Sentences with phrase «students use digital tools»

Social and educational priorities are oftentimes at odds when students use digital tools outside of school, prompting many parents to keep a closer eye on such use.

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What makes the use of technology especially powerful is how digital tools can connect students with readers, listeners, and viewers of their work.

Showing older students how to use the Google search engine tools (http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/#0vBxYjxrxsqb) as well as how to use your library's digital learning databases are important steps to preparing our students to learn how to find quality information with ease.

Despite students of the digital age can truly benefit from implementing new technology in their learning, teachers don't take advantage of being able to assist students with classroom recordings, online forums, and using online tools commonly implemented in other educational institutions.

Digital IS, a site published by the National Writing Project, shares plans for three projects that take time to honor students» home languages and cultures, engaging them in critical thinking, collaboration, and use of digitalDigital IS, a site published by the National Writing Project, shares plans for three projects that take time to honor students» home languages and cultures, engaging them in critical thinking, collaboration, and use of digitaldigital tools.

The digital tools many students have access to both inside and outside the classroom require us all to take a hard look at the way we use these tools in the context of learning experiences.

Since the students have been asked to prepare a digital learning guide, they are required to use tech tools effectively and creatively.

Digital whiteboard options also are a great tool to allow students to use at the end of a class to show their learning for the day as well.

New tools are emerging all the time, many not originally intended for education, but which can be put to good use by students and teachers alike to extent opportunities, enhance learning potential and develop the level of digital literacy that students will need for the 21st century.

Another option is to use an augmented reality creation tool to build an AR experience that shows off students» digital math projects.

Science and environmental educators have long promoted the use of student versions of the same tools scientists employ, such as temperature probes connected to laptops, global - positioning and geographic - information systems to track species, digital cameras and microscopes, and statistical software to analyze data.

In an online survey by the Pew Research Center on the impact of digital tools on students» writing, half the teachers who responded said that digital tools made it easier for students to write and that when using digital tools, students were more engaged and motivated to write.

In addition, teachers can educate students on how to use digital tools such as Grammarly, SAS Writing Reviser, or word processing features to ensure a grammatically correct paper.

To develop students» abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools.

One of the challenges of using digital tools to connect the schools in our district is the time it takes to familiarize our teachers and students with a new tool.

In both cases, use of different digital tools helps to develop students» persistence.

Join your fellow district leaders this fall at the Education Week Leadership Forum Ed Tech 2013: Powering Up Success — an interactive day focused on how to use digital tools to raise student achievement.

«I have seen first - hand the importance of fun, easy - to - use creativity tools in the classroom, and believe that Adobe Spark will enhance how educators teach digital and creative - problem solving skills to open up a range of new possibilities for students who want to express themselves,» said Mala Sharma, VP and GM of Creative Cloud product marketing & engagement at Adobe.

Here we want to second his point and add another: schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers.

Digital tools can also connect excellent teachers working live with students across the hall, state, or nation — using web cameras and email.

The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.

«Our goal is to enable students to use GIS like any other digital tool, such as Microsoft Word or an Excel spreadsheet,» says Balabanian.

Increasingly, institutes of higher education are collaborating with K - 12 teachers to help them use digital tools to get at - risk students excited about learning.

Although teachers would still be able to make use of digital tools, new privacy laws could place onerous reporting and disclosure requirements on technology vendors regardless of their size, as well as restrictions on people's ability to study tools» effectiveness over time and vendors» own ability to evolve their products based on student performance data.

Thinking Critically through Digital Media enables teachers to use authentic materials and digital tools combined with motivating communicative tasks to develop students» abilities to function as critical and well informed digital ciDigital Media enables teachers to use authentic materials and digital tools combined with motivating communicative tasks to develop students» abilities to function as critical and well informed digital cidigital tools combined with motivating communicative tasks to develop students» abilities to function as critical and well informed digital cidigital citizens.

«Information that you find in course books is outdated, I want to empower my students using different digital tools,» she says.

92, Ed.D.» 99, and Ponsford provide a clear blueprint that educators of all experience levels can use to help transform their classrooms by adding new digital and web tools to meet the specific needs of students.

Convincing them to use digital tools to teach their students is slower than we would like.»

Going beyond simply emailing a document or copying a piece of paper, digital notes can become a collaborative experience — especially when students use tools such as Google Keep and OneNote that allow multiple people to write on the same note at the same time.

As for digital education companies: If digital tools enable teachers to earn more for reaching more students and their peers, teachers will gain a stake in acquiring those tools and using them to achieve strong outcomes.

«Students in about fourth or fifth grade — sometimes younger — are capable of using Web - based publishing tools to build digital portfolios.»

This allows the teacher to focus on the subject content rather than on ensuring the digital tools chosen for a task can be used efficiently by students in the class.

While Summit students spend most of their time working on projects, 20 percent of the day is devoted to Personalized Learning Time (PLT), during which students learn academic content, choosing the digital tools they'll use to meet their goals.

Even though nearly every school in the country is now connected to the Internet, not all of them have the kind of connections that allow teachers and students to make full use of digital learning tools.

More schools are using digital data - analysis tools to spotlight, share, and respond to information on student achievement at a schoolwide level.

Professor David Rose when asked what advice he would give to educators interested in using more multimedia or digital tools to cater to individual students» needs.

Schools all over the world are using digital tools to help students collaborate and build cultural understanding with distant peers.

Technology Counts 2013: Building the Digital District takes a major step in outlining the barriers educators and policymakers are facing, and how they are moving beyond them, in building schools that maximize the use of digital tools to improve student achieDigital District takes a major step in outlining the barriers educators and policymakers are facing, and how they are moving beyond them, in building schools that maximize the use of digital tools to improve student achiedigital tools to improve student achievement.

With Drawp for School, students can use a variety of digital creation tools to make a shareable product.

Studies suggest that 1:1 programs slightly improved students» writing and seemed to improve students» skills in using digital tools; there was some evidence that 1:1 programs very slightly improved students» scores on high - stakes tests.

They gave countless examples of the creative ways they use emerging digital tools to impart writing skills to today's students.»

In this blog post for the Innosight Institute (now the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation), Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel argue that «schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers.»

For students needing to access the millions of words in the English language, this app is an invaluable digital learning tool and can be used without an Internet connection.

Personalized Learning: How are schools using digital tools to customize learning based on students» strengths and weaknesses?

Students may use camera tool in Minecraft to create digital portfolio of their works and create Office Mixes that explains detailly.

Students in graphic arts use iMacs and Adobe software tools to create digital magazines, newsletters, and edit photos taken during our newly formed and extremely popular Digital Photography digital magazines, newsletters, and edit photos taken during our newly formed and extremely popular Digital Photography Digital Photography course.

BYOD Policy Shift: What steps are districts taking to allow students to use their own digital devices as learning tools?

Designed specifically for K - 12 teachers and students, Canvas is an easy - to - use, cloud - based learning management system (LMS) that connects all the digital tools and resources teachers use into one simple place.

Using state - of - the - art tools like Michael Fullan's Digital Innovation Index, we'll guide you every step of the way as you integrate top - notch instructional and assessment strategies to ensure every student becomes a successful 21st century global citizen.

English teachers are the most likely to use collaborative online platforms with their students, and are more likely than teachers of other subjects to say digital tools increase the likelihood students will revise and edit their work.