Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2021

He has some interesting reflections on technology’s place in education: Remember the days of Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe’s or students drawing pictures with Kid Pix. Much has changed since technology has made inroads into education, and much has not. So how do we know if the technology used in the classroom works? .

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I’ve been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little funding. Often, we are not fortunate to work in schools that provide us with the budget to get the technology we want. Ways to Get Technology for Your Classes from Shelly Terrell.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

That preparation starts early in their 21st-century classrooms, where students and teachers get access to standardized technologies. The district recently modernized its ed tech with updated Chromebooks, teacher laptops and Promethean ActivPanel displays.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Sphero, LittleBits and Other Robots Bring Technology to Life. Now the school has about 20 models, along with apps students can use on their tablets or Chromebooks to learn the basics of programming. Literally, all you need is a tablet or Chromebook, then just plug it in and charge it,” he says. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

How Technology Can Improve Digital Citizenship in K–12. As technology is further integrated into the classroom, digital citizenship is an essential skill all students need to possess. . MORE FROM EDTECH: See how digital literacy programs prepare students for a tech-enabled future. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 09/13/2019 - 12:12.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Q&A: Adam Welcome on How K–12 Educators Can Integrate Technology for Engagement. In order to use technology properly in the classroom, teachers need to take a back seat and allow students to spend more time as the drivers of their own education, says educational consultant and public speaker Adam Welcome. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 27, 2020

Bruce Reicher – Bio as Submitted Bruce Reicher has been a technology teacher for over 25 years. ” The post Wakelet and WeVideo: Powerful Distance Learning Edtech appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 18, 2019

EdTech helps make a massive difference in their success. EdTech and the Challenges of Special Needs Learning. Referred to as assistive technology (AT), these devices are often decidedly low tech. The term “edtech” encompasses a narrower scope of assistive technology tools. Separating from family.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Technology Underscores the Promise of a New School Year. Many will also have new laptops or tablets through one-to-one computing programs , upgraded classroom technology for blended learning , and teachers trained to more effectively use technology to personalize instruction. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 09/10/2019 - 12:44.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When Erin Ford joined Virginia’s Chesterfield County Public Schools as director of technology services, she became concerned about the way the district monitored its technology assets. “We We were tracking Chromebooks in a vendor-supported asset management system,” she says. “We

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

New Global Survey Offers Snapshot of Technology in the Classroom in 2019. The survey found that use of technology in schools worldwide continues to grow, with 48 percent of students reporting they use a desktop computer in the classroom. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how educators are using mobile devices to make a positive impact.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 4, 2019

New Chromebook App Hub Speeds the Search for K–12 Classroom Apps. The Chromebook App Hub — a new resource to help teachers find and integrate Google educational apps in the classroom — will launch later this year, Google announced today at SXSW EDU 2019 in Austin, Texas. Sam Houston Independent School District , told EdTech.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 17, 2017

Today John Sowash @rsowash talks formative assessment, multimedia, and the must-have apps for Chromebooks. Today he gives us five ideas to amp up our Chromebook classroom. We’re giving away two copies of John’s book The Chromebook Classroom. 10-Minute Teacher Giveaway: The Chromebook Classroom Book by John Sowash.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With quarantines, staffing shortages and virtual learning days, a technology problem is the last interruption educators need when they have students’ attention. To prevent these potential holdups, K–12 IT departments are turning to Chromebooks for educators, which deliver a high-…

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Social-Emotional Learning Competencies Get a Boost from Classroom Technology. MORE FROM EDTECH: How K–12 schools can make modern learning environments a reality. Classroom Technology Creates Opportunity for SEL. A recent study by Microsoft found that three pieces of technology tend to be especially helpful for SEL: .

