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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. 78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life.

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These schools are leveraging E-Rate for a complete digital transformation

eSchool News

Textbooks and blackboards have become a thing of the past in K-12 schools as educators collaborate with IT teams to shape a full digital core curriculum as part of their educational strategy for 2017 and beyond. billion in 2017.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Cambridge Analytica was able to take that quarter million accounts that it had permission to look at from Facebook and mine fifty million accounts to look at trends and how people thought about politics and then potentially use that to move the 2016 election in different ways. Vicki: Yeah.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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Why Getting Help for Kids with Dyslexia is Difficult

MindShift

Dayne Guest graduated from high school in 2016. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. Think of children sitting in front of a blackboard, sounding out words as a teacher points to the letters that represent each sound. Students at or above proficient reading level.

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A new teacher vows to help in a classroom full of need: “Under the right conditions, they’d be stars”

The Hechinger Report

early 40 years ago, when Molière was in fourth grade at Jefferson Davis Elementary School in eastern New Orleans, she was screened and found eligible for the district’s gifted and talented program. A part of me knows that under the right conditions they’d be stars.”. I’m driven by that. But I also know I can become overwhelmed by it.”.

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The ‘Bad News Guy’ of K-12 Cybersecurity on a Grim Milestone — and His Next Project

Edsurge

In an interview with EdSurge, Levin dives into the details of recent attacks, and how the state of K-12 cybersecurity has evolved since he started tracking these incidents in 2016. Levin: Late in 2016, I started seeing reports from local news sources about school cybersecurity incidents—in particular, W-2 form phishing attacks.

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