Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Prior to the 2014 Modernization Orders that transformed the E-rate program, all up-front, non-recurring costs over $500,000 had to be amortized over the life of the contract including items like construction costs for new fiber-optic circuits.

E-rate 45

E-rate Technology Policies Education 45

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

We live in a world where learning and technology are intrinsically linked, especially in the minds of our youth. Is there a correlation between technology use and plummeting literacy rates? Technology can engage students and enhance their literacy skills. They modernized it, as if Rosa Parks lived in 2020.

Technology 145

Technology E-rate Analysis Data 145

Neo LMS

APRIL 8, 2021

At Kansas State University, academic integrity violations jumped from 97 cases in the 2019 fall semester to 238 cases in the online-only 2020 spring semester. At University in Florida, compared to the 2019 spring semester, academic integrity violations increased by 65% in the 2020 semester.

E-rate 228

E-rate LMS Learning Assessment 228

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

In the year 2020, amid a global pandemic, millions of American students are struggling to get online to do their schoolwork and communicate with others. The technology exists and is available to bridge this gap. It is time that Congress and the FCC allow E-rate support of off-campus educational activities.

E-rate 191

E-rate Accessibility Libraries Learning 191

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This year’s 7th most-read story focuses on the myriad ways technology is changing literacy instruction. We live in a world where learning and technology are intrinsically linked, especially in the minds of our youth. Is there a correlation between technology use and plummeting literacy rates? They wrote the play.

Technology 113

Technology E-rate Analysis Data 113

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

To inform the Federal Communications Commission in evaluating and refreshing the vitality of the $4 billion program, Funds For Learning announces its eighth annual E-rate Applicant Survey. April 25, 2018) – The Modernization Order that expanded federal E-rate funding to include broadband and internet services will expire in 2020.

E-rate 40

E-rate Survey Broadband Learning 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In a report released earlier this year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation contended that American children are “in the midst of a mental health crisis” spurred in no small part by the coronavirus health crisis, with childhood rates of depression and anxiety ballooning compared to figures from before the pandemic. The Annie E.

E-rate 154

E-rate Report STEM Accessibility 154

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey finds homeschooling rates have more than doubled during the pandemic. The Census Bureau finds that between spring 2020 and fall 2020, the percentage of U.S. households in April/May and September/October 2020. Two surveys make it look that way. percent to 11.1 percent to 16.1

E-rate 155

E-rate STEM Survey Conference 155

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

A critical finding is that school districts that are meeting the 1 Mbps per student goal are also getting access at a much lower rate than those districts not meeting that benchmark,” said Emily Jordan, Vice President of Education Initiatives, CN. “In Key points: U.S. million students, an increase of over 5 million students since 2022.

Meeting 97

Meeting E-rate Digital Divide Comparison 97

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of life, how school districts leveraged technology, engaged students in powerful learning, and supported learners and their families fundamentally shifted. The new cohort extends the network’s reach to 125 districts across 34 states, and expands its cumulative impact to 3.8

Advocacy 416

Advocacy E-rate Digital Divide Meeting 416

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering. For instance, prior to COVID-19, Section 12100.8

Broadband 146

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 146

Neo LMS

MAY 28, 2020

A version of this post was originally published in the April 2020 E-Learning Supplement of Education Today. Inevitably, education technology — in all its shapes and sizes — is a big part of any distance learning strategy, as it’s the actual enabler of learning. Challenging.

LMS 334

LMS Learning E-rate Gamification 334

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2024

Protective Effect Against Cognitive Decline and Dementia : Bilingualism has a moderate protective effect on the age of onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms and contributes to cognitive reserve (Anderson, Hawrylewicz, Grundy, 2020). Bialystok, E. Bialystok, E. Bialystok, E., link] Bialystock, E. Craik, F.I.M.,

E-rate 112

E-rate Study Analysis Assessment 112

Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2023

However, as industry and technology have evolved rapidly, inadequate higher education funding and rising costs due to inflation have affected higher education’s responsiveness. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success.