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

But what impact do these devices have on us, and are we using technology to its fullest potential? In my public high school, we rarely interact with technology, at least not productively. Barriers to providing all students with access to technology. Barriers to using technology powerfully in the classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technology Helps Teachers Prevent and Mitigate Bad Behavior in the Classroom. But innovations in education technology can equip teachers with the tools to help students stay on a good path and get the most out of their academics. . SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Research supports the positive impact of a PBL approach on student learning and retention , but the time required to develop new teaching frameworks and a lack of technological resources necessary to underpin PBL success at scale hamper widespread adoption. Still, the use of instructional technology continues to increase in K–12 classrooms.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 7, 2023

In a Quest Academy class, sixth to ninth grade students might choose between watching a video on a school-provided Chromebook, listening to a podcast or reading an article to learn about a new concept. For group project work, they can access a teacher-provided playlist that integrates viewing selections.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 31, 2022

Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. Today’s guest, Al Kingsley, has worked with edtech for over thirty years. He shares observations on where education technology is and where it is going in the future.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2018

3 Keys to Transform Instruction with Chromebooks. While education technology is key to introducing new learning strategies, the technology itself will only be as good as the implementation plan around it. Chromebooks are tools. Chromebooks are tools. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

School principals value using technology for learning because of its ability to help empower learning and address the educational inequities inherent in today’s education system . Programs that provide students with an assigned laptop, tablet or Chromebook level the playing field for students’ technology access at school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2017

Today Kasey Bell @shakeuplearning sits down to talk about the hot trends at ISTE 2017 including lots of Google stuff, new AR news, Google Keep, touch Screen Chromebooks, and more news. In today’s show, Kasey Bell discusses the hot trends at ISTE 2017: Touch screen ChromeBooks. 3 EdTech Blog. #3 Must Read EdTech Blog.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I’ve been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little funding. Often, we are not fortunate to work in schools that provide us with the budget to get the technology we want. Ways to Get Technology for Your Classes from Shelly Terrell.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A growing number of school districts have begun investing in school bus technology to improve education or to enhance school safety and operate more efficiently, which can result in cost savings. Today’s school buses are doing much more than just taking students to and from school.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2017

By Wylie Wong When devices go off school grounds, administrators need to make sure they stay secure.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers. To assist the professional development process for both teachers and IT professionals, Digital Promise, in conjunction with Google , has established a new program called the Dynamic Learning Project to help introduce new education technology into the classroom. .

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

The market for educational technology solutions is massive, with numerous gadgets and programs to choose from. . A pervasive issue among K–12 districts is administrators going for the newest products without much knowledge of what problems those technologies address and whether they actually work. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

How to Roll Out Chromebooks for Your District in a Jiffy. In August 2016, the tech team at the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana was loading up new Acer Chromebooks to be delivered to the district’s 87 schools when the area was hit with a catastrophic storm. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 07/02/2018 - 11:51.

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Ditch That Textbook

MAY 22, 2017

I have worked with all sorts of digital devices in my own classroom — desktop computers, laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, student cell phones and a variety of others. Hands down, the best experience for me has been Chromebooks. I’ve outlined why I choose Chromebooks for a 1:1 initiative or, as I had, for carts that stay [.].

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Last school year, our school started a one-to-one Chromebook initiative for sixth-grade students. That meant our incoming seventh-grade students would not only have Chromebooks, but they would know how to use them. Students would be adept with the technology because they used it the year before.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

With this kind of technology students can explain their own thinking when solving word problems, create a video tutorial demonstrating how to use an app or web tool, label and explain a diagram, or create instructional videos. Screencast-o-matic is a web tool to screencast your computer or Chromebook screen and add narration.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

“[It’s] imperative that schools lead the way, not just in offering stronger STEM programming, but in advocating for it with the community and championing it with students — especially at the K–12 level, where they are first exposed to it,” Ryan Petersen writes for EdTech. Tech Tools Help Teach K–12 Students STEM. by Dan Tynan.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

The rapid deployment of educational technology, paired with an increase in the number of states passing data privacy laws , leaves many district administrators and technology leaders with a daunting question about protecting student and staff information: Where do we start? Technology Planning Starts with an Assessment.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how libraries can use makerspaces to teach STEM! It’s a coffeehouse feel, warm and inviting,” Superintendent Shawn Bishop told EdTech for a previous story. Makerspaces encourage students to explore and create using science, technology, engineering and math concepts. by David Andrade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers has several online professional development options to check out: GSuite for Teachers , Teaching History with Technology , and Practical Edtech Coaching. Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Vicki: Yeah.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes. EDTECH: What is Vision One91and how was it developed? Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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