Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

They also may find playing the game off-putting, she says, or havent had access to technology that can help them, like online tutoring sites, a good laptop or AI programs. All Radford students have the option to take University 101, a first-year seminar class that prepares them for the transition to college, both academically and socially.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

And second, schools are inherently open environments, so districts try to open up network access to as many people as possible. Guests should only have internet access and should not have a path to any of the school’s financial or personnel systems. To give you an example, at the district I worked at in New England as a CIO.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Deductive reasoning (process of elimination, for example) is less accessible to the responder. It’s not very scalable in a classroom with one teacher and 34 students, which is where the Socrative Seminar comes in–a ‘built-for-the-classroom structure to bring learning-through-questioning’ into traditional educational spaces.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. Open access definitions: SPARC and OSI. OpenStax, “Why we champion perpetual access, free of charge” [link] . ACRL Standards.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2010

In my experience I have identified 4 key principles that lay a foundation for communicating effectively with parents: Transparency, Honesty, Accessibility, and Flexibility. Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. Hold training workshops for parents. Call home on both positive and negative issues.

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Twitter Strategy Facebook Policies 308

edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2025

Create an AI ecosystem Teachers should have access to age-appropriate AI tools across districts. Its not only an issue of equitable access, but it also allows teachers of varying skills to access the same supports for their students. While workshops and seminars will help some, look for smaller teaching moments.

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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

Access to a good enough internet connection and a device should be a right and not a privilege. Looking into the future, we now have the opportunity to adopt a positive approach, in which learning becomes accessible for more people , is student-centered , and edtech evolves to extend to all kinds of learning situations.

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Education EdTech Digital Divide Online Learning 401

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A Socratic seminar? Rather than just giving educators access to information about teaching strategies, micro-credentials help us provide educators with a chance to demonstrate that they can implement those strategies in their classrooms. Sounds great! Maybe in October. A historical role-playing activity? Let’s aim for March.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s why I am now sharing my top tips for creating interactive learning spaces that any teacher can apply to their own classroom: Make learning content accessible from anywhere. For example, holding online Socratic seminars is a sure way of engaging students and getting them to work together.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 10, 2016

For example, it's nearly impossible for students working in shifts to be present in the classroom up to 80% of classes/lab seminars. If all learning materials can be accessed online, working students can study them at any time, while being anywhere.

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Learning LMS Course Groups 244

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It gives unlimited access to a great library of well-written, humorous, and engaging stories that will captivate young readers. It’s a little bit like an online literature seminar, in which students and teachers comment on paragraphs, share their ideas, and exchange notes. This is an app especially designed for kids of 12 and under.

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EdTech Gamification Libraries Study 261

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report Pelican Bay students are given laptops to help with their schoolwork, but they don’t have open access to the internet. says at times it feels more like a graduate-level seminar than an undergraduate class.

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Education Report Course Accessibility 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

It was supposed to widen access. Big first-year lecture classes subsidize small senior seminars. Even in the program Im in now, you dont get the same access to stuff as an in-person student, she said. Online was going to be disruptive. And it would reduce the price, said Garrett. But it hasnt played out that way.

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Survey Online Learning Course Laptops 113

Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2016

Besides making use of the apps, your students could use their phones to access your LiveBinders with podcasts, videos, and specific articles for their homework, or for extra credits. The first time I tried gamification with my students was during a seminar on green marketing and consumerism. And now, story time! It was really simple.

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Smartphone Classroom Mobility Gamification 150

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

Generative AI in the Classroom with Steve Dembo Donnie Piercey, AI and Math Donnia Piercey @ mrpiercEy is sharing how to integrate AI into Math instruction and is hosting an upcoming seminar with the National Council of Math Teachers on a deep dive on AI in math instruction for elementary grades. You can leave a comment on this blog.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. Participants gathered online each week for seminar-style conversations, case study discussions and peer critiques. The answer may be that we need to balance massiveness with miniaturization.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Case Study 156

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Association of American Colleges & Universities has identified a set of “ high-impact educational practices ” shown through research to improve student retention, including first-year seminars, learning communities, undergraduate research opportunities and service-learning programs.

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Policies Advocacy Course Accessibility 193

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There are also seminars, laboratories and other forms of classes that are designed for students to apply knowledge from lectures, but the professor is usually not involved in these. But many university classes still go with the traditional instructor-centered approach to education. Flipped learning — a different kind of standard. I doubt it.

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Flipped Classroom Education Learning Industry 316

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2018

What technology does, and does quite well, is make learning materials more accessible, more equitable, more up to date, and better suited to individuals. If you were in a seminar, it would include the people on both sides of you and in front and back. ” — RAND Education. You’re not alone. Those are big numbers.

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Technology Robotics Digital Citizenship Training 208

Neo LMS

JULY 22, 2021

Instead of attending face-to-face seminars, they can do this at their own pace and receive reminders to complete them on time. . For example, they’ll know how to access and share resources, organize important documents in a portfolio, how to connect with like-minded peers, and even give feedback online.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. 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.

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Laptops Mobility Learning Smartphone 139

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our goal is to build the systems of scale that allow for uncompromisingly good Montessori education that's accessible to the children of the world,” explains Girn. Girn: Our goal is to build the systems of scale that make uncompromisingly good Montessori education accessible to the world’s children.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Modern innovations make education accessible to all students and personalized to individual needs. Join a professional organization. Teachers should know about and become members of organizations dedicated to connecting like-minded individuals.

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Technology Education Laptops EdTech 230

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But I digress… technology, specifically in the form of micro-credentials (sometimes called digital badging) has emerged not only as a powerful, accessible and appropriate way to learn online, but is also allows teachers to manage their time and resources better (keep in mind many teachers pay for PD out their own pocket).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Those talks led to a partnership with ASU Prep that opened up access to the school’s Arizona charter. It’s not dirt cheap, but it’s accessible.” There are currently 50 students, all ninth graders.

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Khan Academy Learning Accessibility Assessment 176

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5. This made a great deal of sense.

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Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 123

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Not anymore.

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Assessment Chromebook Digital Badges Analysis 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Because students and families receive direct access to the full-range of academic and wraparound services that schools provide through in-person learning, the disparity offers a sobering reminder that family engagement is as much a matter of equity as access to education itself.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Considering sprawling campuses with their impressive but deserted buildings, I find myself reflecting on how the accessibility of blended learning has contested the authority of these spaces, which so often are homogenous places, gatekeepers of class and privilege. Remote learning also improved accessibility for some students.

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Education Learning Accessibility Libraries 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray.

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Learning Social Media Industry Outcomes 157

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Socratic Seminar. Depending on the age and content, allow for enough time and support for students to access and analyze the resources. . In a Socratic Seminar, a small group of 5-7 students will participate in the discussion while the rest of the class observes, each group taking a turn. Why do you think that _?

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 111

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Videoconferencing requires robust internet connection that not all students have access to, and even downloading video clips can be challenging on some connections. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Video Khan Academy Flipped Classroom Learning 166

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Regardless of the type of content you wish to display – dynamic visuals, informative content, or artistic installations onto walls, projectors can project your visuals with versatile applications such as edge blending, creating an immersive atmosphere.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. MOOCs have done an incredibly good job of scaling access to high-quality learning content around the world.

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