eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2023

schools since 2016. But even though students have returned to the classroom post-pandemic, just like every other industry, the K-12 threat landscape isn’t slowing down. Estimates from the nonprofit organization K12 Security Information Exchange reveal more than 1,300 publicly disclosed cyberattacks against U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

To the relief of the world, education has mostly returned to the classroom after the pandemic mandated distance and hybrid learning. Now, along with paper notebooks and colored pencils, classroom supply lists include technology as essential learning materials. Department of Education, 2016).

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child. However, the data only tells part of the story.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica, was a corporation that used Facebook data and had permission to look at about a quarter million accounts, but because of the way Facebook sets itself up, whenever you give permission to Facebook, you’re also basically giving permission for Facebook to look at your friends. Vicki: Yeah. Vicki: Yeah.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Along with a 1:1 goal, comes the deluge of edtech tools, software, and applications into classrooms. Data Analytics. Data empowers school districts to make informed technology decisions that impact student success, Draper explains. Data Privacy. Professional Development.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. This connectivity issue, coined “The Homework Gap” by the FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel, means that many of the children sitting in our classrooms lose access – and therefore opportunity – the moment they leave our schools.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces (2016) by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green Cross-posted from Learning Light Bulbs by Nate Gildart Get your own copy of Classroom Management in the Digital Age! The nature of classrooms has. My personal thoughts are in italics.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald While Blaine is a fictional student, the technology that’s tracking him is real, and actually in use in some school systems, part of a growing set of tools that leave data trails about students throughout the day. Blaine scans his ID and enters the classroom. The bus drops Blaine and his classmates off at 8:30 am.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and even cell phones are providing students with opportunities to access the internet for researching, communicating and social learning. Classroom teachers are embracing the technology as a means to provide immediate feedback, assess student understanding and interact with both parents and students.

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. Most students find web filtering to be unnecessarily inhibitive, citing that it blocks perfectly acceptable web pages due to one keyword or denies access to social media pages.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning Jessie Woolley-Wilson (CEO, DreamBox Learning): In the past, educators were focused on how to get more devices in the classroom. Students no longer have to “power down” when they enter a classroom.

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techlearning

JUNE 1, 2018

I started that school year with one goal: to take what students loved and incorporate it into the classroom. It is 2016 and I’m just starting my current job at Fair Haven. FH Gizmos launched in May of 2016. The next school year, 2016-2017, we made about a $100, but FH Gizmos also got an amazing email.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Like Kerpoof , thousands of educators are scrambling to replace a fundamental tool that was to be an integral part of their 2016-17 lesson plans. Share on social media or via email. Viewers can interact with the data you’ve linked. When done, share with email, an Educreations link, or via social media.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

The model combines paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction. Multiverse— founded in London in 2016 under the name WhiteHat by the son of a former U.K. Prime Minister—reported in January raising $44 million to bring apprenticeships in data, software engineering, digital marketing and project management to the U.S.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Twitter Analytics and Instagram Insights show me data about my social media posts. Social Media ?? 50 back to school activities for the remote learning classroom from @DitchThatTxtbk 6 sections. ????? Preparing your classroom ?? Link to Google Classroom ?? Newsletters ?? Lotto Scratchers ??

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. If this doesn’t get you thinking about the security risks of schools collecting and managing sensitive data, I’d submit you may not be paying close enough attention. " Tagged on: September 6, 2017 More Or Less Technology In The Classroom? . "Don't

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. If this doesn’t get you thinking about the security risks of schools collecting and managing sensitive data, I’d submit you may not be paying close enough attention. " Tagged on: September 6, 2017 More Or Less Technology In The Classroom? . "Don't

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Conferences, like classrooms, are no longer closed spaces.).

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ASIDE

JULY 18, 2019

Source: ASIDE 2019 Mapping challenges learners to think, develop literacy skills, and understand the complexity of global issues, design, and data. There is a direct correlation between the act of making a map and the knowledge acquired by doing it.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When it comes to ensuring the right for all to read, we face a challenging journey: According to the latest data from UNESCO, there remain 750 million people around the world who cannot read and write. Two thirds of them are female. ILA 2018, The Case for Children’s Rights to Read.).

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She stayed with her Facebook group method her first two years of teaching there, but stopped once the school started using Google Classroom. She explains that the quizzes that can gather someone’s data usually show up on personal feeds, not on group pages. Opting out of social media, he says, isn’t ever really an option for people.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 1, 2021

As former educators themselves, they can offer their ST Math expertise and classroom experience to ensure learning never stops. He married the movie's director in 2016 on the Monday after Thanksgiving to have a flexible anniversary and a long weekend off work to celebrate each year. James Masterton. It’s called Chatty Catties.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Dr. Robb has written more than 25 books on reading but also takes 3-4 months each school year as a classroom teacher. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your feedback on social media. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

2016 has been a busy year for data privacy advocates. Pokemon Go launched its wildly popular location-based and data-hungry augmented reality game. And at least 14 states have passed student data privacy laws, so far. E: Is California the strictest state in the nation when it comes to public schools and data privacy?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

The second annual Student Technology Conference, a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, is tomorrow, Saturday, January 30, 2016 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm US-EST. She is also keenly interested in big data, especially related to consumer and social media applications.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2017

However, his LinkedIn profile shows that he left Amazon in October of 2016. But making assumptions about a student’s potential based on data alone comes with its own set of risks, explains Manuela Ekowo, a policy analyst with New America. But 76 percent of kids prefer to get their news from social media (especially from Facebook).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Welcome to another article in a series devoted to facilitating proper student internet interaction in the classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. interactive tool for classroom use. Educational Tools: The Web in the Classroom…Part 2. Vetting Web 2.0

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. Source: Checking In: Do Classrooms Assignments Reflect Today’s Standards? According to a 2016 study, only a third of third to eighth grade teachers have taken a college class specifically about how to teach writing.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The GaDOE Social Studies team had the foresight to launch professional learning communities on edWeb in 2016, so their programs were in place when the pandemic hit, creating a successful, sustainable solution for personalized PD before and during the pandemic, and beyond. Why did we start communities on edWeb virtually in 2016?

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Our data suggests that CIOs are less part of academic decision-making than we would hope,” he adds. How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey.

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Learning in Hand

JANUARY 1, 2020

Twitter Analytics and Instagram Insights show me data about my social media posts. Strategies for ensuring that students feel like they’re part of the classroom community from @edutopia , including. ?? A simple strategy for increasing student agency in your classroom is to provide students with a choice board of options.to

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. Keeler has more than 50 tips for Google Classroom under her belt, with an e-book on that series in progress.

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