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3 Reasons Why You Should Use A School LMS To Deliver PD For Teachers

By Matthew Lynch
September 28, 2020

There is always new technology coming out that educators can use to make their students’ lives easier. An important and useful technology is a ...

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How to Avoid Poor Tech Training Practices

By Matthew Lynch
May 19, 2020

Technology training for teachers usually fits into one of two categories. Either it’s well-planned and effective because teachers received thorough training before using a ...

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The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones Of 2021: All The Best Options For Silencing The Noise

Whether you’re a student trying to drown out distractions while studying for a big exam or you’re just someone who really loves immersing themselves in a good song, noise-canceling headphones ...
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The Best YouTube Downloaders For 2021: All The Best Options For Downloading Videos

While YouTube is a true treasure trove of informative and entertaining content for students and educators alike, it can be troublesome trying to access YouTube when WiFi is sketchy or ...
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The Best Screen Recorders Of 2021: All The Best Options For Creating Tutorials, Recording Webinars, ...

Screen recorders are the way of the future for educators and students when it comes to everything from putting together PowerPoint presentations to recording tutorials and conducting webinars. Rather than ...
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The Best Tablets For K-12 and College Educators 2021: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

While a quality laptop is an essential tool in any K-12 or college educators’ teaching toolkit, a great tablet can do a lot of what a laptop can do while ...
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The Best Laptops For K-12 And College Educators 2021: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

A good laptop will do wonders for K-12 and college educators alike, but it’s a great laptop that will separate an educator from their peers when it comes to organization ...

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What Can Amazon Alexa Do for You?

Having a personal assistant is a luxury many people can only dream about. Who wouldn’t want someone to screen calls, schedule appointments, and send reminders. Personal assistants take on many ...
Child Development Tech Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Higher Education EdTech

5 Ways Technology Is Making Students Anxious

Psychological well-being as measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness suddenly decreased amongst students after 2012. This decrease in psychological well-being and increase in anxiety levels are linked to the ...
Child Development Tech Early Childhood

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea It used to be that parents sent their young children to kindergarten to prepare them for elementary school. Now things have developed to ...
Child Development Tech

Less Screen Time and More Socialization

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that we spend too much time in front of a computer screen. We work in front of a computer, check our ...
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How to Talk to Parents About Safety on School-Provided Technology

With the advent of digital learning, learners have been exposed to several technologies and devices such as Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops at school and home. However, these devices have more ...

Teachers

Building a Foundation for a Successful School Year

If you aren’t sure what to expect in this coming school year or are unsure whether your school district will begin the year with face-to-face classroom instruction, then you are ...
Assistive Technology Teachers

Is a Learning Portal Different from an LMS?

These days, we hear a lot about learning portals and learning management systems (LMS). They are great tools, offering the benefits of more efficiency and organization in a world where ...
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Proving LMS ROI: Is an LMS a Worthy Investment?

In these days of online learning, many people will tell you that an LMS is vital. Some will tell you that updating the one you have is a necessity. But ...
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Will AI Replace Teachers?

Through the years, robots have taken over many jobs. First, they replaced horses and wagons and horses and plows, then they started to replace people. A few examples of artificial ...
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Technology and Science Topics to Debate

Are you a teacher who is looking for technology and science debate topics to use with your students? Well, look no further because we have a list of topics that ...

Education Leadership

5 Ideas For Open Education

As something that has been present since the 1970s, open educational resources have been the primary motive for students to engage in the open education learning process. Students can do ...
Education Leadership

How the Cloud Enhances Workflow for K–12 Administrators

CoSN conducted an Infrastructure Survey in 2018. This survey concluded that 90% of the K—12 school districts who participated in the survey said they used the cloud for storage. Additionally, 80% ...
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Education Technology and the Future of Higher Ed Leadership

Education Technology (EdTech) has had a more significant impact on education than anyone expected. Now its effects are reaching into the field of higher education. In this article, we will ...
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Explore the Future of EDU at NVIDIA GTC – Students and Educators Attend Free!

Learn how to incorporate STEM AI projects into the classroom at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, running Oct. 5-9, and featuring a recorded keynote address by CEO and founder Jensen Huang.
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Teaching K-12 in the Age of Coronavirus

When the world began to close due to Coronavirus, schools were the first to shut their doors. According to UNESCO, by the middle of April 2020, the learning of almost ...

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3 Reasons Why You Should Use A School LMS To Deliver PD For Teachers

How to Avoid Poor Tech Training Practices

Reasons e-learning is Perfect for Introverted Students

Teaching Teachers to Put Tech Tools to Work

Connecting College Campuses Through Cloud Computing

How To Turn Your Home Into An Effective Remote Learning Environment

Protecting Data Privacy In A Remote Learning Landscape

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