Industry 180

Industry Education E-rate Conference 180

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It estimates another 4,300 districts could be upgraded in the 2020-21 academic year. Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. It has also created a nifty visual dashboard with state-by-state drill downs.

Broadband 169

Broadband Report Video EdTech 169

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference Advocacy 150

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 2, 2020

One of the sites badly damaged was Moore Public Schools’ (MPS) technology center – the technology hub for 24,000 students and 36 instructional buildings across the district. The district’s technology director, Jun Kim, knew the internal Wi-Fi network needed an upgrade even before the tornado.

Digital Learning 93

Digital Learning E-rate BYOD Secondary 93

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

federal government’s E-Rate program, which provides “universal service” funding to schools and libraries for telecommunications and internet, also said it wouldn’t pay for another project. The reservation has a high poverty rate, affecting about 70 percent of students in the area by Mills’ estimate. Early on, the U.S.

Broadband 129

Broadband E-rate Accessibility Company 129

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Today’s students see themselves as digital natives , the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers certainly acknowledge the growing influence of technology and have responded in kind. Students first rated their medium preferences.

E-rate 211

E-rate Learning Smartphone Tablets 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. A growing number of technology companies are creating last-mile training opportunities to eliminate a key barrier to their own growth.

Training 182

Training Company E-rate Software 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

based tutoring company that serves mostly American children, during the height of the pandemic in 2020, just in case something ever fell through with VIPKid—and because Outschool was heating up, she says. The e-card templates VIPKid created for teachers to tell their Chinese students goodbye. But I have other things now.”

E-rate 166

E-rate Company Course Industry 166

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 14, 2020

With this achievement, EducationSuperHighway will sunset on August 31, 2020 but we want to ensure state leaders, school district administrators, and the broadband community have the data they need to continue upgrading their broadband to meet the needs of students and teachers.

Broadband 59

Broadband E-rate Learning Data 59

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Before the 2020 pandemic, relatively few students attended hybrid, or fully virtual, schools. Courses are taught—remotely and often asynchronously—by highly-paid master teachers who leverage adaptive learning technologies that build an individualized learning path for your child. Department of Defense.

Education 218

Education Company E-rate Industry 218

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

In order to provide direct feedback to the FCC and understand how E-rate funding can best serve applicants, Funds For Learning releases its annual E-Rate Trends Report. Applicant survey results reveal that schools and libraries remain reliant on E-rate funding to provide and sustain broadband connectivity.

Trends 40

Trends E-rate Report Broadband 40

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Globally, edtech spending is predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020.

EdTech 176

EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The problems with privacy range from fundamental questions of definition and scope, to questions of equity and inclusion, to intensely technical questions about law and technology. in library, archival, and information science from The University of British Columbia in 2020. In his work, Souvick loves using technology for social good.

Libraries 85

Libraries Conference Data E-rate 85

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The problems with privacy range from fundamental questions of definition and scope, to questions of equity and inclusion, to intensely technical questions about law and technology. in library, archival, and information science from The University of British Columbia in 2020. In his work, Souvick loves using technology for social good.

Libraries 71

Libraries Conference Data E-rate 71

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Narine Hall, data science assistant professor and academic program director at Champlain College,and leading software and video engineer Haykanush Lputyan, launchedInSpace in 2020, sparked by frustrations with how existing virtual meeting platforms limited student-teacher interactions. and Armenia. Educator Testimonials.

Video 85

Video Education E-rate Company 85

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

On top of that, knowing we’ve got an equity gap that exists in our district and that about 1,200 of our kids don’t even have access [to technology and the internet] was a tough pill to swallow. Sitka School District prepares for meals on April 7, 2020. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots.

Digital Divide 255

Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 255

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. There are many reasons why the federal government, as well as the technology and communications sector, should step up and eliminate the digital divide — but none more important or urgent than ensuring that students can continue their educations, from primary school to college.

Broadband 112

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Libraries 112