eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

These four lessons learned from this past year really get into the subconscious to discover how we feel about AI in our schools. In Steve Jobs’ memorable 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he shared a story about “connecting the dots.” The AI revolution happened because of COVID. Flash-forward to March of 2020.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. Today there are a whole bunch of teachers out there using Chromebooks, and you'll see these maybe even in some universities too, which are these very low-end devices.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

When the school introduced Chromebooks a couple years ago, they knew it was important to build a culture of responsibility around technology and teach the fundamentals of digital citizenship. Jennifer continued on to explain the components of digital citizenship and how they apply to the students. WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. McKneely quickly discovered that the share of families who lacked Wi-Fi, laptops and other tools necessary to participate in remote learning was even greater than anticipated – some 40 percent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning. weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Their message is crystal clear.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told.

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