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Ed Tech Trends

How Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom

Nearly all teachers - 95 percent - are using technology in the classroom nowadays. Elementary and middle school grades dominate when it comes to tech usage. What are the most popular tools?

Video streaming beats out all others, according to a report released by Common Sense Education. Some 60 percent of teachers use video steaming services, such as YouTube, in the classroom. That's followed by productivity and presentation tools like Microsoft Office and Google G Suite for Education at 54 percent. The social media category was teachers' least favorite type of tool, with just 13 percent of teachers reporting they use social media in the classroom.

Interestingly, some of the least-used tools in the classroom are those teachers rate as most effective for engaging students in learning.

Health and wellbeing tools, used by just 25 percent of classroom teachers, were rated effective by 75 percent of respondents.

Digital creation tools, also used by 25 percent of teachers, came in with a 73 percent of respondents saying these tools are effective for engaging students in learning.

Assistive technology, used by 29 percent of educators, was rated by 69 percent of them as effective. (Unexpectedly, 24 percent of teachers said they think assistive technology gives the students who use it an "unfair" advantage over those who don't.)

Source: Common Sense Education

The report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom, polled a nationally representative sample of more than 1,200 K-12 teachers to gauge the state of education technology in America's classrooms and explore "what it takes to support teachers and prepare students as schools navigate the growing presence of technology."

Other findings included:

80 percent of teachers have computing devices in their classrooms.

40 percent have 1-to-1 devices.

Another 30 percent have devices for use by five or fewer students apiece.

16 percent reported being in BYOD classrooms. That percentage was higher in schools in affluent areas (20 percent) than non-affluent ones (13 percent).

A small but significant percentage of teachers, 12 percent, said the majority of their students did not have access to the internet or a computer at home.

The complete report, as well as a summary of key findings, can be freely accessed on Common Sense's site.

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How Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom -- THE Journal

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Giving access to students by uploading documents through google drive and sending out the links or displaying it during class that way to help with the transferring of materials. Helps give more collaboration as students can work on projects together through google drive along with making comments to the professor on assignments when not in class.

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Store, share, and collaborate on files and folders from your mobile device, tablet, or computer

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Personal Cloud Storage & File Sharing Platform - Google

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Improves the communication aspect of the class by using a user-friendly platform for communicating. It has an intelligent system that can replace common uses of informing students like emails and listservs due to it being more intentional.

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Provide students with a way to communicate with the teacher through online cues that can notify the class if a student in there a has question to make sure no one is overlooked.

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Step 1: Teachers hit the start button to start a session and get a class code.

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Step 1: Teachers hit the start button to start a session and get a class code. Step 2: Students enter their name and their teacher's class code. Step 3: When students need help, they simply click the button to add their name to the queue!

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Dr. Theresa Waldspurger teaches assessment and diversity classes in the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University.

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Feedback form is now closed. Speakers Adjunct Instructor, Appalachian State University Dr. Theresa Waldspurger teaches assessment and diversity classes in the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University.

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Create a website through Weebly in order to have all of the information for our class in one location and allow for weekly updates to be sent out to the students

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Build your website, build your success

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Weebly's free website builder makes it easy to build a website, blog, or online store. Find customizable designs, domains, and eCommerce tools for any type of business using our website builder.

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Allows the building of an effective seating arrangemnt in order fo every team in the game show to have a fair chance of winning. Analyzes different levels of maturity, reading skills, and topics discussed.

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Plan ahead: Seating Plans and effective behaviour management will help keep pupils and staff safe

Save teachers time & reduce workload with our data rich seating plans. Improve pupil behaviour with our fast and effective behaviour management.

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Class Charts has been designed by a teacher with 16 years of experience in the classroom. We know how important it is that software is simple and easy to use for your teaching team and understand the need for leadership teams to have a powerful reporting engine which gives them the information they need in seconds.

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Giving students the ability to make comments on documents before coming to class rather than doing it the day of. Having another space to store documents so that the use of a storage device is not needed in order to have a class lecture.

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Use the bouncy balls website in order to grab everyones attention in the class during moments of chaos and having an organized way of expressing the need for the class to quiet down.

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Bouncy Balls – Manage classroom noise with bouncing balls!

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