The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

19, 2021 to eliminate the essay portion of the SAT may have delighted millions of current and future high school students but its discontinuation could also be a loss for students of color and those whose primary language isn’t English. The College Board’s decision on Jan. It’s not often that I feel sympathy for the College Board.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 11, 2013

Google SMS provided a great way for students to learn right from their phones. Sadly, now they are gone. Google's decision to streamline their services, unfortunately leaves behind so many of our students who don't have access to the internet. Fortunately, in the world of Web 2.0

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

However, the landscape is ever-changing; even Jamboard— a digital whiteboarding mainstay by Google— is discontinuing. As online learning and remote classrooms become more prevalent, these new digital tools offer a fresh perspective on brainstorming and visualizing ideas.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Remind Tutoring will be discontinued so that the newly-combined company can focus solely on family and community engagement through communication. The app allows teachers to easily connect with students and families in their preferred language, all while keeping their personal phone number private.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Meanwhile, the California State Library recommended that its users discontinue Lynda.com when it fully merges with LinkedIn Learning if it institutes the changes. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We don’t have time to vet every video now, and we don’t trust that it’s been vetted [by them], so we’re out,” Ragsdale says of her district’s decision to discontinue the program. “Could there be something else? We don’t know. Alameda Unified School District, outside of Oakland, Calif.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company discontinued the Rift headset this year after lackluster sales, though it now sells a VR headset called Oculus Quest 2 that it says is selling better (though the company has not released sales figures). It seemed at times more like some optimistic ride at a World’s Fair or at Disneyworld than a sales pitch.

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EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Another option is to sell it to a liquidator — a liquidator is a company that buys overstocked or discontinued products and sells them at a deeply discounted price. To get rid of your dead stock, you can run a clearance sale or offer a discount to customers who purchase a certain amount of product. For SaaS business.

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Vizor

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Why was Google Grab and Go discontinued? Grab and Go loaners appeared particularly useful for schools, providing students with a lost, damaged or uncharged device with a friction less loaner replacement. Under the covers, GnG loaners was implemented as a Google App Engine (GAE) application and a Chrome App that ran on each ChromeOS device.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2019

That same day, the California State Library recommended that its users discontinue Lynda.com when it fully merges with LinkedIn Learning if it institutes the changes. Currently, to access Lynda.com in a library, a person logs in using their library card and a PIN.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2020

She stressed that the plan is to discontinue the tracing effort as soon as the pandemic is under control. Hawkins, of Oklahoma State, says the university is taking extra steps to safeguard data used in the project and to follow federal student privacy and medical privacy laws.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 5, 2020

In some cases this has happened when students acted inappropriately online, resulting in teachers who responded by discontinuing their online instruction altogether. We don’t want inappropriate digital citizenship to impede sound teaching, learning, and relationship building. You never know where your face is going to end up right now.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Five years after the academy started, edX had archived most of its more than a dozen courses , essentially discontinuing them. As of fall 2019, only a tiny percentage of the hundreds of thousands of people who enrolled in these courses paid to receive college credit, and fewer than 150 pursued full degrees at ASU.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Regular Updates: Keep the list up to date by continuously evaluating apps, removing discontinued ones, and adding new, approved ones. With Lightspeed Digital Insight, IT and Curriculum staff can do so through integrations with 1EdTech’s TrustEd Apps Program , and the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC).

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Google Spaces , a products that most of my readers probably haven't even heard of, will be discontinued on April 17, 2017. and discontinue unpopular products (Spaces, Research tool, hangout apps). Spaces was developed as a organizational tool for teams. It has elements of Google Keep, Classroom, and Drive rolled into one.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

The essay portion of the SAT wasn’t part of the student’s score and has since been discontinued. For those who are curious about writing, students in the study tended to produce a better essay on paper than on computers. High-achieving fourth graders wrote better on computers while low-achieving fourth graders wrote better on paper.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2018

Cultural mores have morphed because of technology, leaving a discontinuity between the old and the new. I think you’ll enjoy her article: We live in a millennium where technology has disrupted many of the traditional systems and ways.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Sometimes the answer is offering to provide support to just a few holdouts of an older tool while otherwise discontinuing support, said Wu. That puts pressure on a college’s tech support to continue supporting old technology no matter how many new tools they add to their list.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In a letter to Purdue Global faculty Wednesday, the university’s chancellor, Betty Vandenbosch, said that “effective immediately, the practice of requiring a standalone agreement on these matters will be discontinued at Purdue Global.”

