Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s no great overstatement to say that the Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to rollback net neutrality protections has shaken the education community’s faith in open and equitable internet access for all students. Since it began in the 1990s, E-Rate has helped bring high-speed internet access to 97 percent of U.S.

E-rate 81

E-rate Broadband Digital Divide Libraries 81

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. The curriculum they were exposed to had already proven itself ineffective—but I didn’t have access to anything better. Personalized learning is the new buzzword—edtech companies are after it and teachers toss it around as often as possible.

iPad 119

iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. I like to think that if there’s a place I want to go, I’ll be able to,” Ladd said outside McGill’s main library.

Industry 63

Industry Report Study Survey 63

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. Google buys Logitech and a whole host of media companies and university lectures. The GCars also are WiFi access points, creating massive nationwide mesh networks.

Laptops 214

Laptops Secondary Google Company 214

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In order for colleges to manage the complex financial math behind tuition discounting, many have turned to enrollment management companies that provide software to game out their strategies. The $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened in 2011. “Even though institutions will say, ‘No, no, you probably won’t pay that.’ ”.

Data 90

Data Report Strategy Study 90

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manheim Central School District (PA) Superintendent Dr. Peter Aiken said they partnered with a company to educate their staff about email threats. The company periodically sends phishing tests to staff; those that get caught clicking on the emails are given remedial lessons. Schools should also classify data (e.g.,

Strategy 54

Strategy Student Data Privacy Data Policies 54

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

District IT offices were taking on the same tasks as Fortune 500 companies without the ability to implement them as effectively. While the presenters named several reasons they chose to move to the cloud, their top reason was equitable access to edtech. First, all programs are accessible to all students and teachers.

EdTech 41

EdTech PowerMyLearning Software BYOD 41

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

EdTech 57

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 57

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

VLACS is headquartered in a former high school in Exeter, New Hampshire — a brick edifice used for a century until the town opened a new high school in 2006. Delaney volunteers at the library, works as a counselor in a nearby nature camp and teaches skiing all winter. Relationships Matter. That’s incredibly powerful.”.

Education 0

Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via The Guardian : “US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.” ” That’s the Athens-Limestone public library in Alabama (and that’s completely f *d up). The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. Child poverty is widespread: In the 50 U.S.

Elementary 98

Elementary Report Dropout System 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without — a problem known as the “homework gap.”. Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007. This issue [the ‘homework gap’] constitutes a new civil right: the right to digital equity.”.

Broadband 85

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 85

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.”

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s called “Course Access” or “Course Choice.” Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. We don’t want to lose students.

Policies 40

Policies Course Accessibility Company 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 2006, German universities were allowed to begin imposing tuition. Pausing in a corridor outside Freie Universität’s math and physics library, which looks like an alien spaceship crashed to earth, he said, “I don’t think going to university should be elitist. “So one might think that the words ‘Free University’ are redundant.

Report 40

Report Study Survey Policies 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

MOOC 40

MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.” Related via Buzzfeed : “133 Tech Companies Say Trump’s Immigration Order Is Unconstitutional.” The learn-to-code company with the derogatory name has previously raised $730,000.

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40