipeline as an example. The people who had the problem didn’t have access to solve it.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Find all the 2015 goals here ! Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Our second goal is be someone’s champion. Sharing an idea shows true support.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Find all the 2015 goals here ! Join the free Badgelist group for the 30 Goals to access your badges. Check out our Inspire Leaders for 2014 and sign up to be an Inspire Leader for 2015. The conference will take place June 15 to 23rd, 2015. Our second goal is be someone’s champion. Sharing an idea shows true support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. million more students left to connect.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

It is specifically optimized for these mobile devices. You can access a free trial until 12/31/2015 for general use. Today I introduce a new web browser based tool called imakiku , which is sure to enhance formative assessment in your classroom. During the class students answer the questions with “one click”.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Our schools provide internet access and offer year-round career and technology classes ,” Madden says. “We FUSD’s students have access to 65,000 Windows-based devices , mostly HP laptops and desktops. The ‘have-not’ students operate at a ­disadvantage, both in access and technology training.”.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Today’s youth are digital natives who are unaware of life without Internet access, instant communication, mobile phones and an abundance of on-demand information sitting in their pockets. Mobile devices have become a primary driver of teen Internet use: Fully 91% of teens go online from mobile devices at least occasionally.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

That’s one question we had for Kevin deLaplante, who did just that when he left Iowa State University in 2015 to focus on running his Argument Ninja Podcast and teaching courses on his online Critical Thinker Academy , both aimed at bringing concepts from his scholarship to a popular audience. In 2015 you actually left your university job.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2015

InvolvEdu is free web and mobile app for high school and university students that allows them to get credit for what they do outside of class. One of their goals includes making sure that InvolvEdu is a service that students from any background or socio-economic standing can access and use to further their academic and professional goals.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

It’s considered by pundits that the shift in access via smartphones has caused a mutation in content consumption away from only books and long-form reading. Yet there is something to the immediacy of access from smartphones that holds promise. Audiobooks, social media and smartphone newsfeeds are what Americans are doing.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 7, 2023

Youtube is a great video website that since its introduction in 2015 has revolutionized the media world in unprecedented ways. Unfortunately, YouTube does come with a number of distracting and sometimes outright inappropriate elements that make several school districts restrict its access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). 90% of teens who report being cyberbullied have also been bullied offline. ( “Seven Fears and the Science of How Mobile Technologies May Be Influencing Adolescents in the Digital Age,” George and Odgers, 2015 ). Right to digital access. Why is this so important?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2015

PROS: Portability: These little cuties are so light and mobile that kids carry them around in their backpacks or just in their cases (we have cases with shoulder straps). Accessibility: Because the Chromebook only runs cloud-based applications, there is no way to actually “SAVE” to the device. At roughly about 2.5 No more, “UGH!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 16, 2015

Welcome to a post and the summer of 2015… at least in the USA. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 1: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit. Sensitive to Copyright and Section 508 Accessibility. Mobile app for Apple and Android. VideoNote.es.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

will have access to their own personal computer in school by 2015-16. mobile devices 1to1 2in1 chromebook futuresourceconsulting ipad marketshare mobiledevices' Futuresource Consulting projects that half of students and teachers in the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Georgia’s Liberty County School System to outfit its school bus fleet with wi-fi in an effort to extend the school day — the first school district in Georgia to provide students free internet access through mobile wi-fi units. to 11:30 p.m.

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