Neo LMS

JANUARY 16, 2018

You get a lot more participation from your students with online learning. Easy learning occurs, which is missing in theoretical lectures. All tech tools are available online or at most, are just a download away. Technology allows global learning. Podcasts and classroom gaming are all part of the learning process.

Student Engagement 210

Student Engagement Technology Tools Classroom 210

Doug Levin

AUGUST 17, 2017

They also are more likely to support school-provided laptops for high school student use in the classroom for educational purposes (83 percent strongly or somewhat support) than parents (77 percent) or the general population (68 percent). One can only hope that research on online learning quality is attended to in those debates.

Digital Learning 186

Digital Learning Learning Outcomes Equity of Access 186

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

Learning 131

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. Department of Education, students took 317,000 online courses.

Online Learning 85

Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 85

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

Early stage edtechs are also participating in the AWS EdStart program, the AWS edtech virtual startup accelerator, designed to help entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud.

EdTech 218

EdTech Trends Data Outcomes 218

TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Perhaps I’m a little jaded, but when I read about Mark Zuckerberg’s and Priscilla Chan’s letter to their daughter which stated that technology would create a world where personalized learning was available to everyone, I thought: “No it won’t.”. We now have higher education that is entirely online. I was in one of less than 500.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Adaptive Learning Learning Laptops 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

Digital Divide 145

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Poor internet, a lack of laptops and hotspots, and instability at home are the factors most commonly cited for making participation in online learning difficult for kids. For them, there’s no substitute for in-person learning, “So, they’re not going to respond to anything or even log in,” Choudhury said.

Elementary 145

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 145

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.”

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Instead of huddling with my students, smiling and giving fist bumps, I sat in my corner of the room, providing feedback on their Google Docs from behind my laptop. As difficult as in-person learning was, remote days were worse. Online learning platforms varied by teacher and class. Emojis weren’t cutting it.

Classroom 141

Classroom Laptops Google iPad 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There was a person behind the scenes basically typing on a laptop and a teacher kind of controlling it. Perhaps the most obvious are the personalized learning systems, the kind of learning-recommender systems that have come out over the past five years. Summit Learning was a kind of popular one in K-12 in the U.S.

Robotics 181

Robotics Software Google Examples 181

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Pop-up social media spaces and hashtags, such as #remoteteaching , #CovidCampus , and the Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning Facebook group, feature numerous posts and discussions about digital tools, resources, and apps for remote teaching. Some schools rushed to get laptops and tablets to students in need.

Digital Divide 218

Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 218

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook iPad Laptops 170

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools. Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere. ClassVR / Avanti’s World ensured that educators know that everyone can come to Eduverse.com.

EdTech 138

EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 138

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. The post Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Laptops 40

Laptops iPad Elementary Report 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

Personalized Learning 106

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. New Rochelle teacher Rose has no idea if lack of internet or laptops are the reasons some of her students haven’t gotten in touch, although she suspects that’s sometimes the case. They have art, they have gym, they have lunch and they have teachers they know.

Broadband 143

Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

Digital Divide 121

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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Smartphone Laptops Social Media Facebook 178

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Steve Kossakoski, CEO, Virtual Learning Academy in New Hampshire. Coronavirus gave many just days.

Learning 87

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 87

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Personalized Learning 45

Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While students ultimately may go back to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a possibility for suspended students “whenever feasible,” he says. Robinson says. Until that is completely addressed, the impact of the disproportionality can be significantly minimized or mitigated.”. Everybody needs a check-in.

Learning 145

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

It’s the same Monday to Friday routine: Get up, change clothes, have breakfast, and turn on the laptops. Did you turn on your laptops? He turns on his laptop and waits anxiously for his classmates to say, “Good morning.” Each boy likes to eat something different for breakfast. De La Torre shouts from the kitchen.

Laptops 130

Laptops Blackboard Study Report 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Students must be proficient in navigating digital tools, critically evaluating online information, and using technology responsibly. Trends in K-12 education in 2023 will continue into 2024, most notably immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and online and hybrid learning.

Trends 114

Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 114

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment. That could make catching up a lot more cost effective.

Khan Academy 139

Khan Academy Study Report Software 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

And here’s why it’s a problem: When Providence’s teachers meet in teams to discuss student progress, they sit around tables with their laptops, logging into various systems, looking at PDF reports that show student performance data. Right now, in most schools, that’s just a dream.

Data 102

Data Report System Laptops 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When the boys’ no-fee private school reopened to in-person learning more quickly than Gaddie thought was safe, she enrolled them in the tribally controlled public school she’d gone to as a child. It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” They’re average.”.

Facebook 142

Facebook Groups Data Survey 142

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 22, 2019

Whether you choose to project a slide onto the screen for all to see or have each student access the activator in Google Classroom or another online learning space, this is a routine you’ll want to solidify in the first weeks of school. What will activate your students’ days? Set the Students Free.

Classroom 83

Classroom Chromebook Tablets Laptops 83

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On laptops and Chromebooks, though, the labs still work. While the labs are designed for virtual reality headsets, most of the approximately 250 schools using the platform access the labs with Chromebooks, Steven said. High-quality virtual reality headsets, it seems, are still out of reach for schools.

Robotics 109

Robotics Chromebook Education Company 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. Prepackaged lessons from an online curriculum provider comprised about 80 percent of students’ work in the first year.

Report 111

Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

Khan Academy 140

Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 140

Shake Up Learning

JULY 7, 2020

You’ll learn how to: Amplify student voice in the classroom. Use technology to assess understanding and craft personalized learning experiences. This book is great for any kind of devices–tablets, laptops, Chromebooks, anything! How will this book help with remote learning? Click To Tweet. .

Chromebook 97

Chromebook Classroom Blended Learning Google 97

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. Department of Education, students took 317,000 online courses.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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Social Media Learning Tablets Wiki 47