Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Not long ago, mobile devices were considered perfect for any past-time activity, and had no place in the classroom. There are plenty of concerns about implementing BYOD in the classroom, which makes many educators unwilling to plunge in this still new pool. Top 3 myths about BYOD in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2018

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Q: My internet stopped working on my laptop.

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Laptops Digital Citizenship Strategy Resources 169

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In my summer digital citizenship classes, the biggest question I get is how to control student cell phone usage. Luckily, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Andrew Carroll, former High School teacher, has a great analysis of the problem and discussion of solutions below: How to control smartphone usage in classroom?

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Smartphone Classroom Digital Citizenship Laptops 268

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2024

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods whether they’re in a classroom, the library, one of the tech labs.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Chromebook Laptops 397

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 16, 2021

Is it safe to enter the classroom? Most online teaching centers require their tutors to have some kind of professional backdrop behind them – this can be a blank wall that you’ve decorated with relevant classroom posters. Setting up your virtual classroom can also be a great way to unleash your creativity! A Laptop Stand.

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Laptops Digital Citizenship Exercises Resources 397

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APRIL 30, 2021

Whiteboards have long been a de rigeur staple in classrooms, occupying pride-of-place at the front of the room. I selected these three because they are intuitive, multi-functional, and work as a classroom tool rather than just another new widget teachers must learn. Free to try. Free to try.

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Hapara

MARCH 18, 2025

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Classrooms have come a long way since chalkboards, overhead projectors and film strips (remember those?). Today, technology is transforming the way students learn and teachers approach instruction, making the K-12 classroom more engaging and personalized than ever.

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Technology Classroom Digital Citizenship Assessment 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2023

Feel free to grab the image and use it in your classroom: Tech Tip #170: Cover your webcam when you aren’t using it! Another tip: Close your laptop when not in use. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Digital Citizenship eBook Social Media Laptops 392

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

The 8th grade just received their own profiled laptop since the school was deploying a blended learning/personalized learning initiative and the 1:1 student laptop was a key project. I was perplexed since I thought to myself, the district has been deploying laptops to schools for 10 years! It’s roller coaster time!

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Digital Citizenship Laptops Blended Learning Groups 159

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2022

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Chromebook Laptops 396

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

Submit homework digitally. Next year, incorporate it into your classroom management by asking students to submit their work electronically (if you don’t already). This could be by sharing it with you, posting it to a class blog, embedding it into a Discussion Forum, or uploading it to their digital portfolio.

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Digital Citizenship Learning Edmodo eBook 418

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It can be plugged into a heavy base for free-standing use or directly into a laptop for greater mobility. It will quickly become an essential device for your classroom inquiry. Applications for the Classroom. You’ll be thrilled with its portability, maneuverability, flexibility, and adaptability to your classroom inquiry.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2018

As a classroom teacher and an instructional technologist, I struggled with how to find time in students’ already-busy schedules to incorporate digital citizenship, even though I knew it was important to teach. Each classroom presented the newly coined, “digital weeks,” in a format that best represented their class.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Social Media Laptops 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2020

extend a classroom discussion so all students can offer their ideas, even the shy members. IFTTT is intuitive, friendly, and will quickly become one of your favorite time-saving, life-organizing, classroom management apps. IF my iPad (laptop, phone) battery is low THEN remind me to recharge it. then that happens.

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Learning Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom iPad 368

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2021

It is a good start to give them a suitably modern laptop that can cope with the rigor of running Zoom meetings, wrangling Teams catch-ups and interfacing with the cloud-powered educational resources that are vital to remote learning at the moment. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Laptops Digital Citizenship Resources Strategy 450

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2012

Not only do many have access, but also older children possess their own devices (cell phones, smart phones, laptops, tablets, e-readers, etc.). When using these devices in the classroom, the teacher must ensure that there is a specific learning outcome connected to the device.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Here are some examples of how teachers are using this intelligent, nimble PDF: paper-free classroom –eliminate the need to print PDFs before filling them out. Unlike a school’s standard equipment, home-based students work from a diverse variety of digital devices (i.e., PCs, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, and desktops).

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Digital Citizenship Data Comparison Mobility 397

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

How does game based learning and programs like SplashLearn address the unique needs of the remote classroom? Online Reading –when the classroom library isn’t available, use one of the many online libraries or story collections to inspire reading. GBL and Remote Teaching. I teach online education grad school classes.