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ProfHacker

JULY 1, 2016

Even though the program was discontinued (public schools, budget cuts, “that’s not on the Common Core”) it was massively influential on him, especially since he gets dragged to museums everywhere.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

We are thankful for those who broadcast the news and the broadband providers that have opened their networks, lifted data caps and fees, and promised not to discontinue service. We are grateful, too, for those who keep communications up and running.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 11, 2012

As a result of that, we have decided to discontinue our Zoho Planner service. From time to time we need to review our wide portfolio of services, and make sure they are performing to our, and our customers'', expectations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

These toys would be discontinued the following year—around the time that the company laid off part of its staff. Despite selling more than 3 million of these Disney-branded robots, the company decided at the end of 2017 that “going after the toy market wasn’t the business we wanted to be in,” says Berberian.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 10, 2016

The policy language is dry and vague, but dig in and you’ll see why we’re discussing it: RPD 20-XX, II B states: “Educational considerations are related in part to regular program review, and reflect a long-range judgment that the educational mission of the institution as a whole will be enhanced by program discontinuance.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

For a while the state was using a product called My Big Campus for the job, but that service was discontinued in 2015. “It’s something that teachers feel very comfortable with because most people know how to use Amazon,” she says. “We We also didn’t feel like it was a fly-by-night kind of operation.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I will admit that Google’s continue discontinuation and finally their cancelling of Google Reader caused me to swap to WordPress for my blog. If this is the start of a greater trend, then Twitter may well be sowing the seeds of its own destruction. Unintended Consequences. Sure, Google has a right to make money and so does Twitter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

A–Yes, back in the day, but they’ve been discontinued. It was clear from Q&A after the presentation that students were listening and understanding. One particularly great question: Q–Are there bills larger than $100? I didn’t know that.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

CLEAR WiMAX towers will be decommissioned and service to all CLEAR/Sprint devices will be discontinued. As Sprint improves its 4G LTE network throughout the U.S., Service to those devices will end on Nov.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In fact, they are discontinuing the Bammy Awards as we know it. The Bammys are putting a deliberate discontinuation to what many knew these awards to be. Many knew the Bammys to be about winners, but as the organizers pointed out before the most recent awards: There Will Be No Winners at the Bammy Awards.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Consolidating resources, leveraging purchasing power, discontinuing funding for outdated equipment and supplies, combined with prioritizing the digital conversation can be difficult, yet is a vital part of the redesigning process. For more information, check out how to ‘ Equip Your School for the 21st-Century with a Solid Foundation.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 24, 2022

Now that the Expeditions app has been discontinued and the technology of individual headsets has evolved teachers are a little lost as to what’s next. Many educators hear AR and VR but then immediately consider the expense and practicality of it. Jamie is here to share free options without the major learning curve for teachers. .

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 3, 2019

Aside from providing affirmation for Black girls and women, we also posit that this process can inform teachers and other students to the nuances that distinguish the realities of Black girls from their teachers and peers that can lead to cultural discontinuity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 31, 2017

As one student wrote in her journal recently, “While I have been a little afraid to sing out loud since I discontinued musical theater, these kids have encouraged me to let my voice be heard no matter what it sounds like. The students sing, dance and drum alongside the people they are sent to “help.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Sioux Falls Planned Parenthood clinic — the state’s sole abortion provider — discontinued its abortion services last year following the state’s ban. More than half of the state’s counties have no OB-GYNs , and rural South Dakotans with high-risk pregnancies often have no choice but travel to Sioux Falls for specialty care.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

As the industry shifts toward paid “nanodegrees,” the future of the free, open course looks uncertain, even as the company says they have no immediate plans to discontinue them. What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For example, if we try and apply a new practice and find it successful, our beliefs can shift so that we are discontinuing the less innovative practice. Fortunately, beliefs and practices are intertwined. One influences the other.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s why as a community organizer for Stand for Children and a product of Portland Public Schools myself, I welcomed the district’s decision earlier this month to discontinue the presence of SROs.

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