The Electric Educator

JANUARY 24, 2011

At the 2010 Virtual School Symposium sponsored by iNACOL it was clear that blended instruction is quickly becoming a viable instructional option as many states adopt seat-waver initiatives. As broadband service become increasingly common there is no reason for physical media such as DVD''s and CD''s.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. This means lower costs up-front and lower costs overall when compared to the combined costs of cellular and monthly broadband Internet service to the home. ANDERSON, T (2003). Cochrane, T.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Since 2010, five rural hospitals have closed in Mississippi alone, and almost half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing. By early April, Washington County reported two deaths from the coronavirus. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. public libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. public libraries.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. Reported percentages for quarters in 2018 appear to be similar. A different Futuresource report notes Apple is the largest connected watch vendor with 20 million units shipped in 2018, followed by Fitbit and Fossil. Apple also does well in headphones.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

More common in 2010 and 2011, the early days of the current edtech investment cycle, those deals were prevalent at a time that saw an abundance of new ideas, companies and investments. A report from BrightBytes published last fall found that the majority of app licenses purchased by districts were never used.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The South Fayette school district’s transformation began on a rainy October afternoon in 2010 when Aileen Owens, the district’s newly hired director of technology and innovation, got a call from Frank Kruth, a middle school science teacher. Computing devices and broadband Internet are abundant both inside and outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: Broadband access. Credit: Kelli Johansen for The Hechinger Report. Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. Credit: Kelli Johansen for The Hechinger Report. That compares with 85 percent nationally.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Full disclosure: Entangled Solutions, where I am a principal consultant, helped prepare the report.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. Remind co-founder Brett Kopf was replaced as CEO by Brian Grey, formerly CEO of the Bleacher Report. These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). Funding has shrunk. Layoffs at Treehouse (20% of staff).

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

And here’s how it differs from the one that Obama issued in 2010. Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” The allegations center on reports that Paris, through inappropriate means, asked legislators to provide state funds to the college, a Christian institution in Arkansas.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. “Progress,” the FCC boasted in the report. ” Among them: an $8.71

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

trillion infrastructure bill that endeavors to put people to work by addressing historic discrimination, climate change, broadband access, and labor rights — on top of building and repairing roads and bridges. The post COLUMN: Higher education is the key to the new infrastructure system we need appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. It has some 2500 “beta testers,” Edsurge reported in February.

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