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Game-Based Learning Learning Common Core Digital Citizenship 454

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MAY 3, 2021

When my fellow teachers did seek me out — always to ask for help and rarely to request training — they’d come to my room, laptop in hand, and follow the noise of my fingers flying across the keyboard. Technology in the classroom changed from “nice to have” to “must have” 1:1 became a reality.

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Digital Citizenship Chromebook Laptops Training 418

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

For a safe digital experience, adopting adequate security practices is critical both in and outside the classroom. Controlling who gets access to Zoom classrooms with the help of passcodes. Internet Safety Tips for Teachers Today’s educators can no longer do without technological resources.

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Internet Safety Social Media Data Software 417

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MAY 10, 2023

When my fellow teachers did seek me out — always to ask for help and rarely to request training — they’d come to my room, laptop in hand, and follow the noise of my fingers flying across the keyboard. Technology in the classroom changed from “nice to have” to “must have”. It always amazed them I could make eye contact and say “Hi!”

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Digital Citizenship Chromebook Laptops Training 378

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

That means students can use any stylus without ‘activation’ steps and a teacher can use her stylus on multiple Chromebooks in her classroom without changing it out for every student. For example, right now, I own four styluses–one for my Surface Pro, my Mac, my Chromebook, and my PC laptop.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

When my fellow teachers did seek me out — always to ask for help and rarely to request training — they’d come to my room, laptop in hand, and follow the noise of my fingers flying across the keyboard. Technology in the classroom changed from “nice to have” to “must have” 1:1 became a reality.

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Digital Citizenship Chromebook Laptops Training 393

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

No matter the technology mix in the classroom, everyone shares the same user experience, with learning focused on the subject matter not the hardware, thus simplifying classroom management for the teacher. While you’re waiting, download the free software to your phone or laptop (or iPad). Plug it in to charge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

School digital devices used to be primarily PCs, but now there are Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Surface Pros, laptops, and more. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Devices you can use.

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Robotics Social Media Chromebook Common Core 459

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Here are eight sites that offer free books for kids to adults: Bookopolis.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

As a society, it is our responsibility to ensure youth are fully aware as well as educated about digital citizenship. Education institutions, parents, community programs and youth organizations must make digital citizenship a priority to ensure our young leaders are on solid ground for a positive future.

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Digital Citizenship STEM Mobility Smartphone 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2018

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Hardware.

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Digital Citizenship Laptops Strategy Resources 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

The classroom teacher can’t be replaced by an electronic device.”. The teacher is as critical or more in an online classroom as they are in the physical class. Repurpose cart devices or class laptops to go home. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. Online or via Google Voice.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 2, 2022

You’ve known analog whiteboards for years and already used interactive whiteboards, but chances are you still wonder: what is a digital whiteboard? Think of it as a solution that offers a fantastic opportunity to modernize classrooms and workplaces. Not to mention great flexibility thanks to its digital format.

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Software Libraries Blackboard Meeting 370

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

Submit homework digitally. Next year, incorporate it into your classroom management by asking students to submit their work electronically. This could be by sharing it with you, posting it to a class blog, embedding it into a Discussion Forum, or uploading it to their digital portfolio. Model good digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Classroom Learning Edmodo 186

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2019

When students feel an emotional connection to the subject being taught in the classroom, retaining and recalling information becomes easier. To enliven lesson plans and engage students further, technology can be used to unlock emotions in the classroom. However, it is still important to be discerning about how it is used.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 4, 2015

Do you have Laptops or iPads. Even without internet access, if you had Laptops, they could create Documents using Microsoft Word. I do not have any access to laptops. Our school moved and our laptops were reformatted and our servers were taken apart. The only computer I have access to is my own personal laptop.

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Laptops Digital Citizenship iPad Microsoft 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s intuitive, easily learned by doing for students who hate reading directions, and is compatible with desktops, laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and Android tablets. 14 ways to use them in the classroom. for digital storytelling, use the placemark dialogue box to tell a story through the settings. More on maps.

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Digital Citizenship Android Chromebook Tablets 247

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

It works equally well on your desktop, laptop, Chromebook, Mac, iOS device, and mobile device and syncs between all with ease. This is an authentic application of digital citizenship rights and responsibilities and reminds students that these legalities are an integrated part of their education workflow.

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Adobe Tools Classroom Digital Citizenship 186

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One (or more) of these will be perfect for your classroom: Canva. Canva not only works on iPads, but desktops and laptops. Using the frame layout option, students can create a collage of photos for sequencing activities or digital portfolios. The only downside with this app is it’s not available on desktops and laptops.

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