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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

In my case, as a technology teacher, it‘s from computers. Here are four lessons I learned from my computer. RAM is Random Access Memory. In the computer world, it controls how much you can work on at any given moment. That‘s what computers do. #2: Everyone wants a computer with the fastest possible processor speed.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Account Breaches Cybercriminals can deploy a variety of techniques, including hacking and credential stuffing, to unlawfully gain access to online profiles. Ransomware, for instance, can hold hostage files in your computer until you pay a ransom. Controlling who gets access to Zoom classrooms with the help of passcodes.

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JUNE 29, 2015

intuitive to use for both teachers and students, to encourage daily access. It should be non-intimidating, non-threatening, even non-geeky, so stakeholders feel as comfortable as they would in a physical classroom. full access to Google Drive. You can access it with a Google log-in. includes reminders of activities.

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JULY 24, 2024

Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. The skills used in yesterday’s physical world transfer to today’s digital world. Teachers no longer lecture from a dais with student learning contained within the schoolhouse walls.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. Then, even with that, I provide options to the preferred tool so if the student’s computer is a decade old or their WiFi is quirky, they can still complete the assignment.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

With the volume of time kids are spending online, on computers, mostly unsupervised by adults, protecting their privacy and safety has become of huge importance. Cybercriminals can access their information through an unencrypted network. Such recurrent behavior will prevent them from engaging in physical and creative activities.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

an LMS like Edmodo, Otus, or MyBigCampus–these often include an interactive gradebook, parent inclusion devices, a student discussion forum, polls, a way to collect and share resources, a class calendar, and access across a variety of digital devices. They don’t need to meet in a physical location or call each other on the phone.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Those who design our tech, she argues, are particularly prone to a brain-bound vision of the mind, forgetting that users of smartphone apps and computers are situated in bodies and move about the world in physical space with others. And that's the kind of model that dominates our education system. Yeah, I agree.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The teacher is as critical or more in an online classroom as they are in the physical class. How to I provide equity for those without computers or internet access at home is challenging? Access the required site through mobile devices. When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline.

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MARCH 24, 2015

This includes online dictionaries and thesauruses, how-to videos, and access to teacher assistance outside of class. Students are expected to decode words in class materials that they don’t understand by using quickly-accessed online vocabulary tools, or deriving meaning from affixes, roots, and context. Play is the new teaching.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

If the digital portfolio will follow students throughout their education life, it must be easily transferred year-to-year, maybe even to other physical locations and networks. If the digital portfolio is intended to be a living document that is often accessed, ease of use is important. Is ease of use important?

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

I hope we can get access to her talk and show it to students. A third is that Python is increasingly used in disciplines that are not computer science. For example the Physics and Chemistry departments are Stanford want their students to take a Python based CS1 course. Needless to say, the room was full.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 21, 2022

How many times do you ask students to raise their hand and they physically raise their hand? Raised hands and thumbs up in the physical sense are recognized by zoom with gesture recognition and translated into hands up and thumbs up in the room. New Zoom Features Announced on April 19, 2022. Real Gestures translate into room gestures.

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JULY 8, 2022

the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. allow students to join the class virtually–through Skype or Google Hangouts–if they can’t come to the physical classroom. This means they have to re-enter the lesson plan in a new format for a new LMS.

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And I ended that talk with a question: is computation ultimately what’s underneath everything in our universe?

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

What does it mean for learners to trade off the zone of proximal development for ease of access to the creation of knowledge?” When I learned to do citations as a high school student, our teacher required that we physically make the citations using index cards, even while it was possible to have a citation generator churn them out.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 22, 2022

While physical books will always hold their value especially for us millennials, the electronic versions are now the vogue. It is true that technology has radically transformed the act of reading but more importantly, it has unchained it from the geographical and physical boundaries that used to restrict it.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A liberal arts institution might gain the greatest return by putting funds toward remote guest speakers and the technology to make their presence seamless and accessible, thereby increasing the variety of speakers and events the students can attend. Interpersonal interaction is one of the most vital elements of teaching and learning.

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

We’re still at a very interesting place in the development of computer science education. A week or two in the summer is not going to cut it for CS content anymore than a week or two is enough to prepare is Physics or Chemistry teacher. We still need a lot of research on how to teach computer science. Content alone isn’t enough.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. Students and professors affiliated with most colleges have unlimited access to large collections of scholarship such as JSTOR and HeinOnline, because their institutions subscribe to site licenses.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

From desktop printers to professional online services using high-grade printers, 3D technology is becoming a valuable creative tool in many courses of study beyond 3D computer design. Data from any topological map can be reproduced accurately in the physical world.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing.

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APRIL 24, 2019

No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. Education has changed. It didn’t work.

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APRIL 2, 2020

At first glance, it seems that programmers, software developers and other tech professionals need little more than a computer with an Internet connection to develop their skills. Hunching over your computer for weeks and months to find a solution to a problem that your peers have solved long ago is counterintuitive.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Will their efforts succeed?

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 23 The Physicalized Laws of Mathematics. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. Graphical Key.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

Today’s students have access to far more knowledge than their parents once found in encyclopedias and on maps. With the click of a mouse and without leaving the classroom, they can access the collective knowledge of all mankind via the Internet. But that’s not the only way technology is making it easier for students to learn.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence? For many years, psychologists and neuroscientists have sought to uncover how the mind functions, while computer scientists have attempted to reproduce human-like capabilities in machines. Or are you smarter than computers? But does this mean they are smarter than us?

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. They have everything from computers, gaming, laptops, or even a slick wireless mouse. So pick either one.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Who could I be here?

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APRIL 19, 2023

Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. Screencasting A screencasting program enables teachers to create videos of any activity that takes place on their computer screen. Classroom activities should be handled the same.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This conversation was one of many that reminded our learners about the dangers that exist in physical and online spaces. Better yet, how are we promoting physical and online spaces that consider the complex and marginalized social identities our students hold? Though Hawai?

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MARCH 20, 2018

Desktop Computers. Today, smartphones and tablets are cheaper than ever; moreover, their prices are going to decrease which means that desktop computers, as well as computer labs, are about to become extinct in schools. Let’s see which ones won’t make it in 2018. The same thing will happen to laptops. On-Premise Software.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 6, 2025

For example: Physics students can experiment with gravity, friction, and motion in a virtual physics lab, adjusting variables in real time and observing the outcomes. Why It Matters: Provides hands-on experience in STEM subjects without requiring physical lab space. Improves concept retention and understanding of complex topics.

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MARCH 23, 2016

So not only do parents need to be allowed to access their child’s devices, they also need a complete list of usernames and passwords so that they can log in and see what is going on. Know Where They’re Physically Going, Too. It’s not all on Facebook anymore. But log into what? You have to do your homework.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. “I think we're in an uncomfortable zone, where a lot of calculus classes are serving no one,” Weissman concludes.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Maybe we know it will support our students and our teachers, so we provide access to it—but that doesn’t mean we're going to provide that district-wide.” Take physical education, for instance. It’s decidedly more satisfying to teach physical education in-person than over Zoom. And that’s not just where I am, it's everywhere.”

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