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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. link] Martell, C.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. Tablet computers didn’t take off until a decade later.

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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

Edsurge

And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. We were talking about tablets, games, books and other kinds of services. And only a few companies could afford enough salespeople out there in enough places where they can meet with the schools in their territory.

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Humanizing technology

Learning With Lucie

Not because of the coolness factor, but because I felt that I would now be able to be in a meeting with someone without the screen/keyboard of our computers creating an artificial barrier/wall. Remember that this was in 2003, several years before iPads and other tablet computing had been invented).

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Technology’s Impact on Student Learning: Insights from the Speak Up 2022 Congressional Briefing

edWeb.net

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

According its January 2017 report, the FCC’s modernization push enabled some 77% of school districts to meet the minimum federal connectivity targets by the end of 2016; just 30% had met those requirements in 2013. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution.

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