Image Credit: chanpipat / Shutterstock Did you know that the average American student spends 1025 hours in the classroom each year? And of that, 308 hours are lost to interruptions! That’s about 1 out of every 5 minutes are spent consumed by “anticipated interruptions” – transitions, materials distribution, and starting or ending class. What if new tools could help teachers get these hours back? Each minute teachers spend managing large group procedures takes away from time they could be spending on the hard work of teaching, such as differentiating instruction or developing students’ socio-emotional skills. Connected devices, an emerging trend in computing technology, may offer the potential to relieve teachers of some of this administrative burden, allowing more time to focus on students’ learning needs. By embedding internet connectivity in everyday devices, the “Internet of Things” connects our physical and virtual worlds, enabling computers to provide real-time insights without requiring user input. As students take their seats, for example, attendance could be logged automatically using a device such as the Nymi, a wearable “smartband” that …
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