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

Edsurge

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

With the help of technology you can connect with families from the comfort of their homes. Many schools maintain a private Facebook group to communicate with families, keep them up-to-date on events, and build a school community. 2004, November). Journal of School Psychology. Redding, S., Langdon, J., Meyer, J., & Sheley, P.

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Rave Mobile Safety Launches Rave Collaborate for Tactical Incident Collaboration

eSchool News

In addition to task management, reminders and activity tracking, Rave Collaborate is integrated into Rave Alert , a proven, industry-leading mass notification system, as well as other communication and IoT technologies, to provide a central platform to manage your organization’s preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation needs.

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New Data from Rave Mobile Safety Shows Schools’ Top Safety Concerns About Returning to the Classroom

eSchool News

Rave surveyed more than 270 respondents who identified as K-12 school administrators, school resource/safety officers, superintendents and teachers, as well as staff who work in communications technology and facilities and operations in June and July 2020. Facebook. About Rave Mobile Safety. Let Rave enable you to do all you can?today

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How to Resolve Entrepreneurship’s Split Personality Problem

EdNews Daily

Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg completely changed the way people interact with friends and family by launching Facebook in 2004. Fast-forward a century, and cars are woven into the fabric of society. The site grew from a small network of members to a massive 1.86 billion monthly active users ( [link] ) by the end of 2016.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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