Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2025

Instead of ignoring the technology, schools owe it to the students to understand how it works and how it can enhance learning. Tell them to play around with the technology in a low-stakes environment, and then ask them what they did, what they learned, and what they would like to do next. Overall, the watchword is nimble.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning.

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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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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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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

Access to a good enough internet connection and a device should be a right and not a privilege. That’s why it’s important to start early and integrate technology into teacher training. Now is the time to adopt a bottom-up approach, in which teachers drive technology adoption by making suggestions and asking for what they need.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Though tools to do that are getting more accessible than ever. (I Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. This is part 2.

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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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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. It’s a master’s degree course for Georgetown University’s excellent Learning, Design, and Technology program. The topic is education and technology. These seminars are mostly discussion based. Additionally, each student will teach the rest of us one tech.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Deductive reasoning (process of elimination, for example) is less accessible to the responder. An example of an Analytical Question might be to ask a student about character motivation in a novel or how science drives technology–“What is the protagonist’s motivation in the story and how do we know?” What is a ‘good question’?

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Examples Assessment Blended Learning Exercises 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

After all, technology has reduced prices in many other industries. It was supposed to widen access. Online education officers respond that online programs face steep startup costs and need expensive technology specialists and infrastructure. Big first-year lecture classes subsidize small senior seminars.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

Technology certainly does not always make painful events from the past easier or more comfortable to discuss. Candra Flanagan Yet there are other ways to support constructive conversations about race, culture and history—and apply technologies that enhance physical spaces to help learners immerse themselves in past lived experiences.

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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

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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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. Technology saves the day! Technology and e-learning are life saviours for all students who have to share their time and energy between the classroom and the workplace. Oh wait, they can!

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Technology might come in handy in this case. Contrary to conventional wisdom, technology is a friend, not a foe of books and reading. It gives unlimited access to a great library of well-written, humorous, and engaging stories that will captivate young readers. This is an app especially designed for kids of 12 and under.

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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. EdSurge: What’s your vision for Higher Ground, and how is technology helping you get there? Our whole approach from infancy through high school is deeply technology-enabled.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. How does higher education use mobile technology to teach? After that shock, discussion began by exploring the full range of mobile technology available in 2019. This is part 4.

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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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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

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. Engaging online tutorials.

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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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2024

By prioritizing critical components like best-of-breed communication technology, school leaders can ensure their integrated safety plan will help minimize emergencies and significantly contribute to the academic growth and wellbeing of students and staff. Introducing a routine maintenance schedule is one of the simplest ways to get this done.

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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

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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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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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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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Video can interact with other technologies, too. Videoconferencing requires robust internet connection that not all students have access to, and even downloading video clips can be challenging on some connections.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But they are also–subtly, and critically–the result of technological change. But the pandemic has now forced this change; forced the entire landscape of higher education to embrace the technologies of online learning. And as these technologies ripple through the system, they will change it—and us—in fundamental ways.

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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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 20 years. Not anymore. Transforming the Classroom with Micro-credentials.

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Assessment Chromebook Digital Badges Analysis 195

Educate AI Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We will move beyond the hype and the headlines to address the concrete challenges and opportunities that AI presents, focusing on the crucial questions of equity, safety, and access. The future of education is being shaped now , by the decisions we make about technology. Let’s make those decisions wisely.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 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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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, has partnered with the Virginia Technology Student Association (Virginia TSA) to support and expand participation in virtual, intra-curricular student STEM competitions. About Flinn Scientific.

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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 159

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. More online access to class materials. Dedicated teacher training.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As part of their strategy, MPUSD launched a live Q&A on Zoom for families with multiple time options as well as meetings in Spanish and English to make them more accessible. Technology training for parents and caregivers can help those at home gain the knowledge they need to support learning at home. Multi-channel communication.

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