eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Then there was the $95 million payroll system snafu back in 2008. Click through to listen for some big-picture analysis of the survey results you can scroll below: Project Tomorrow recently released data on how connected digital learning devices have benefited families in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

There was a huge “give one, get one” campaign in Christmas 2007 and again in Christmas 2008 where people could buy one of these laptops for themselves and pay twice as much for it, and one got sent overseas, many of them ended up in Haiti. So if we didn't have cloud computing, Chromebooks still wouldn't be very useful.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. .” The company has raised some $77.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples. Indeed, many school buildings lacked high-speed internet access.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 120

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.” Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability?”

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