EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

Despite its name, the Learning Management System (LMS) is not about learning. The LMS was originally the CMS—Course Management System. While it’s great for instructor workflows, it has always been a course management tool, not a learning tool. We wanted to learn in the same ways that we lived.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Adoption of digital learning resources is taking hold in schools and districts across the United States. Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week. Next, evaluate curriculum as it relates to content.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Institutions should grant authority and responsibility for coordinating technology accessibility efforts among communications and IT staff to an executive-level leader, says Jay Cooper, content strategist for Campus Suite, a CMS provider for schools and colleges that has created an online website accessibility center. “At

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is equipping each of its 30,000 middle school students with a laptop this year in the district’s latest move to make its classrooms more tech-savvy. The world that they live in is technology based,” said Cindy Pusanik, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Robinson Middle. “We

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