eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2023

Digital learning has not always been as ubiquitous as it is today–in fact, a decade ago, the concept made many educators uncomfortable. But today, digital learning resources are embraced as tools that highly-skilled educators can use to boost student engagement and connect classroom lessons to the real world.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Active Textbook is a free iOS, Google Play, and Microsoft app with a variety of features teachers can use to create an engaging reading experience. Hypothes.is is a tool that requires a free registration. Students highlight and discuss parts of a website, respond to peers, and vote up peer responses they like.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 23, 2020

Check out the following forms: Google Forms check-in Distance Learning Check-In Make a Copy Microsoft Forms check-in. Additionally, participants will create distance learning products and receive feedback from their peers and the instructor, a global leader in online learning, Shelly Sanchez Terrell ( @ShellTerrell ).

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The beauty of immersive technology is that it enables teachers and students to collaboratively create their own digital learning scenarios. With existing technology, this teacher can scan each of those pieces into a computer and share the digital objects with students who can then handle and even 3D-print them.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Pic-Collage (iOS/Android/Microsoft)- Students can choose from festive backgrounds and add photos, text, and stickers. If you enjoy these resources, then take one of my fully accredited continuing education and graduate online courses or check out my latest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions !

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Those were a couple of the questions debated at #DLNchat on Tuesday, October 9, when we discussed how nontraditional education providers could influence the future of digital learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 21, 2021

There are more options for digital learning than Zoom. Microsoft Teams. 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. Canvas –with their Conference option (Big Blue Button). FaceTime –from Apple.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning. Learn more at www.futureof.school. About Microsoft.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Some digitally enabled K–12 schools find it difficult to provide appropriate lesson plans that can be accessed by all students, said Tim Clark, director of curriculum, instruction and digital learning at Chicago Public Schools. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2021

Dynamic Approaches to Learning in the History/Social Studies Classroom – Nate Gildart. Using Feedback to drive teaching and learning in the IB – Jen Olmsted. Integrating Digital Learning Tools in Classrooms – Andy Rhodes. Tool Sessions on: Padlet, Microsoft Teams, Kognity, and more.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 25, 2020

These are some additional free remote learning resources: A remote learning guide for new or existing Buncee users that are looking to learn how to use Buncee for remote learning or in combination with tools such as Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Wakelet, and Flipgrid.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 14, 2018

He received a free copy of my book, Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones and BYOT. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Congratulations to Jared Wall ( @jwalledtech ) who shared the idea to make read alouds more engaging.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There are a growing number of ways to help students push their technology interests further by earning industry-recognized certifications or using their digital schools for community service projects. Administrators should learn more about original equipment manufacturers’ certifications and self-maintainer policies.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Final assessment and feedback using AI tools Certain AI tools, such as Microsoft Editor , can assess clarity, coherence, and grammar. I had students who were bright, enthusiastic, and full of ideas, yet they faced real challenges in turning those thoughts into coherent arguments on paper. This makes Ammars point sound polished and impactful.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2017

Come by PowerSchool’s Classroom of the Future in 207A where they will be giving away Apple Watches, Microsoft Surfaces and Amazon Echos. I will be leading a panel discussion on 5 Key Trends Transforming Teaching Today at ISTE 2017 on Monday June 26, 2017 at 4pm in room 225 A and B. and podcasts.

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. . Want to learn more?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Pic-Collage (iOS/Android/Microsoft)- Students can choose from festive backgrounds and add photos, text, and stickers. Design Wizard -a simple online graphic design tool for creating digital greetings with templates. Several of the images, stickers and frames need to be purchased, but students can upload images for free.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Microsoft Outlook Email Distribution List so that you and your organization can successfully transition to a Microsoft Teams environment for communication and file sharing. Is your district thinking about making the transition this year to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams ?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 18, 2019

Inclusive learning and providing for students and families from different backgrounds is something that the Buncee and the Microsoft team are definitely passionate about, making this integration a natural fit. Educators can use this integration to create lessons, make interactive flashcards for students, and communicate with families.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

No longer are the best learning opportunities exclusive to certain people -- technology makes these opportunities more widely accessible. If we can close the digital learning gap , we can empower everyone to be a lifelong learner. Let’s add one more item to the above list: international education is for everyone.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Powerful use of technology contributes to closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Marrs Magnet Center is one of 100 Verizon Innovative Learning schools (VILs) around the country. This technology is transforming learning for our students. Jenni Sherrill Digital Learning Coach, Marrs Magnet Center. Breaking Language Barriers is Easier with Technology.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Check out the following forms: Google Forms check-in Distance Learning Check-In Make a Copy Microsoft Forms check-in. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Immersive Reader from Microsoft Education helps English Learners and struggling readers and writers. If you enjoy these resources, then take one of my fully accredited continuing education and graduate online courses or check out my latest book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions !

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Pic-Collage (iOS/Android/Microsoft)- Students can choose from festive backgrounds and add photos, text, and stickers. Design Wizard -a simple online graphic design tool for creating digital greetings with templates. Several of the images, stickers and frames need to be purchased, but students can upload images for free.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is an important aspect of digital education solutions as some are more flexible with compatible file formats than others. Digital whiteboards like ViewBoard check this box while also supporting the most prolific platforms in education including Microsoft, Google, and Apple operating systems and education services.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Active Textbook is a free iOS, Google Play, and Microsoft app with a variety of features teachers can use to create an engaging reading experience. Hypothes.is is a tool that requires a free registration. Students highlight and discuss parts of a website, respond to peers, and vote up peer responses they like. Students join with a code.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Different Flavors of Digital Inclusion Programming. From classes on Microsoft Office basics to services on civic engagement and employment, libraries and other social service programs play a pivotal role in reducing the Digital Learning Gap.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

But hints of the future were present, even back then, since there was a way to earn college credit from the course I didn’t finish, supplemental education CD-ROMs were making their way into K12 schools, and Microsoft and Intel were offering certifications that could be earned entirely online. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Kim Lewis, a middle and high school Spanish teacher in a rural district in upstate New York, explained how she uses Microsoft Teams to facilitate student collaboration and offer opportunities to practice problem-solving skills in groups.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2017

Despite Chromebook growth, Apple and Microsoft have made product and tool announcements that are more in line with Chromebook offerings. Next page: How Apple, Microsoft are vying for education space.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

In case you missed it, according to Microsoft , augmented reality (AR) adds digital elements on top of the real world and oftentimes has limited ability to interact. Many resources out there are free– like the content from Discovery Education, Google, Verizon, Microsoft, and more–while others have free aspects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Accessibility The fast move from print-based to digital materials and from in person learning events to digital learning events can create additional barriers for disabled students. Microsoft has developed new tools for accessibility, such as Immersive Reader which allows users to adjust how text is presented (e.g.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And that is one of my highest priorities as an educator, but also as a digital learning specialist. Teachers can import those from their Google classroom, from Clever, from Microsoft. 00;03;40;26 – 00;03;50;07. So you give them a choice about what to use for their portfolio. It can be with these wakili's student accounts.

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