Sentences with phrase «internet use in the classroom»

Teachers in those schools can use e-mail or a toll - free telephone number to ask any question relating to computers and Internet use in the classroom.

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The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

In this text intended for both classroom and online learning, Chiang uses questions about our online lives to explore the technology and computer science behind the Internet, wireless, and Web industries.

Once four or five computers are available in every classroom and labs allow entire classes of students to visit and do research at any time during the school day, then the use of the Internet in our classes and schools will take off.

The program, called MarcoPolo, offers teachers free Web - based educational resources and face - to - face training in how to use the Internet in their classrooms.

Filamentality A step - by - step guide to getting on the Internet, using its resources in the classroom and publishing a site on the Web.

Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world - leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools.

With the influence of technology still growing in and outside of the classroom, this also includes the risks and dangers associated with using the internet, computers and devices.

Most students now have access to computers and the Internet in their classrooms, nearly all students have access somewhere in their schools, and a majority of teachers report using computers or the Internet for instructional purposes.

Invite students to use classroom, library, and Internet resources to match each famous Hispanic American listed on the worksheet with the brief description (in the second column) that tells what that person is noted for.

I found that most teachers felt more secure using the Internet in the lab with me or in their classroom if I was there.

For educators, online libraries offer a haven of respectability in the search for accurate and appropriate Internet resources for classroom use.

He began using the Internet in his classroom in 1985 and the World Wide Web in 1993.

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Thanks to a large grant in 2000 from BellSouth (now AT&T South), the school now has Internet access and multiple computers in every classroom, as well as a project lab with computers and a library that can accommodate heavier computer use.

Roughly 80 percent of students in classrooms that permitted laptops and tablets without restriction used an Internet - connected device during class, but only 40 percent of students in «tablet - only» classrooms used a device.

Keeping these time tested dictates in mind, the virtual classroom has been created, using the internet or intranet as the link.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

His videos offer step - by - step instructions for a range of tech topics, from creating a Web site to using Internet radio to stream music in the classroom.

But if your internet connection is slow or unreliable, or you have plans to grow your use of tablets, you need a connection that can provide you with right speeds; it's a good idea too, to get a contract that offers ease of flexibility so it's easy to change as your use of technology grows in the classroom.

«When I joined SchoolWorld,» recalls Walkowiak, «I was new to the Internet and was searching for a way to share my enthusiasm for the value of using the Internet in the classroom while demonstrating to my then grade - four students and the parent community that online publishing had its merits.»

Additionally, in an age where anyone can access the world's knowledge on the internet, how one thinks and uses what one knows has become increasingly important - creativity, critical thinking and problem - solving are all skills which can be nurtured and advanced by bringing high quality arts programs into every classroom.

Description: Sponsored by Dell, the Ypulse 2009 Totally Wired Teacher Award honors a public school teacher whos successfully using technology (the Internet / social media, mobile technology, gaming) in the classroom.

It wasn't too long ago that student use of «chatspeak» — texting shorthand, Internet slang, or even emoji — in the classroom seemed as if it might signal the end of grammar and the death of proper English.

Having decided not only to allow consumer technology into the classroom, but also to encourage its widespread use by installing a wi - fi cloud in the school via a managed wireless solution so that students can access the internet on their handheld devices, the school had to ensure that all its staff were on board and could support the school's innovative approach.

«I love using the Internet in the classroom,» Bergey said.

I see myself — a Scottish teacher living in Norway — as a global educator, using the internet to connect my classroom to students and teachers around the world.

Internet4Classrooms Internet4Classrooms is a Web portal free to any educator who wants to find high - quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction.

If you are working in a classroom where your students have internet connected devices, either through wifi or their mobile phone, using a backchannel can have a transformative impact on the way you can use technology with your students.

In the classroom, many teachers (71 percent) say they allowed students to research subjects using the internet.

During the past 20 years in particular — largely because of the rapid growth and enormous potential of the Internet — classroom technology use has garnered extraordinary attention.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

When that classroom door closes, Ms. Smith and Ms. Gonzalez can teach pretty much whatever they want, using pretty much whatever materials they want, subject only to budgetary constraints, what's in the «bookroom,» how fast are their internet connections, and what's apt to be on their pupils» end - of - year state test, which of course doesn't exist for many subjects and high school courses.

Many people see the use of the Internet in the classroom as the great democratizer.

Interviews conducted during the course of the study reveal that participants saw great potential for teachers to use DocSouth in their classrooms, since both they and their students have the requisite technology skills, the teachers already use the Internet to plan instruction and for research purposes, and perhaps most importantly, part of their goal in teaching history is to present multiple perspectives.

These interviews reveal great potential for teachers to use DocSouth in their classrooms since both they and their students have the requisite technology skills, teachers already use the Internet to plan instruction and for research, and most importantly, part of their perceived goal for teaching history is to present multiple perspectives.

It's just easier to do what you did before... An update on Internet use in secondary social studies classroom in Indiana.

One way in which the researchers and classroom teacher dealt with the Internet obstacles was by creating archives of materials (images, music, etc.) for each historical figure on CDROMs for the students to use.

You can implement a station rotation model in your classroom with just a few Internet - connected devices, even if no one else in your building is using a blended learning approach.

After completing the first methods class, before teacher candidates entered any classrooms other than through the cyber-conferencing experience, 90 % of the respondents said they employed the following technology - enhanced methods in their lessons: word processing; rhetorical, digital text analysis; digital commentary; Internet research; found and concrete poem creation generated through digital sources; image collage to analyze text; online chat; discussion boards; PowerPoint presentation; word processing and graphic organizers to facilitate multistage writing workshop; email; and multimedia projects using digital camera and video for some type of analysis.

If students have access to the internet but no reliable means to make use of it the Common Core could cause school districts to put money towards paying companies for services rather than increasing computer power that could be used to innovate in the classroom.

If you are using Study Island in your classroom, your students have access to a program that they can use anytime, from anywhere with an internet connection.

... However, only about one - third of elementary teachers in the United States felt well prepared or very well prepared to use computers and the Internet for classroom instruction, and less experienced teachers felt better prepared to use technology than their more experienced colleagues.

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The use of ICT in science learning is often limited to using the Internet as a research tool in some classrooms.

But even with access to technology and Internet connectivity, many schools still use an antiquated classroom model designed when factory work was the norm for most Americans — dozens of students in a room together, seated in rows facing the teacher, learning the same concept at the same time from a textbook that may be years out of date.

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Additionally, in an age where anyone can access the world's knowledge on the internet, how one thinks and uses what one knows has become increasingly important — creativity, critical thinking and problem - solving are all skills which can be nurtured and advanced by bringing high quality arts programs into every classroom.

The increasing use of technology, specifically the rise of the internet over the past decade, has begun to shape the way teachers approach their roles in the classroom.

As the first generation of Digital Natives (those who have not known a world without the Internet) enters our classrooms and begins teaching in the digital space, they will bring new perspectives to the use of technology and all its resources for students.